20 x 2-minute, 2-slide presentations made during a networking session by delegates at the Transport KTN's Digital Railways information and consortia-building day on 25th March 2013. Pitches from: Selex ES Cranfield University Zircon Magellium Humaware Altran CoreThree University of Huddersfield Bellrock Technology Rethinking Transport NarecSolar RDS Coventry University Loughborough University TSE-n Metro UK Delta Rail Royal College of Art LetsJoin EuroTech

1. Transport Knowledge Transfer Network
enquires@transportktn.org www.transportktn.org
Elevator Pitches

2. Accelerating Innovation in Rail
Elevator Pitch: Paul Bathgate
25 March 2013

3. Creating Smart Infrastructure
Entrusted to deliver technology-enabled systems and solutions for a safer, smarter and more secure society
Transfer Key Information
Technologies
The Rail Industry
17,900 people
Airborne & Space Systems
Land & Naval Systems
Security & Smart Systems
Introduce new train born condition
monitoring sensor technology to in-
service fleet – with Partners
Introduce remote fixed condition
monitoring of signal assets and the rail
environment – In response to NR needs
Point of contact:Paul Bathgate
M: 07793425112
paul.bathgate@selex-es.com

4. IVHM©2012 Cranfield University All rights Reserved http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ivhm
• Production,
certification & testing
• Total ownership costs
• System & life cycle
• Requirements
• FMECAs
• Design models
• Failure modes/models
• System test data
Design
Engineering
Manufacturing
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Spares Supply
• Asset Tracking
• Maintenance Execution
Integrated Vehicle
Health Management
Vehicle Maturation/ New Product
• Operational Demand
• Fleet Availability
• MR & O leading
• Operational Schedule
• Operational Effectiveness
Health Status
Act
Acquire
Transfer
Sense
Health Status
• Current
• Predicted
Analyse
Asset
Data Repository
& Ground Processing
Maintenance &
Logistics
Operational Control
Contact:
Prof Ian Jennions
i.jennions@cranfield.ac.uk
Ph: 01234 758390
Mob: 07590749222

5. IVHM©2012 Cranfield University All rights Reserved http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ivhm
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/ivhm
IVHM©2012 Cranfield University All rights Reserved
IVHM Centre Project
Areas

6. Questions
• Who are we?
Zircon Software
• What do we do?
Full life cycle software development and integration
• Who do we do it for?
LUL, Network Rail, Invensys, Siemens, Knorr Bremse, GE
Transportation, Petards, Balfour Beatty
• Can we innovate?
3D Train Graph - 2010 IET Innovation Award Finalist
ATO/ETCS Interface, Web data distribution, Updated
Architecture

7. Last Question
• How do you contact me?
Brian Hunt
Managing Director
Zircon Software
Bellefield House
Hilperton Road
Trowbridge
Wilts, BA14 7FP
01225 764444
07811 126649
brian.hunt@zirconsoftware.co.uk

8. 8
michael.lawrence@magellium.co.uk
Our core skills :
Data access/extraction
Adding value to data
Representing data
Cataloguing data

9. 9
TWIM – Two-Way Information Management
Feasibility Study
Trial planned
with British
Transport
Police

10. A low cost enhancement to HUMS
Novel adaptive threshold technology that provides
automatic alerts without compromising detection
sensitivity to achieve an acceptable false alert rate
Novel automatic trend detections that identifies the turning
point in the data to provide the most accurate trend possible
In a recent evaluation the CFAR-Autotrend technology:
•Exceeded static thresholding detection accuracy
•Provided earlier detection than static thresholds
•Detected maintenance events (material faults) not identified by static thresholds
•Demonstrated that the False Alert target of 10% of true alerts can be met
(ref: US Army RDECOM; TECHNICAL REPORT RDMR-AE-11-0; dated December 2011)
Combining
with
Contact: Ken Pipe |kpipe@humaware.com |www.humaware.com |01730 269 725
The CFAR-Autotrend technology needs to be extended to include the
prognostics interval (Remaining Useful Life) as an output that can be
used for prognostics so that the alerts can be turned into actionable data.
Research
Interest

