Automatic inventory of railway equipment

Charlie Solutions has provided Eiffage Rail with an innovative solution to efficiently locate and inventory high value equipment on over 100 rail construction and maintenance sites. By integrating ELA Innovation’s sensors into their IoT solution, Charlie Solutions is enabling Eiffage Rail to accurately track its equipment. Many subcontractors work on the same site, which can lead to unintentional exchanges, losses and even thefts. ELA Innovation and Charlie Solutions have deployed a solution on these sites that makes it possible to locate equipment, track its conformity and monitor stocks, with the aim of streamlining logistics operations.
I log on to the dashboard, go to my list of equipment and geolocate it. This lets me know where it is and which team has it. With our technicians, we have set up an alert system to receive notifications at programmed frequencies depending on the type of equipment. This enables us to optimise our maintenance monitoring and regulatory checks on our equipment.
Edris Pougetoux
Equipment Manager at Eiffage Rail
Charlie Solutions has provided Eiffage Rail with an innovative solution to efficiently locate and inventory high value equipment on over 100 rail construction and maintenance sites. By integrating ELA Innovation’s sensors into their IoT solution, Charlie Solutions is enabling Eiffage Rail to accurately track its equipment. Many subcontractors work on the same site, which can lead to unintentional exchanges, losses and even thefts. ELA Innovation and Charlie Solutions have deployed a solution on these sites that makes it possible to locate equipment, track its conformity and monitor stocks, with the aim of streamlining logistics operations.
I log on to the dashboard, go to my list of equipment and geolocate it. This lets me know where it is and which team has it. With our technicians, we have set up an alert system to receive notifications at programmed frequencies depending on the type of equipment. This enables us to optimise our maintenance monitoring and regulatory checks on our equipment.
Edris Pougetoux
Equipment Manager at Eiffage Rail

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✓Visualise the distribution of equipment in real time
✓Know quickly the available stocks
✓Monitor the entry and exit of storage areas
✓Monitor material conformity
From a technical point of view, the IoT equipment management solution is based on a set of Bluetooth beacons attached to each of the 460 pieces of equipment. Each piece of equipment is assigned a unique identification number. 1 wired gateway has been installed to monitor the equipment in the storage area, and when the equipment is deployed on site, the operators’ smartphones will act as trackers to ensure that it is located. The various items of equipment are detected automatically using the ‘Charlie Connect’ monitoring application, so no human action is required. The manager can easily control his fleet via the ‘Charlie Gestion’ IoT platform (PC & mobile) by creating dashboards and alerts when a device needs to be checked. In this way, they can find out in real time on which site a particular piece of equipment is located, whether it is stored in the warehouse, and the rate of use and conformity of the equipment. What’s more, each piece of equipment can be scanned using a QR code for instant access to its technical documentation.
✓Reducing equipment losses (locating equipment on site)
✓Improved equipment compliance rate
✓Documentary access in the field (user manuals and VGP)
✓Easier communication between operators

Equipment

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✓Location beacon autonomy of up to 5 years
✓Easy deployment of the solution
✓Robust beacons capable of withstanding shocks, water and dust
✓Pick to light function on beacons to locate equipment more easily
✓Reducing equipment losses (locating equipment on site)
✓Improved equipment compliance rate
✓Documentary access in the field (user manuals and VGP)
✓Easier communication between operators

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