Designed and Developed Field Transmission Unit For Data Collection in Use Cases such as Railways

The Need

Field data collection in a reliable and efficient way was always a challenge for industries, agriculture, remote infrastructure monitoring, smart cities, transport networks like railways etc. Our Customer, Indian Railways was looking for a reliable field data collection unit for its Remote Diagnosis & Predictive Maintenance (RDPMS) of field devices.

Impacts Delivered
  • Designed a system with high reliability, performance and modularity.
  • Design meets RDSO specifications
  • Reduced stored/sent data using deadband and threshold detection
  • The prototype production is complete and will be followed by CE, FCC, UL certification process
Our Solution
  • Gadgeon designed and developed an FTU device using NXP’s LS1023 processor which runs Linux and with good processing power. 
  • We have built the required internal intelligence to collect data, process data, store &/ or send only the relevant data.
  • Hardware, Mechanical, Firmware & Application design, development, bring-up and testing 
  • Backplane architecture with multiple PCB cards of up to 8 layer and interfaces like DDR4, PCIe, RGMII, USB, SDIO, SPI, UART, I2C etc.…
  • Interfaces - Wi-Fi, 4G, Ethernet, USB, RS485, LoRa, SD Card
  • Deadband & threshold detection to optimize data 
  • DIN Rail mountable metallic enclosure.
  • The FTU is a backplane architecture design, where the backplane consists of PCIe slots. 
  • Among the PCIE slots, one 8X PCIe slot is provided for connecting the Processor card and four 4x PCIe slots are provided to insert different add-on cards like Analog Input Cards, Digital Input Cards or Custom Cards like Rail IoT BMS Card as per customer requirement.
  • FTU firmware is designed using a modular architecture with separate modules for configuration, data acquisition, processing and data publishing functions. 
  • The data monitoring functions are handled by publishing the FTU states to the UI. 
Tools & Technologies
  • PROCESSOR CARD: - NXP’s LS1023 processor, 2xCPU 64-Bit ARM A53, 1.0GHz, 2GB DDR4 Memory, 8GB eMMC
  • DIGITAL INPUT CARD: - 8 x Digital input channels per card, Inputs configurable to 0-24V or PFC Input
  • ANALOG INPUT CARD: - 16 x Analog input channels per card, Inputs configurable to Analog Voltage (0-10V) or Analog Current (4-20mA)
  • IoT BMS CARD:  - 4 X PFC Inputs, Humidity & Temperature sensor, and 48V Battery voltage monitoring.

System Block Diagram

System Block Diagram railway asset

Firmware Architecture

Firmware Architecture Railway Assets


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