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AssigneeL.B. Foster Rail Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGlen Appleby, James Gavin Campbell, Donald Thomas Eadie, Petar Nedkov Gueorguiev, Michael Irwin Handler, Harold DeVillo Harrison, Kevin David Oldknow, Steven David Singleton, Jacob Matthew Welch, Walter Eric Spicker, William T. Urmson
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A wayside friction management system, and method for monitoring and controlling a wayside friction management system is described. The system comprises one or more wayside device for mounting with a track of a rail system. The wayside device comprises a delivery system connected to a reservoir comprising a friction control media, the delivery system for applying the friction control media from the reservoir to one or both rails of a track. The wayside device further comprises one or more data collection module located at or adjacent to the delivery system. The data collection module for collecting and transmitting data to a remote performance unit. The data may comprise performance information, track status information, information of an environment of the track, information of a train passing over the track, status of the one or more wayside device, or a combination thereof. The wayside device may comprise a power source operatively connected to one or more components of the wayside device.
A method of monitoring a wayside friction management system comprising, collecting data measured at one or more data collection module located at a lateral/vertical force measurement location, transmitting the data by radio frequency, cellular communications channels, or both, from the data collection module to a remote performance unit, and comparing the data with base line reference values stored on a database of the remote performance unit, the base line reference values comprising track maintenance conditions and known lateral force measurement patterns correlated with known maintenance conditions.
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