11. Altran Solutions
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 Independent Safety Assessment
› Trusted ISA for generic products, applications and complete systems both on Metro and Mainline
 Conformity Assessment
› Accredited European Notified Body (NoBo) and UK Designated Body (DeBo) for Command Control and
Signalling
 Safety Engineering and Consultancy
› Creation of safety cases on behalf of a supplier or authority
› Safety advice and support for suppliers and operators
› Auditing and Assessment of core safety processes (ESM Gauge)
 Rail Systems Engineering
› Expertise throughout the full lifecycle from Concept / Requirements to V&V and full system validation.
 Critical SW Development
› Either as a part of a clients team or with full end to end responsibility
 Safety & Critical Systems Training
› Standard training course in Engineering Safety Management (previously Yellow Book) with over 7,000
engineers trained to date
› Long experience in development and delivery of specific training course on Safety or Critical Software
Processes
Ken Greenwood www.altran.co.uk

12. Value Proposition to Potential Consortia
 Significant Expertise in development of innovative and safety critical
systems
 Member of the UK Advisory Board for INCOSE, promoting Systems
Engineering best practice
 Longstanding supplier to UK rail market including Network Rail, TfL and all
the key product suppliers
 Can bring expertise from across multiple industries
› Defence, Aerospace, Nuclear
 Access to large resource pool of approximately 20,000 engineers from more
than 20 countries
Ken Greenwood www.altran.co.uk

13. Award-winning software platform connecting
content, UX and UI and data to get the most
from them
Core Engine helps Go Ahead deliver mobile
ticketing for transport nationwide
Charge Your Car use Core Engine to enable
connect their NFC EV charging network with
customers’ smartphones
IBM partner with Corethree, integrating Smart
Cities via the web, mobile and back-office
Datahive uses Core Engine to processes vast
amounts of big data for the media industry

14. Big
data
User
content
Integrated
systems
Smart
phones
Tablets Desktop and Web
Web Services
0845 557 0475
sales@corethree.net

15. 15
Opportunities to Collaborate
…increasing reliability, availability, maintainability &
safety…
Roger Bromley • Visiting Professor of Innovation & Collaboration
• Tel: 07710 486888
• r.bromley@hud.ac.uk
• Web Link
Andrew Ball • Professor of Diagnostic Engineering and Pro-Vice-
Chancellor for Research and Enterprise
• Web Link
Simon Iwnicki • Professor of Railway Engineering and Director of
the Institute of Railway Research
• Web Link

16. 16
Performance Critical
Fasteners and the Smart
Washer
Static Smart Washer
The Static Smart Washer can be applied in a wide variety of operational environments to achieve significantly
improved maintenance capabilities
• Direct measurement of the clamping force – 1 Hz
• Unique RFID
• NRC/FFC
• Power options – wired, transponder, 1-2 year lithium battery
Dynamic Smart Washer
The dynamic smart washer allows the condition of the system to be monitored e.g. switches.
• Measurement rate of 10 Hz
Energy Harvesting
About to start
• High efficiency, 20 year “fit and forget” solution.
Bolt
Member 1
Member 2
Nut
SmartWasher
RFID/Transmitter/
Energy Scavenger
Bolt
Member 1
Member 2
Nut
SmartWasher
RFID/Transmitter/
Energy Scavenger
Smart
Washer
RFID
transmitte
r
Immediate Opportunities
Automated Abnormality
Detection
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500
520
540
560
580
Time(HH:MM:SS-21-Sep)
Speed(r/m)
Speed Check for Port Engine (20-23-Sep-2006)
Speed 2
1% alert
0.01% alert
0.0001% alert
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500
520
540
560
580
Time(HH:MM:SS-21-Sep)
Speed(r/m)
Speed Check for Starboard Engine (20-23-Sep-2006)
Speed 2
1% alert
0.01% alert
0.0001% alert
20 30 40 50 60
0
5
10
15
Port Engine B Speed( 0 60)
Rack
Speed(krpm)
60 70 80 90 100
12
14
16
18
20
Port Engine B Speed( 60 100)
Rack
Speed(krpm)
full data
model data
fitted line
12:00:00 00:00:00 12:00:00 00:00:00
-1
0
1
2
3
x 10
4
Time(HH:MM:SS) 20-Sep to 22-Sep
Speed(rpm)
Port Engine Turbocharger: B
Measured
predicted
Alert1
Alert3

