The system monitors real-time performance of station services, allowing swift detection and repair of faults within the station’s lifts, escalators and travelators, as well as signalling equipment along the high-speed line.
Trackside maintenance at St Pancras International is being revolutionised with the help of AMRC engineers who have worked with HS1 Ltd, the owner and operator of the country’s only high-speed railway, to develop augmented reality technology which will streamline how faults are detected and repaired. The system monitors real-time performance of station services, allowing swift detection and repair of faults within the station’s lifts, escalators and travelators, as well as signalling equipment along the high-speed line.
Sensors will pick up and relay faults back to maintenance teams via a private 5G network so maintenance engineers can be swiftly dispatched to repair the faults, thus saving valuable time and money. St Pancras International now has an improved infrastructure to efficiently manage the railway and station.
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