Western Railroad Discussion > Artificial Intelligence and railcar inspections

The trade publication CIO has an infomercial on a product which purports to conduct inspections of rail cars as they pass the scanning point.  They claim 120 cars may be processed per minute with high speed scanning and deep computer server capacity.  It sounds great, with checks of many different hoses, wheel sets, door positions, etc.

In a broader view, the railroads already generate oceans of data on tractive effort at various points on the railroad for different loads, different locomotives, different engineer styles.  It will be interesting to see how that reservoir of information is eventually put to work

https://www.cio.com/article/3618847/ai-at-the-edge-keeps-trains-on-track.html

Oh this is an easy one! It will be put to work to eliminate jobs!

Off the top of my head, I can think of BNSF, UP, CN, and CSX that have had these installed. UP has had a version in since 2016. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLHs1Fs4b2o




Lackawanna484 Wrote:
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> The trade publication CIO has an infomercial on a
> product which purports to conduct inspections of
> rail cars as they pass the scanning point.  They
> claim 120 cars may be processed per minute with
> high speed scanning and deep computer server
> capacity.  It sounds great, with checks of many
> different hoses, wheel sets, door positions, etc.
>
> In a broader view, the railroads already generate
> oceans of data on tractive effort at various
> points on the railroad for different loads,
> different locomotives, different engineer
> styles.  It will be interesting to see how that
> reservoir of information is eventually put to
> work
>
> https://www.cio.com/article/3618847/ai-at-the-edge
> -keeps-trains-on-track.html