Tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway
AssigneeRailcomm, LLC
InventorsJoseph M. Denny, Michael J. Penza, Andrew Kunzmann, Sean Gleeson
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Abstract
A system for monitoring the location of rolling stock within a controlled area of a railway system is provided. The system includes a plurality of axle counters within the controlled area, wherein the axle counts are associated with a global sequence identifier. A central controller processes the axle counts and associated global sequence identifier in conjunction with a list of rolling stock entering the controlled area to provide a real time map of the location of each piece of rolling stock within the controlled area.
Claims23
A method of tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway system, the method comprising:
- (a) linking an axle count from an axle counter located in the controlled area and a global sequence identifier to provide an identified axle count;
- (b) associating the identified axle count with a predetermined axle of a given rolling stock within the controlled area;
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- (c) displaying a position of at least one of the identified axle count and the given rolling stock in the controlled area.
A method of tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway system, the method comprising:
- (a) transmitting to a central controller to provide an axle count, a signal corresponding to passage of an axle from at least one of a plurality of networked axle counters in the controlled area;
- (b) assigning a global sequence identifier to at least a subset of the axle counts;
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- (c) displaying a location of rolling stock within the controlled area corresponding to the at least subset of axle counts.
A method of tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway system, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving data representing an order of rolling stock in a train entering the controlled area, at least one of the rolling stock being uniquely identified;
- (b) obtaining an axle count from at least one axle counter in the controlled area;
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- (c) associating the obtained axle count with the at least one of the rolling rock within the controlled area.
A system for tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway system, the system comprising:
- (a) a plurality of axle counters in the controlled area for determining passage of an axle;
- (b) a global sequencer assigning a global sequence identifier to the passage of the axle by at least one axle counter in the controlled area;
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- (c) a central processor configured to provide a display of a location of a piece of rolling stock within the controlled area corresponding to the determined passage of the axle and the assigned global sequence identifier.
A method for tracking rolling stock in a controlled area of a railway system, the controlled area including at least one track zone extending between adjacent axle counters, the method comprising:
- (a) obtaining a list of rolling stock entering the controlled area and a global sequence identifier associated with at least a subset of rolling stock in the list;
- (b) identifying a passage of the subset of rolling stock from at least one of the axle counters and associating the passage with a global sequence identifier;
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- (c) displaying an order of the subset of the rolling stock within the track zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.