Remote control derails implemented at Belt Railway of Chicago
August 18, 2008 -- RailComm has provided a wireless remote control derail system for the Belt Railway of Chicago’s car shop facility in Illinois. The power derails are remotely controlled by control panels located inside the car shop. The panels have LED indicators to show the current position of the derail device and push buttons are used to apply and remove the derails. One panel is used to control the derails located on the north track, while the other panel controls the south track derails.
RailComm’s 2.4 GHz Spread Spectrum RADiANT™ data radios is used to establish wireless communications networks to link the derail and control panel locations. RADiANTs with directional antennas are mounted at each derail location.
Upon activation, service tracks are safely and immediately protected by the remote control of the appropriate derail device with associated blue strobe light warning indication.
For more information, contact RailComm, Inc., 1387 Fairport Road, Fairport, NY 14450. Phone: 585-377-3360.
About RailComm
RailComm, Inc. provides Machine-to-Machine technology (M2M) solutions for freight railroad, passenger rail and industrial operations throughout North America. We integrate our intelligent embedded controllers with existing field-based appliances and communicate remote control/status information to central and/or distributed control platforms such as our DOC® (Domain Operations Controller) server-based platform, and our line of industrial indoor/outdoor control panels. RailComm’s DOC® is a mission critical, server-based platform for Command, Control, Communication and Information (C3i) applications involving data acquisition, command/control decision logic, and complex communication networks. DOC® provides an extensible/scalable architecture to support a wide variety of customer specific industrial applications. RailComm control panels can be configured as stand-alone controllers or can be integrated with the DOC® system.
RailComm control systems are installed on most Class 1 railroads throughout North America, as well as dozens of Passenger Rail, Short Line and Regional railroads.
Contact Information:
RailComm, Inc.
Sean Gleeson
585-377-3360
sgleeson@railcomm.com
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Sean Gleeson
RailComm, Inc.
1387 Fairport Rd.
Fairport, NY 14450
585-377-3360 x125