Railway

  HARTING has introduced a number of innovative connector solutions and products targeted at the rail industry and focusing on the three key benefits of weight reduction, easy handling and increasing data throughput.

  The new Han Gigabit Module from HARTING is the first modular industrial connector designed to meet the rail industry’s growing need for high-speed communication based on the Cat.7A cabling standard on-board rail vehicles. 

The new Program 1000 stainless steel quarter-turn latch from EMKA uses an externally mounted C shaped catch and insert type spanner lock in conformity with RIC for Railway use outside the sealing gasket on enclosures and cabinets. By mounting outside the cabinet frame and outside the gasketing area, panel builders may be confident that the lock installation ensures integrity of the housing as the sealed area is not compromised in any way.

 The latest addition to RECOM’s railway portfolio are two 40 and 60W DC/DC converter series in quarter-brick packages with an ultra-wide input voltage range from 14 to 160VDC making them a universal solution for railway rolling stock applications and high voltage battery systems.

Axiomtek UST500-517-FL, a transportation embedded PC for vehicle and railway markets. The rugged UST500-517-FL is powered by the LGA1151 socket 7th/6th generation Intel Core and Pentium processors up to 65W with the Intel Q170 chipset. The integrated 16 PoE ports are available in RJ-45 or M12 connectors for IP cameras. It provides a full scope of power protection that includes intelligent vehicle power management technology for ACC on/off delay, shutdown delay, and over/under voltage protection. Enhanced by its robust structure and system design, the UST500-517-FL is able to operate under a wide temperature range from -40°C to +70°C and vibration endurance up to 3 Grms. This transportation embedded box is in compliance with E-Mark and EN 50155 for mobile surveillance applications.

Teleste Corporation has revealed that its S-AWARE platform has been selected by Helsinki City Transport to drive improved situational awareness and safer travelling across the Helsinki metro system. The deployment of the platform will commence in 2019 and the project will be carried out in several phases, and completed by the end of 2020. The total value of the deployment will be more than two million euros.

It has been announced that MEN is now part of the HASELNUSS consortium of DB Netz AG, the Fraunhofer Institute, Sysgo and TU-Darmstadt for the development of hardware-based safety platforms for railway control and security technology. Thanks to experience in the safety-critical transport sector, MEN can advise the research project on questions relating to safety architecture.

The line of fully encapsulated RIA12 railway quality DC/DC converters from ABSOPULSE Electronics has recently been updated, with the RWR-350-P600 series. The units have an input voltage surge withstand capacity 3.5 times the nominal input voltage for 20 milliseconds and meet the requirements of RIA12 with wide margins.

Founded at this year’s InnoTrans rail fair, with HARTING as one of the founding members was the International Railway Quality Board (IRQB) which aims to ensure quality within the rail industry. The consortium consists of railway operators such as Deutsche Bahn and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), system integrators such as Siemens and Alstom, as well as component suppliers such as Knorr-Bremse and HARTING. 

Due to the liberalisation of the rolling stock market, more and more companies use the existing rail infrastructure. Trains are therefore equipped with energy measurement systems to track the power consumption of different operators and enable transparent billing. However, without reliable, highly accurate transducers, energy consumption data can only be of limited use.