Rail Products

Technology Assurance Labs began developing an AEI reader system for CSX rail yards in 2009. During our development we noticed that the existing AEI infrastructure was aging. It appeared little had been done to update the AEI architecture since the deployments in the 1990s. We identified opportunities to leverage advances in technology and to address the coming shortage of repair and replacement parts.

Over time, we have worked on many legacy architectures which needed creative thinking to refresh them and turn them into Next-Gen architectures— this is where Technology Labs excels. As a result of our analysis, Technology Assurance Labs decided to create the Trackside Train Build Verification System (TTBVS ©) aimed directly at deployments inside rail yards. TTBVS is currently installed in a large hump yard in the Southeast and has demonstrated read accuracies around 99%. This powerful system is capable of being adapted to handle an entire yard from a single point. 

Technology Assurance Labs continues to improve upon the design of the TTBVS.  In late 2010, we embarked on an effort to simplify the design, lower the cost, and increase the performance of this system.  The result is a new system design utilizing RFID readers from multiple manufacturers, centralized or distributed processing, onboard or offloaded I/O inputs, simplified installation options and the ability to install a unit where no commercial power or communication lines exist!