17. Bellrock Technology Ltd
0141 548 2655
www.bellrocktechnology.com
204 George Street
Glasgow, G1 1XW
Adam Brown, Operations Director
E: adam.brown@bellrocktechnology.com
M: 0744 683 1489
Who we are
 Engineering software company building intelligent decision
support that helps industry manage equipment more cost-
effectively
 Formed in 2012 – spinout from University of Strathclyde
 15 years of industry-driven research into advanced diagnostics
Problems we tackle
 Demand for better use of condition monitoring data
 Numerous data gathering technologies in use
 Converting data to meaningful information is difficult
 Link not yet fully made to asset management

18. Bellrock Technology Ltd
0141 548 2655
www.bellrocktechnology.com
204 George Street
Glasgow, G1 1XW
Adam Brown, Operations Director
E: adam.brown@bellrocktechnology.com
M: 0744 683 1489
Our decision support platform – Lumen®
 Intelligently adapts to the precise requirements of each end-user
 Flexibly combines data from any source
 Plug-and-play analytics automatically extract meaningful information
 Open to deploy 3rd party analytics / diagnostics
What we are looking for
 Expertise in rail industry
 Sensor designers needing support to deliver / contextualise data
 Developers of novel diagnostics looking to exploit data / deliver
results
 Customers seeking to reduce operational costs & extend asset
lifetimes

19. Jon Maybury
Active yield management to match demand to
available capacity, through smart ticketing
jon@rethinkingtransport.com

20. Report of the Rail Value for Money
Study
6.4.2 Fares policy and demand management
The review of fares policy should focus , in
particular , on how fares structures can be
used to aid management of peak demand. It
is clear that a major cost driver of cost in GB
rail is on the provision of capacity to meet
peak demand …. More flexible fare structures
and the use of “intelligent ticketing” could
assist in making better use of capacity and
thus improve efficiency.

21. UK PV Technology Centre, based in North East England.
Est. 2005 – Transferred from BP Solar Research Group retaining key personnel + IP
Proven R+D track record in TSB, EU FP6 and EU FP7.
• Project Coordinator and Work Package leaders
• Project Management PRINCE 2 qualified managers
• Highly qualified and experienced research team (PhD, MSc..)
• Published in solar journals and conference proceedings
• Strong links with UK and European Universities and Institutes
Name: Ian Baistow Tel: 01670 357733
Email: contact@narecsolar.com
About us:

22. Flexibility to provide custom designed and built PV solutions for off grid systems
State-of-the-art module manufacturing techniques
Over 40,000 working systems currently out in the field in the UK.
Capabilities:
Global customer network for applications such as:
• Emergency Roadside Telephones – (UK Highways Agency)
• Environmental monitoring
• Data monitoring
• Traffic management solutions
• Ticketing
• Security
• Oil and gas………………..
The possibilities for solar powered applications are endless!!!!
Name: Ian Baistow Tel: 01670 357733
Email: contact@narecsolar.com

23. Position
(track specific) of
front of train
Position
(track specific) of
rear of (freight) train
High dependability, low latency
wireless communications
Freeing the railway from the 19th century track circuit:
improve performance, increase capacity and reduce cost
KEY ENABLERS
richard.shenton@rdsintl.com
www.rdsintl.com

24. The Location Aware Train
• Towards train control without track circuits
• £100M+ per year benefits (capacity, performance, cost)
• We have positioning technology & comms proposals for low cost retrofit
• Building consortium for shorter term benefits demonstrator (dependable, real-time position)
– Operations experience, applications providers, researchers, safety/human factors
richard.shenton@rdsintl.com
Crossing emergencies
Worker protection & ESRs
Disruption & diversion
management
Traffic management
Comms
Passenger info
Driver Advisory Systems
Door control and
safe departure
www.rdsintl.com

25. Transport Knowledge Transfer Network
Digital Railway Event – March 2013
Wide Ranging Cross Faculty Expertise in:
• Design, Engineering and Computing
• From visualisation through to detailed simulation
• Highly relevant transferable skills/experience
• Automotive, Aerospace, ....
• Well known for collaboration in industry led research
• Design, Logistics, Cyber Security, Dynamics, Safety, ...
• Low Carbon Vehicles, Integrated Mobility, .....
• Strong Business support structure

