East Coast has commenced fitting its fleet of HSTs and 225 sets with a remote monitoring system, called Project Falcon.
Using Nexala software and delivered by Interfleet Technology, the £2m project allows East Coast engineers to monitor the fleet via a data feed from the OTMR system.
This means the engineers can see how the train’s infrastructure is performing in real time and also look at things such as what notch the power controller is in and what relays are open at any given time.
Because of its ability to show the position of any train on a UK wide map fed by GPS data, Project Falcon also allows East Coast to assign responsibility for sub threshold delays and those delays that are below 3 minutes.
All trains should have the equipment fitted by mid-January 2012.
