Facility and method for monitoring a railroad crossing
AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH
InventorJens Braband
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Abstract
A method monitors a railroad-crossing. A track system area of which, which can be traveled by rail vehicles, and can be traversed by objects along a passing direction. Accordingly, provision is made for a first protection area located in front of the track system area along the passing direction to be monitored for passing events, for a second protection area located behind the track system area along the passing direction to be monitored for passing events, and for at least one warning signal to be generated if the identified passing events are implausible according to at least one predetermined plausibility check.
Claims14
A method for monitoring a railroad crossing, a track system area of the railroad crossing, which is traveled by rail vehicles, is traversed by objects along a passing direction, the method comprises the steps of:
- monitoring a first protection area disposed in front of the track system area along the passing direction for passing events;
- monitoring a second protection area disposed behind the track system area along the passing direction for the passing events;
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- generating at least one warning signal if identified passing events are implausible according to at least one predetermined plausibility check, wherein within a scope of the at least one predetermine plausibility check or one of a plurality of plausibility checks, a counter state warning signal is generated as the at least one warning signal if a number of the identified passing events of the first protection area deviates from a number of the identified passing events of the second protection area at a predetermined point in time of checking.
A monitoring facility for monitoring a railroad crossing having a track system area which is traveled by rail vehicles, and is passed by objects along a predetermined passing direction, the monitoring facility comprising:
- an image recorder for generating images of a first protection area disposed in front of the track system area along the predetermined passing direction and images of a second protection area disposed behind the track system area along the predetermined passing direction;
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- an image evaluator connected to said image recorder and embodied to monitor the images indicating the first and second protection areas for passing events and to generate at least one warning signal if identified passing events are implausible according to at least one predetermined plausibility check.
A non-transitory computer program product having computer executable instructions, which upon execution by said computer, trigger said computer to monitor images, which indicate a first and second protection area of a railroad crossing, for passing events in each case and to generate at least one warning signal if identified passing events are implausible according to at least one predetermined plausibility check.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.