Transcript Using RFID to enhance rail operations

Using RFID to enhance rail
operations
Ric Clark – CTO, Alcatel Australasia
Clive Macmillan Davies – Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Co-Presenters Alcatel & Booz Allen Hamilton
Implementing successful business solutions requires:
▼Analysis of the business process
▼Alignment of the technology to meet the business requirements
This presentation is co-hosted by:
▼ Ric Clark - CTO Alcatel Australia
▼Alcatel provide a full range of technology solutions as well as integration
and life cycle support
▼ Clive Macmillan Davies – Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
▼Demonstrate the approach to solve customers problems with innovative
technology solutions
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Agenda
Alcatel today
What is RFID?
Using RFID to enhance rail operations
RFID in action: Comboios De Portugal
(CP)
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A powerful portfolio
World leader ADSL
At the forefront
World leader
Terrestrial
Submarin
e
Optics
Among the top 2 or 3
in the world
Observation, science
civilian & military telecoms
Satellites
FTTX
WiMAX
Leader
Core NGN
Applications
Mobile
Access
IP
Enterprise
IP telephony
Call centers
Among the top 2 or 3
in the world
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Rail Signaling ETCS
World leader
Edge service router
Ethernet
aggregation
Growing momentum
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Alcatel’s Rail Customers
Metro/Light Rail
Paris
Istanbul
Brescia
Copenhagen
London
Dublin
Cairo
Mainline Railways
Berlin
Delhi
Madrid
Stockholm
Beijing
Shanghai
Oslo
Mexico
Spain
Portugal
Slovakia
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Germany
Italy
Belgium
UK
Australia
Dubai
Turkey
Australia
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Agenda
Alcatel today
What is RFID?
Using RFID to enhance rail operations
RFID in action: Comboios De Portugal (CP)
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Radio Frequency IDentification
 Uses radio waves to automatically
transfer data between RFID tags and
readers
 Radio not optical – doesn't require
line-of-site
 Tags can be read through snow, fog,
ice, paint, dust
 ‘Passive’ tags and ‘active’ tags
 Enables tagged items to be tracked
and information to be collected
automatically – even when items are
on the move
 Know the location and status of items
in real time
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Perceptions
Technology adoption in industry: Gartner
Time
‘Technology ‘Peak of Inflated
Trigger’
Expectations’
‘Trough of
‘Slope of
Disillusionment’ Enlightenment’
‘Plateau of
Productivity’
Source : Gartner
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Perceptions
RFID Industry Adaptation
Enterprise
Telco
Carrier
Retail
Defence
Transport Security
Time
‘Technology ‘Peak of Inflated
Trigger’
Expectations’
‘Trough of
‘Slope of
Disillusionment’ Enlightenment’
‘Plateau of
Productivity’
Source : Gartner
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Agenda
Alcatel today
What is RFID?
Using RFID to enhance rail operations
RFID in action: Comboios De Portugal (CP)
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Question
How Can the Transport Industry lift RFID to the
“Plateau of Productivity”?
Clive MacMillan-Davies – Booz Allen Hamilton
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Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading management
consulting firm with a global network
Past and Current Clients
Established in 1914, we are the world’s
oldest management consultancy
Global deployment in over 75 countries
with over 16,000 professional staff and
annual sales of over US$3 billion
Strong experience and results
 US recognition: consultant and employer of
choice.
 In a recent independent study by Kennedy
Information, Booz Allen was rated the industry
leader in performance and favourable client
perceptions among general management
consulting firms.
 We focus on strategy – based transformation
 Our clients include:
Egyptian
State
Revenue
Agency
– 12,000 leading companies, among which:
• 70 of the top 100 companies worldwide
• 400 of the top 500 companies in the U.S.
– Governments of 40 countries
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We see visibility as today’s value chain problem
… seeing a problem is 90% of fixing it!
