DOC® SaaS in Production Service on Genesee & Wyoming Railroads

August 27, 2007 -- RailComm, Inc. announces it has signed long term service agreements with two Genesee & Wyoming railroads, the Portland & Western Railroad and the Illinois & Midland Railroad. The service agreement allows the two G&W properties to access RailComm’s state-of-the-art Domain Operations Controller (DOC®) train control system through a web-enabled Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model.

Currently each G&W railroad is utilizing the GCOR-based dark territory control application, with near-term plans to add the DOC® CTC control application. The dark territory control systems are in revenue service today, and offer G&W railroads the ability to consolidate dispatch desks on demand.

RailComm’s DOC® Software-as-a-Service offering is a railroad industry first, and is destined to revolutionize dispatch services, crew management, and the remote control of trains, power switches and in fact, any electro-mechanical device.

Mike Meyers, G&W Chief Information Officer states “Genesee & Wyoming Inc is pleased to be RailComm’s first customer to utilize their ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS) delivery model.  Housed in RailComm’s data center, their system is available on demand via the Internet and provides our railroads with a convenient and efficient way to implement train dispatching and centralized train control (CTC).

The DOC® system is designed with built-in expansion capabilities for adding workstations and/or field control nodes without interrupting operation of the current system. Since the control application resides on servers within RailComm’s managed data center, the requirement for local IT support at each railroad is greatly reduced.

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.

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RailComm, Inc.
Sean Gleeson
585-377-3360
sgleeson@railcomm.com

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RailComm, Inc.
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Fairport, NY 14450

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