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 transmits track conditions. This enables automated railway track inspection, allowing remote, detailed inspection using a safe, rapid, and reliable method.
AIVR Focus is adept at inspecting both plain line and conductor rail track, pivotal in reducing operational disruptions and extending track life.
Track Componentry Detection
The AIVR Focus system utilises underbody cameras for line-scanning, providing a highly comprehensive capture of the railway track.
Machine Learning is applied to this high-definition imagery, enabling the automatic detection of key track components such as fishplates, electrical cables, welds, and other critical points of interest. This advanced technology plays 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.
Combined with FFV, geospatial and additional partner location systems, AIVR Focus grants users the ability to precisely locate defects, unknown objects, or wet beds on the track. This comprehensive approach to defect detection and localisation 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.
Track Geometry
The integration of laser-based track geometry systems with AIVR Focus operates autonomously. 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.
How AIVR Focus Video is Captured:
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. These systems are fully automated, eliminating the need for an on-train technician. This automation allows for the data to be accessed entirely remotely, streamlining the diagnostic process. By enabling efficient and remote railway track diagnostics, AIVR Focus significantly reduces operational costs.
What our partners say about us
"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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