Poor visibility across the supply chain
Lack of transaction velocity
Inefficient capacity to optimise and synchronise supply
chain activity
Poor supply chain control and accountability
Black holes and high costs
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Our Framework to address the key track and
trace issues across five application platforms
Security
Technology
Applications
Access
Information
Traceables
Environment
Application
Platform
Process
Products
Organisation
Assets
Personnel
Application Domain
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We can support an RFID launch end-to-end
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Diagnostic Phase Opportunities in Rail
Assets
 Inventory/warehouse
management
 Monitoring
maintenance
schedules
 Distribution centre
management
 Monitoring rotables
 Automatic stocktaking
 Theft prevention
 Nodal management
 Auto checking of
wheelbarrows with
temperature sensors
 ‘Number plating’ rail
cars
 Using nested
technology (RFID/
GPS/GPRS) to locate
assets real-time
Products
 Inventory
management
 Tracking
maintenance tools
 Tracing
maintenance
documents
 Consignment and
container tracking
 Container
management in rail
yards
 Consumer products
(food for Rail Corps)
 Auto arrival and
invoicing (specific to
QR)
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Traceables
Access
Personnel
 Document tracking
 Hazardous tracking
– fuels, lubs, oils,
chemicals, paints,
etc
 Tracking mobile
communications/
laptops
 Site and building
access control
 IT access control
 Security
 Auto
payment/ticketing
systems
 ID verification
 Access control
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Monitor and mange rail assets
 Assets – Preventive Maintenance
 Data Collection – Predictive Analysis to feed
maintenance scheduling
 Active Real-Time Feedback (Location Based
Information) – Wheelbarrow Monitoring
 Asset Location - Sleeper Repair
 Products
 Tracking Maintenance Tools
 Traceables
 Hazardous Material Tracking
 Access
 Site and Building Access Control
 Personnel
 Autopayment, Ticketing, ID Verification
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Using RFID to enhance rail operations
• Optimise Revenue Streams
• Business Processes Optimization
• Data filtering/Processing
• Workflow
• RFID Tag / reader
• Terminals
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Business Systems
& Applications
Integrated
Communications
Network
Technology
• Cable and Wireless Networks
Rail operators’
Business
Requirement
Business
• Improve Operational Efficiency
Complete RFID Solution
• Enhance Safety
Equipment:
Sensors,
displays…
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Part of an integrated communications network
TETRA/GSM-R
RADIO
DATA
NETWORK
VOICE
NETWORK
Communication
System
Information
Systems
CLOCK TIME
DISPLAY
INFORMATION
DISPLAY
RFID MONITORING
Integrated
Communication
Network
Managements
Systems
PUBLIC
ADDRESS
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SCADA
TRAFFIC
MONITORING
Control
Systems
Security
Systems
VIDEO
SURVEILLANCE
EMERGENCY
CALL POINTS
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Agenda
Alcatel today
What is RFID?
Using RFID to enhance rail operations
RFID in action: Comboios De Portugal (CP)
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RFID trial in Portugal: Comboios De Portugal
Increase operational efficiency and safety
CP instituted an RFID stock management system that improved
traceability and reliability of replacement parts for their rolling stock
RFID tags had to be able to withstand the harsh rail environment –
vibration, high temperature and the impact of high speed objects
Maintenance efficiency enhanced
RFID tags periodically read
ID cross-checked with data base
information
Enables CP to easily verify when
components need to be replaced
or maintained
Improves reliability of
maintenance history
Able to quickly locate parts
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RFID trial in Portugal: Comboios De Portugal
Increase operational efficiency and safety
CP instituted an RFID stock management system that improved
traceability and reliability of replacement parts for their rolling stock
RFID tags had to be able to withstand the harsh rail environment –
vibration, high temperature and the impact of high speed objects
Maintenance efficiency enhanced
RFID tags periodically read
ID cross-checked with data base
information
Enables CP to easily verify when
components need to be replaced
or maintained
Improves reliability of
maintenance history
Able to quickly locate parts
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Disaster can result if you don’t get it right
• RFID caused interference to the nearby
Vodafone telephone tower
• What if this were a critical part of a rail operational
network?
• Internal (operational) as well as external (commercial)
systems need to be tested and protected
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Proven innovations for railways
www.alcatel.com/rail
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