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Dec 29, 2020Belgian rail-freight company Lineas is tracking its fleet of railcars (which it calls wagons) with a wireless sensor-based system that captures data regarding each car s location via wireless sensor tags and gateways. With Internet of Thing (IoT) technology provided by Bosch, the company says it is able to increase its efficiency and sustainability by identifying bottlenecks, properly routing wagons to maintenance and identifying any under-utilized cars.
The tagging of railcars with 2G cellular, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M-based gateways is now under way, the company reports, and by the end of the year, it expects to have tagged 2,600 of its 7,000 railcars. To date, Lineas says the technology has improved the utilization of its fleet by more than 40 percent. Headquartered in Brussels, Lineas is Europe s largest private rail-freight operator, serving Western Europe with trains and wagons that transport steel, chemicals, automotive products and other freight.