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Hi Simon!
Your Name (or Company Name): Scott Durno / High Speed 1
Your Project Title: 5G Integrated Railway AR Digital Twin
Gateway to Research Link: GtR (ukri.org)
Project Description: The rail industry has seen reduced passengers and revenue and due to COVID-19, the challenge is now to attract passengers back to a more reliable railway through diagnosing faults quickly and efficiently, and giving our frontline staff access to information that can allow them to proactively improve the customer and passenger experience. HS1 has had to deal with increased maintenance costs in relation to network assets for several reasons, but in particular the increased difficulty of getting personnel to our assets in a socially distanced manner. Our current data infrastructure isn’t capable of reporting vast amounts of information in real-time and doesn’t allow personnel to quickly isolate the location and reason for faults and failures. This R&D project is to implement remote condition monitoring to diagnose faults remotely. Using 5G technology, real-time data can be fed into an augmented reality Digital Twin (ARDT) allowing for monitoring of our assets and live data feeds to engineers at the point of need. The benefits include reduced costs, time and CO2 emissions as a result of maintenance activities being monitored and inspected remotely, and the reduced time of in-person maintenance due to the higher level of pre-attendance information. The ARDT has also replicated assets to provide a training aid to our teams, allowing engineers to train on equipment in a safe, virtual environment, and then progressing to site equipped with better practical training and knowledge to allow them to more safely carry out maintenance and repairs.Website / Press Links:
HS1 complete UK’s first 5G-enabled augmented reality digital twin trial (globalrailwayreview.com)
PAULEY leads UK-first ‘augmented reality digital twin’ railway project with HS1 | RailBusinessDaily
HS1’s digital twin trial gives a glimpse of the future of railway (globalrailwayreview.com)
I believe we’re also in the physical copy of the next Global Railway Review issue also.
Thanks,
Scott