CCTV underneath train car
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SMRT wins "Most Innovative Use of Technology Award"
SINGAPORE : Public transport operator SMRT wanted to use creativity and technology to cut cost and maximise efficiency, and thus came up with two innovative systems to make the ride more pleasant for commuters.
For its efforts, the company garnered the "Most Innovative Use of Technology Award" for the first time at the International Metro Awards in London.
For many MRT users, passing by ticketing gantries is an everyday affair.
Once in a while, passengers would try to sneak past with a free ride - by tailgating the person in front.
SMRT is hot on their trail, with a new gantry that has more sophisticated sensors.
David Ho, senior manager, Fare System Development, SMRT, explained: "We have more sensors, so they actually better detect the different passenger profile, for example children, adults and passengers with trolley and prams. So with a more accurate detection, it increases the throughput of passengers."
The sensors are better able to detect if someone is trying to tailgate, or is simply taking a little longer at the gantry.
Currently, there is only one such gantry at the Somerset MRT station.
SMRT hopes to replace its 20-year-old gantries with the new ones over the next four years.
The train operator also hopes to improve its track maintenance work through a set of cameras tucked underneath a train car. The aim is to record images of foreign objects or detect problems with the tracks.
Ng Chong Joo, senior manager, Permanent Way Branch, SMRT, said: "With the real vision system, we can pick up track abnormalities, which include uneven surfaces.
"With this system, we are able to pick up the defects earlier, so that we can schedule out maintenance activity to smoothen the rail surface in a (speedy) manner."
Currently, SMRT deploys about 60 staff every alternate day to check the tracks manually, using a torch light. This approach is labour intensive and time consuming. With the new camera system, the company hopes to reduce such checks from every alternate day to just once a week.
SMRT has installed the cameras on two trains and hopes to use them more extensively from next week.So which train-set? anybody noes? i saw on tv yesterday, it is a C651 since it white.
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Technology is not really new... JR Kyushu uses several of their passenger service Shinkansen train for permanent way monitoring.
Series 800 (新幹線800系電車)
U001 - Pantograph and track monitoring
U007 and U009 - Track monitoring
U008 - Electric, communications and signal monitoringIts just like the 923/E926 that other JR companies have, just that it carries passengers like another normal train.
There are computer ports to enable staff to retrieve data and do monitoring on the train. Such things are not really new as using revenue train reduces train numbers (one less maintenance train) and reduces secrecy.
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all C651 have it, i watc malay news just now
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Hmm... we might see the next person who jumps in faces of death...
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Originally posted by caleb_chiang:
Hmm... we might see the next person who jumps in faces of death...
Actually the CCTV will point down perpendicular to the tracks in order to spot cracks. You might only see blood lol.
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So funny, I remembered sometime back SMRT said they have no funds to install CCTV on the train platforms, now they install them under the trains too.
They really improved. **Clap Clap**
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well, could it be 231/232? in MIA for quite some time before reappearing again.....
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231/232 back on NSL today...