Survey of Wireless Communications Applications in the Railway Industry

Author

Shafiullah, G.M. ; Gyasi-Agyei, A. ; Wolfs, P.

Author_Institution

Queensland Univ., Brisbane

fYear

2007

fDate

27-30 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

65

Abstract

Advances in information and communications technology have enabled the adoption of wireless communication techniques in all sectors for the transmission of information in all forms between any two points. Wireless communications and distributed computing have promoted the development of vehicle- monitoring systems to reduce the maintenance and inspection requirements of railway systems while maintaining safety and reliability. This paper surveys existing wireless techniques used in the railway industry for both communications and signalling purposes. Finally we present our work in progress on low-cost, low-power wireless sensor networking architecture to monitor the health of railway wagons attached to a moving locomotive.

Keywords

condition monitoring; maintenance engineering; railway communication; wireless sensor networks; distributed computing; information transmission; locomotive; low-power wireless sensor networking architecture; railway industry; signalling purposes; vehicle-monitoring systems; wireless communications applications; Communication industry; Communications technology; Distributed computing; Inspection; Maintenance; Monitoring; Rail transportation; Railway safety; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Railway communications; train health monitoring; wireless communications; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communications, 2007. AusWireless 2007. The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2846-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-2846-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUSWIRELESS.2007.74

Filename

4299714