Starting this month, Duos will allow shippers and railcar owners that transit the CN network to subscribe and receive the machine vision safety data, which the supplier said can be used for predictive maintenance, trend analytics, and overall fleet health and maintenance purposes. That data is collected by Duos’ Railcar Inspection Portals®.
For more than five years, CN has used Machine Vision/AI wayside detection technology along its network in Canada and the United States as a complement to manual inspections, according to Duos.
“Duos Technologies is honored to continue our long-standing support to CN,” Duos CEO Chuck Ferry said. “Duos has invested significant time and resources to prove out the Railcar Inspection Portal® and we are pleased to be able to offer it to the many car owners and shippers that will benefit from it. Going forward we intend to further improve the solution and add additional cutting-edge capabilities with special emphasis on wheels and brakes.”
“We are thrilled to strengthen our partnership with Duos Technologies through this new five-year agreement,” said Patrick Whitehead, Executive Vice President and Chief Network Operating Officer at CN. “By leveraging Duos’ technology, we are enhancing our inspection processes, ensuring better maintenance and health of our overall fleet through key data points and predictive analytics.”
Thirteen of Duos’ Railcar Inspection Portals are deployed in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, supporting CN, CSX and two other Class I railroads, plus Amtrak.
According to Duos, late last year, it began a pilot program with Amtrak to test the subscription concept for images. “Amtrak’s long-distance passenger trains are scanned, and the machine vision images are sent in real time to Amtrak mechanical inspectors who have used the data with excellent results during the testing period,” the supplier reported.
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