Safety-oriented acceleration and vibration measuring system

• Rail transportation is exposed to high loads.
• Sliding or spinning of a driven wheel on a rail leads to heavy wear.
• This results in an enormous increase in maintenance and repair costs.
• Slip and skid detection are difficult to achieve due to the high loads.

• Development of a safety-oriented acceleration and vibration measurement system for safe skidding and sliding protection to trigger drive and control commands.
• Safe and fast detection of skidding and sliding processes based on real-time data.
• Intervention in drive and control commands.

System architecture:

• Control unit developed for SIL 3 in accordance with IEC 61508.
• 1oo2D safety processor.
• 1oo3 Vibration sensor system.
• Position detection via GPS.
• Transmission of safe sensor data via Ethernet to control and braking system.
• Transmission of sensor data to GUI.
• Local storage of sensor data on SD card.