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US 10,518,790 B2Granted
Wireless train management system
AssigneeArup Ventures Limited
InventorKenneth Garmson
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Abstract
A train system is provided that includes a train set including at least one railway car, at least one first set of two trackside points located along a path of the train set, at least one second set of two trackside points, at least one RFID tag located at each of the trackside points configured to store dynamic and static characteristics of the train set as it passes the at least one first set of two trackside points, at least one RFID tag located at each of the at least one first set of two trackside points and the at least one second set of two trackside points, the at least one RFID tag being configured to store characteristics of the train set as it passes the at least one second set of the at least two track points, and at least one RFID tag reader connected to a network.
Claims21
A train control system comprising:
- a train set including at least one railway car;
- a track switch controller;
- at least one first set of two track points located along a path of the train set;
- at least one second set of two track points located along a track switch section;
- at least one RFID tag having no preprogrammed data and which is located at each of the at least one first set of two track points configured to store dynamic and static characteristics of the train set as it passes the at least one first set of two track points, wherein the dynamic characteristics stored on the at least one RFID tag are configured to be updated at the at least one first set of two track points, according to characteristics of the train set passing by the at least one first set of two track points;
- at least one RFID tag having no preprogrammed data and which is located at each of the at least one first set of two track points and the at least one second set of two track points, the at least one RFID tag being configured to store dynamic and static characteristics of the train set as it passes the at least one second set of the at least two track switches;
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- at least one RFID tag reader located on the at least one railway car connected to a network;
- wherein the at least one railway car writes data to the at least one RFID tag such that the data is read by the at least one RFID tag reader of a following railway car;
- and wherein the data of the at least one RFID tag is overwritten with new data each time the at least one railway car passes by the at least one first set of two track points and as it passes by the at least one second set of the two track points.
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A method of controlling a train system comprising the steps of:
- a first train car of a first train set communicating to a first car of a second train set via a centralized data network route control center, the communication including a track database, a schedule database, a track switch controller, and a route database;
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- the first train car of the first train set communicating to the first car of the second train set via a communication system, the communication system including:
- at least a first set of two track points located along a path of the first train set;
- at least a second set of two track points located along a track switch;
- at least one first RFID tag having no preprogrammed data and which is located at each of the at least one first set of two track points and at least one second set of track points, wherein the at least one first RFID tag is configured to store dynamic and static characteristics of the first train set as it passes the at least one first set of two track points, wherein the dynamic characteristics stored on the at least one RFID tag are configured to be updated at the at least one first set of two track points according to characteristics of the train set passing by the at least one first set of two track points;
- at least one second RFID tag having no preprogrammed data and which is located at each of the at least one first set of two track points and at least one second set of track points, wherein the at least one second RFID tag configured to store dynamic and static characteristics of the train set as it passes the at least one second set of two track points;
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- at least one RFID tag reader located on the first train set and at least one RFID tag reader located on the second train set;
- wherein the first car of the first train set writes data to the at least one RFID tag such that the data is read by the at least one RFID tag reader of the second car of the second train set and wherein the data of the at least one RFID tag is overwritten with new data each time the first car of the first train set passes by at least one first set of two track points and as it passes by the at least one second set of the two track points;
- and wherein the track switch controller is configured to determine operational distance between the first train set and the second train set.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.