26. Advanced Simulation
Transferable Advanced CAE and Simulation Experience
RIDE QUALITY, DURABILITY
Multibody Dynamics – ADAMS, SIMPACK
CRASH SAFETY, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Finite Element Analysis – Hyperworks, LS-Dyna
Occupant Safety, Comfort
MADYMO, Finite Element Analysis,
CONTACT: Professor Mike Blundell - mike.blundell@coventry.ac.uk

27. Loughborough Design School
 User experience
 mobile, ICT, social media, public displays
 Crowd-sourcing/volunteered info
 how to capture, moments of opportunity, trust,
visualising/representing,
 Inclusive design
 older users, those with disabilities, access, technology use
 Safety and physical aspects
 occupant safety, capacity, comfort, thermal environment
 Socio-technical systems
 people in systems, resilience, complexity, efficiency, modelling
People-driven design & systems
Relevant areas of expertise
www.lboro.ac.uk/lds
t.ross@lboro.ac.uk

28. Loughborough Design School
Crowd-sourced public data
 How to encourage people to contribute
 How to represent data to decision makers
 Project with MySociety, creators of
‘FixMyTransport’ problem reporting portal
 Collaborative projects with Ordnance survey re
crowd-sourced spatial data
 User response to ‘volunteered’ geographic info
vs ‘professional’ geographic info (PhD)
Areas for collaboration? (non exclusive)
some potential topics and a few examples of track record
End-to-end journey accessibility
 Information relevant to context of use &
behaviours
 Information personalisation e.g. mobility
limitations
 TfL project on accessible journey planner
 AUNT-SUE project using digital simulation tools
for accessibility planning and evaluation
 Project with ITP (Integrated Transport Planning)
on @ccess advisr
Socio-technical systems
 Built-in resilience for system failure/change
 Impacts of changing profiles of staff, customers
and usage
 Network Rail & RSSB
 Project on systems aspects of child, teenager
safety
 Project on building resilience capability into
future workforce and passenger safety
Physical ergonomics & safety
 Unintended outcomes of capacity increases,
e.g. thermal environment, crowding
 Public behaviors in response to information,
infrastructure crowds
 Project on Older Public Transport Users
(Medical Research Council)
 Use of mobile technologies by standing
passengers (PhD)
 KTH & Indian Railways project
www.lboro.ac.uk/lds
t.ross@lboro.ac.uk

29. TSE-n Metro UK Ltd
Transportation Security Enterprises
The Technology
• Super broadband wi-fi on and off fast
moving trains
• Behavioral analytics that work
• Real-time security alerts – terrorism
to suicide
• Real-time data on operational
equipment
• Real-time information on track aand
surroundings
• Real-time information on passenger
movement
• Effective commercial wi-fi on trains
Terrorism will return to UK rail

30. TSE-n Metro UK Ltd
Transportation Security Enterprises
The Business Case
• A competent secure fibre back bone
• Large scale secure data analytics and
storage
• Security service to operators and
police by license
• Operational data and information
service to operators by license
• No capital cost to the rail system
• NO PFI OR PPP
• The commercial wi-fi pays the capital
cost and the rail network shares the
profits

31. What We Can Bring
Control Solutions with a Digital Vision
• Affordability and capacity
improvements need Engineering
Solutions & Digital Integration
• Bring on the noise!
• Bring the railways to the consumer
Practical Support
• Data about the operational railway
• An interface to the operational
railway
• Test, simulation and demonstration
facilities
Daren Wood
Solutions Development Director
daren.wood@deltarail.com

32. Data Access
• Record impacts on the availability of the network
Data Storage
• Somewhere to put it
Data Analytics
• Someone to apply it
What We Are Looking For
Daren Wood
Solutions Development Director
daren.wood@deltarail.com
The Spirit of the
“Gamesmakers”
• Bringing the consumers
into the system

33. Elevator pitch: a predictable future
Good at knowing what happened yesterday
Not bad at knowing what's happening today
Less good at knowing what's happening next week / year
• Reliability / utilisation (vehicle & infrastructure)
• Safety
• Cost
This could make a
significant contribution
to improving
• Real time diesel engine / traction package fault
prediction
• Vehicle performance assessment (OTMR data
based diagnostics)
• Track degradation and asset life
• Automated wheel tread fault detection and
maintenance planning
The IRR wants to
develop new ways for
railway engineers to
predict the future
Railways (and their engineers) are:

