Ubisense offers yard productivity tool

Ubisense is introducing to the American market a real-time location system, Transit Yard Manager for Rails (TYM), which it says improves rail yard efficiencies and productivity.

TYM for Rails provides rail operators with several real-time location benefits, Ubisense says, including:

• Location of rolling stock anywhere in the yard, indoors or out.

Reduced number of personnel required for yard auditing.

• Real-time visibility of assets to operations and scheduling departments.

• Integration of all existing software such as maintenance, dispatching, and scheduling into a unified dashboard view.

Precise dwell-time measurements in the maintenance shops and in the yard.

• Improved staging to reduce late pull-outs.

• Real-time consist assembly.

• Real-time view of available tracks.

“By precisely locating rolling stock in both indoor and outdoor areas, operators gain an unprecedented level of visibility into workflow, which helps to improve all areas of rail yard operations,” says the Cambridge, U.K.-based company. “Because rail yards significantly impair the performance of most location systems, TYM is built on Ubisense’s ultra-wideband Real-Time Location System (RTLS), which is specifically designed to provide accurate, reliable location data in very challenging circumstances.”

“Transit Yard Manager for Rails was developed as a direct result of customer demand,” said Adrian Jennings, vice president of technology, Ubisense. “Rail operators consulted with us to explain their long-time challenges associated with manual rail yard audits, and asked Ubisense to develop a solution that could help automate operations. We developed TYM for Rails to meet their needs, and it is already being used in operations as diverse as commuter rail, light rail, and heavy freight.”