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Challenge
Today passengers travelling on trains operated by public commuter and mainline systems expect to receive full, up-to-date information on their journeys, particularly if and when disruptions occur. Besides these new customer requirements, railway operators must also satisfy more traditional information needs such as destination indicators and loudspeaker announcements in trains.
Solution
Railvox has proved its worth as a passenger information system in more than a thousand applications for many railway operators in commuter and mainline passenger systems. In recent years it has been developed further into a modern and online-compatible passenger information system capable of satisfying the increased requirements of railway operators and their customers. With Powerline technology it is possible to set up an IT-based backbone in complete train sets using the existing cable infrastructure in the coaches themselves. The backbone allows other IT-based systems such as video surveillance or automatic passenger count systems to be integrated into the trains simply and easily via the vehicle platform. The vehicle platform is also used to exchange data between centralised systems and the trains using GPRS or WLAN so that various systems on the trains can be operated with online capability.
Advantages
With the Railvox passenger information system, its vehicle platform and Powerline technology, Ascom is offering a modular, expandable system for information transmission in trains which fully satisfies the contemporary demands and requirements of railway operators and their customers.
PRODUCTS
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Display
Ascom has developed LED displays for interior and exterior use in the railway sector. These active and graphics-compatible displays are based on LED technology and consist of an LED matrix with a 4mm grid spacing.
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PLC Powerline Technology
The growing demand for real-time passenger information, multimedia, online video monitoring, etc., demands new technologies with greater bandwidths in trains, trams and other modes of transport.
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Railvox
With its wide array of possibilities for conveying acoustic and visual information, RAILVOX is the optimum solution to the requirements of passenger information. On this passenger information system the displays and announcements are dynamic, triggered at set times and according to each particular situation.
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Vehicle platform
The vehicle platform is the communication node on rail-mounted vehicles.