34. Institute of Railway Research
Elevator pitch: a predictable future
Contact: Julian Stow
j.m.stow@hud.ac.uk +44(0)1484 473021 www.hud.ac.uk/irr
Our
expertise
•Intelligent data analysis (rail vehicle & infrastructure)
•Condition monitoring / sensing technologies
•Railway systems engineering & cost modelling
•Predictive maintenance
Potential
partners
•Infrastructure managers
•Vehicle manufacturers / maintainers
•Train operators
•Sensor technology providers
•Data collectors / integrators

35. Citizen-centered railway planning
• Railway users will be the ultimate beneficiaries of improved
future railways
• How do we make sure that future railways meet citizen
needs?
• To date digital technologies have been used as information /
communication tools for railway users – but could they be
doing more?
• The Royal College of Art and Open City Labs are collaborating
to answer this question

36. Citizen-centered railway planning
• User-centered, iterative design reduces costs and improves
product quality (e.g. software design)
• ‘Social’ technologies are good at engaging people & providing
different perspectives
• Civic apps such as NRE, SeeClickFix, FixMyStreet show that
citizens want to engage
• We aim to apply these techniques to put railway users at the
heart of future planning and service provision – and seek
collaborators

37. There are two principal problems with current on-board passenger Wifi services
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Problem 1 - Passengers suffer from slow and intermittent
connectivity
• Mobile infrastructure is focused on urban areas with poor
coverage in rural areas
• Intercity public transport journeys spend more time in rural
coverage zones than urban zones
• In urban zones mobile signals suffer signal congestion and
structural interference
• Mobile data bandwidth is reduced by 85% when moving
• 4G will improve speed of mobile data connectivity but is subject to
same coverage constraints as 3G
Problem 2 – High demand from passengers = high operational
costs
• Passengers opt for routes offering WiFi
• Data connectivity through the GSM mobile networks is costly
• Operators incur a data cost every time a passenger connects to
the internet
• Operators do not want to charge passengers for Wifi
The O2 map shows poor coverage along National Rail routes
On-board WiFi Channel & Internet
Contact:
sam.glover@LetsJoin.com
tel. +44 203 102 5113
mob. +44 773 990 9999

38. 3rd Party bolt-ons
Fully integrated solution for road and rail
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Internet Access
Eco-driving
Passenger Information
Streaming Media
Ticketing
Debit & credit card
processing
Passenger counting
Panic button
Alcolock
Fleet optimization
Tachograph
IP CCTV
Development, management, control, security, reporting and support
Vehicle diagnostics
Monetization
technologies
Traffic signal priority
On-board ad serving
plattform
Custom development
Hardware sales/rental
Unified
and
integrated
platform
Passenger feedback
Geolocation services
Passenger
Services
Operator
Services
Equipment &
services

39. Who are Eurotech ?
• Specialist in Machine to Machine communications and rugged
electronics
• World top 10 player in the Embedded Computers market, with portfolio
of products pre qualified for rail applications
• Behind the products of more than 20 Global 500 companies
• Wide technology base from wireless sensors to supercomputers
• Provide ‘device fabric’ which handles the acquisition, communication &
storage of data from remote static and mobile devices and sensors,
making this available to multiple enterprise applications, clients and
stakeholders
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Tim Taberner
Product Strategy Manager
Eurotech Ltd
2 Clifton Road, Cambridge CB1 7BN
tel: 01223 411200
tim.taberner@eurotech.com

40. What do we do ?
We turn this… -‘Spaghetti Software’
Business Applications
RTUs, PLCs, PIS, Ticketing, Sensors,
Actuators, displays, etc…..
@
?
@
Enterprise Service Bus for M2M
… into this - Social Networking for Machines !
Device Data Integration
Platform
• Data Mgmt
• Device Mgmt
• Data Storage
• Real-Time Data Delivery
• Real-Time Analytics
• Advanced Queries
• Publish & Subscribe
• REST APIs
• Secure
• Scalable
Everyware Software
Framework
• JAVA based application
framework
• Device Management
• Connectivity Management
• Application Management
• Field data acquisition
• Available on Eurotech and
for third party hardware