Intense railway traffic requires accurate location of each dose. The main design of the installation, developed by the German Institute of Technology Karlsruhe (KIT) and ITK Engineering (Germany), is a magnetic railway sensor (MAROS), which constantly analyzes the magnetic properties of rails.
Body sensor in the running gear of the locomotive. During the movement, it constantly measures the magnetic field that is formed from which the rails are made, since these readings are different for each section of the track, traces appear. It is on them that the exact place where the train is currently located is established.
This is not the first attempt to create such a system, but everything that already exists – surveillance cameras, GPS sensors and electronic beacons – has many disadvantages that prevent this information from being obtained. MAROS has already been successfully tested on railway lines in the Vienna area. The creators of the system expect it to be launched in the near future. of the year.
Source: Tech Cult
