Focus
Line-scanning data captured by the AIVR Focus system provides an incredibly comprehensive capture of the track using underbody cameras, enhancing early detection of railway track anomalies and facilitating proactive maintenance to reduce faults on the tracks and prevent track wear and tear.
A Line Scanning System
AIVR Focus, a state-of-the-art Line Scanning system deployed on in-service and measurement vehicles, automatically captures and detects track conditions on conductor and plain track. This enables automated railway track inspection, allowing remote, detailed inspection using a safe, rapid, and reliable method.
This proactive maintenance approach helps to reduce catastrophic failure through earlier fault detection, which is critical for reducing operational disruptions and maximising performance.
Inspect Track Conditions on the AIVR Platform
AIVR Platform‘s specialist interface allows engineers to examine the areas of track they need to see.
AIVR Focus provides a complete package for engineers with a combination of data from Forward-Facing, Line-Scanning, Geospatial and additional Partner Location Systems, to precisely locate defects, assess track conditions and monitor change or deterioration over time.
This comprehensive approach to defect detection and localision improves the safety and reliability of rail travel, enabling maintenance teams to target specific areas for rapid response, thereby optimising maintenance schedules and resource allocation of resource.
Using AIVR, maintenance teams can make data-driven decisions to support track access planning, with the ability to export key data via spreadsheets and other open formats for teams to review and share.
Track Componentry Detection
Machine Learning developed with industry rail experts is applied to the high-definition imagery to enable the automatic detection of key track components such as fishplates, electrical cables, joints, welds, and other critical points of interest.
This advanced technology assesses the conditions of these assets and identifies potential ‘issues’ for further investigation, playing a crucial role in predicting railway track faults. By assessing the conditions of these assets and identifying potential ‘issues’ for further investigation, the system contributes significantly to the longevity of track components and helps in avoiding costly emergency repairs.
Low Adhesion Monitoring
An automated system on in-service vehicles that provides imagery and location information to enable digital examination of areas of railhead contamination.
Track Geometry
The integration of laser-based track geometry systems operates autonomously with AIVR. Data is made accessible via our powerful web-based frontend, alongside AIVR’s captured line-scanning imagery, optimising railway track geometry analysis. Geometry data is provided in Network Rail specific presentation.
The AIVR Focus system consists of:
- Underbody cameras, alongside forward facing and thermal, are deployed on in-service and measurement vehicles capturing incredibly comprehensive imagery of the track condition.
- Imagery and locational data is automatically transmitted and made available on the AIVR Platform for engineers to review, removing the requirement for boots on ballast.
- AIVR’s Machine Learning models automatically detect track components and defects, enabling quicker findings and decisions to be made where infrastructure issues are identified.
A number of measurement and in-service vehicles within the UK are outfitted with AIVR Focus devices. Each system is easily configurable to align with specific capture requirements, ensuring versatility and precision.
What our partners say about us
"A process that could easily take days can be completed in a fraction of the time, allowing us to build up or renewals and minor works portfolio for the appropriate levels of funding as it becomes available."
Network Rail
Asset Engineer (Telecoms)
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Not only does it remove boots on ballast but we are also able to increase productivity through extended route coverage in a much shorter space of time whilst the track is live. The safety aspects speak for themselves."
Network Rail
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“I genuinely believe it will become an essential tool for Network Rail to deliver its maintenance obligations with regards to cable route, and will enable us to focus on defects and rectify them in a more time effective and cost-effective manner.”
Network Rail
Senior Asset Engineer, Telecoms
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“We can now cover the entire ELR in the course of an afternoon.”
Network Rail
E&P Principal Technical Officer
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"Big fan of using AIVR a a tool whilst on duty in control. Whether that's to get W3W for any ongoing incident, we used it last night to find a building that had encroached into NR land, so many possibilites especially with videos being uploaded onto the database so quickly."
Network Rail
Incident Controller
"Very good equipment to have to give us a heads-up before the patrols are due as some of these faults may not have been seen for a few months until the patrols are completed. I can now plan ahead and get the faults checked and the work completed before it effects the running of any passenger train."
Network Rail
Section Supervisor CRE
"The AIVR technology has evolved rapidly to give us real-time insight on the network to aid planning and maintenance, to keep our colleagues safer and trains on the move."
Network Rail
Wayne Cherry, Senior Innovations Engineer
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"Great solution that’s enabled early planning of work sites in a controlled space prior to going trackside - reducing exposure to the railway environment and improving site knowledge."
Construction Manager
"We have found the AIVR software really useful and a great tool to assist us with our Signalling Design projects!"
DigiSig Rail Group
Russell Simpson
"GGP find the AIVR system to be a useful and user friendly tool for both increasing our pre-site survey spatial awareness around proposed assets and obtaining a base understanding of the lie of the land for our many long linear projects."
GGP Consult
Euan Allison, Principal Civil Engineer
"We think it is a great tool and really helps us with our planning – we are just scratching the surface of using it “properly,” I think so expect to get more value as we go."
Kent Group
Robert Kent, Operations Director
"AIVR by One Big Circle has enabled our planning and site teams to gain a better understanding of site conditions and layout before attending the location due to the availability of regularly updated high quality footage."
Kier
Anthony Brooks, Senior Planning Manager
"AIVR is a good tool for Access Point work, such as identification of track entrance Stairs and Platform ends. I have used AIVR to support already collected data with further verification confirmation."
Network Data Manager
"It really is a massive benefit having such a vast coverage of cab footage without the hassle of having to arrange track access and often drive hundreds of miles in the process."
Operations Director
"We find the AIVR system to be a useful and user friendly tool for both increasing our pre-site survey spatial awareness around proposed assets and obtaining a base understanding of the lie of the land for our many long linear projects."
Principal Civil Engineer
"It really is a massive benefit having such a vast coverage of cab footage without the hassle of having to arrange track access and often drive hundreds of miles in the process."
QTS
Barry McLeish, Operations Director
"Its been a great tool for me to use and has saved on having to carry out site visits all of the time and with more and more videos being added there is good choice most of the time when looking at a specific area."
QTS
Jamie Mcllvaney, Isolations Manager
"We feel that we have plenty to offer on this sustainability journey and AiVR is certainly part of that ability to reduce our carbon footprint."
Ramboll
"AIVR by One Big Circle has enabled our planning and site teams to gain a better understanding of site conditions and layout before attending the location due to the availability of regularly updated high quality footage."
Senior Planning Manager
"Great solution that’s enabled early planning of work sites in a controlled space prior to going trackside - reducing exposure to the railway environment and improving site knowledge."
Siemens
Construction Manager
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"AIVR has become an essential component of our POS planning process."
Shovlin Plant Hire
Gaby
"Ease of use and an extensive video library made for rapid deployment of this tool to the project teams. Gives an up-to-date window view into project environments."
Siemens
Project Manager
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"I am involved in 11 signal sighting projects and in the last 18 months I only visited site once due to the clarity of the footage on AIVR."
Signal Sighter
"AIVR has helped me with signal sighting activities on a number of schemes, where alternative footage was not readily available."
VolkerRail
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"….this is an Ideal tool, points out everything in the site that could be a hazard, and can be used to aid the site briefings too."
Story Plant
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"AIVR gives us 100% visibility from each site, whereas before we'd be lucky if we were to see 50% of the site."
Story Plant
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