LoRaWAN
®
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Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) for railways
• One of the biggest LoRaWAN deployment in Japan
• Hundreds of Kerlink gateways & thousands of sensors
• Objectives: to monitor facilities along the railroad tracks
➢ Signaling equipment power supply (traffic lights…)
➢ Overhead electrical lines temperature
➢ Railroad-crossing equipment status
➢ Slope collapse/rockfall detection in mountainous areas
• Benefits:
➢ Enable remote inspection & more detailed daily management of railroad facilities
➢ Reduce risk of industrial accidents (electrical shock, fall, being hit by a train…)
➢ Reduce impact of labor shortages and maintenance costs
• Why LoRaWAN
®
?
First large-scale installation of such a system in the
railroad industry in Japan !
➢ Security: private network
➢ Collect wide variety of data
➢ Low-power consumption
➢ Cost-effective infra
➢ Long range communication
➢ Gateways robustness
