Railway Solutions
Railway Solutions
Although air and road transport is well developed today, the railway is still an extremely stable means of transportation. Whether carrying goods or passengers, it plays an important commercial role on fixed routes and is already part of the infrastructure of smart cities.
Due to its reliability and cost-effectiveness, the investment of construction and upgrade never stop. In addition to the pursuit of capacity and speed improvement, a significant trend is to improve passenger experience and driving safety. In-vehicle devices can provide real-time status display, cabin&train status monitoring, and track intrusion detection. With the powerful performance of AI, these advanced applications can also be implemented more efficiently
Driving assistance or autonomous driving is either an inevitable trend, both of which require high-performance computers to help AI calculations.
Pantograph is the current source of power for rail transportation, and it needs to be constantly monitored to see if it is in normal condition by AI judgment.
To determine the passengers in the cars are evenly distributed, AI calculation can effectively help the driver to make suggestions for the movement of passengers when the compartment is crowded
Obstacles the track cause accidents, AI image analysis can detect the danger early and issue a warning immediately to avoid potential risks.
Cabin monitoring is a necessary approach to ensure the safety of passengers. Analyzing passenger behavior and unidentified leftovers through AI creates a more reassuring carrier service.
Digital signage inside the train help passengers to understand the traffic conditions and increase the additional value of rail transit through commercial advertising.
"The purpose of RC300-CS is to be an in-vehicle system with comprehensive functions," said Crystal, Director of System Products at DFI.
"It will be used for real-time information analysis regarding the vehicle through various sensors and cameras, and then generates useful information for peripheral systems, drivers or passengers, all the designs are meant to meet the demands required for a rail-based in-vehicle system, with high integration of various configurations."
Understanding the driving environment requires a large amount of data that is collected by different sensors throughout the train and then processed by the vehicle's autopilot system.
The RC300-CS acts as an autonomous driving artificial intelligence computer system. Accompanied by high computing power and deep learning algorithms, RC300-CS makes real-time decisions by analyzing continuous data. Makes real-time decisions by analyzing continuous data collected from LIDAR, radar and cameras.
This artificial intelligence technology can make faster and more accurate decisions than humans and assist the ATO's signaling system. and assist the ATO signaling system system to support driverless train operations.
With the images/video collected from IP cameras, RC300-CS can analyze passengers' behavior with pre-trained models to track any person and any
abnormal activities and then alert the staff to take necessary actions. The video can be saved locally or remotely. The RC300-CS provides space for up to four solid state drives and supports RAID 0/1/5/10 to perform a reliable storage solution.
Video analytics technology also helps monitor the opening/closing of control train doors and directs passenger flow to emptier cars. Providing a better experience for passengers.
Fanless computers are very quiet, clean, reliable and flexible as to their location.
Fans cause noise.
Fans bring the air circulation, dust and dirt.
Fanless is stable without potential risks.
No maintenance needed.
The RC300-CS's power consumption is up to 250W with specific settings, it operates at up to 70°C without active fan.
Cellular modules can be installed in MiniPCIe or M.2 slots, scenarios include:
The RC300-CS is particularly planned for the railway industry which needs solid and trusted products to deal with the EMC, vibration, ESD and control surge protection issues.
Thermal design of DFI’s RC300-CS meets the requirement of its performance. As an AIoT edge computer with NVIDIA GPGPU module installed, the RC300‑CS bolsters operation up to 70°C encompassing with 58W P2000 module and 60°C with 115W RTX2070 module without active fan.
This benefits SI to fathom thermal problem whereas the unit is introduced in the limited space with constrained stream like under the driver chair or passenger seat.