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- Automatic Equipment Identification
- AAR Industry Standard
- Radio Frequency Backscatter Technology
- 3,000+ Installations in United States
- 1.6 Million Rail Cars Tagged
- Proven Mature Technology
- The ability to identify and report car/locomotive and train movements
for the purpose of cost effective host system automation
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- Wheel Detectors for wheel counting and timing
- Presence detection for turning on and off an AEI site
- Antennas for reading the Amtech/Transcore AEI tags
- Radio Frequency Module for broadcasting and receiving data to and from
the tag
- Surge protection of the sub systems
- Batteries and charger
- Phone line protection
- Wheel Detector data manager
- Power management system
- Modem
- And a processing unit to develop a clean list and manage the over all
site as a system
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- Be informed, plan, and have a Goal
- Function or Purpose
- Equipment Selection
- Installation
- Data Receiving and Processing
- Host System Integration
- Training
- Maintenance
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- Terminals At entrances and exits and beyond normal switching
operations.
- Customer Gates To auto delivery or pull and with time offsets, place
and release.
- Industrial Leads Report pick up and set outs in route or to bunch
multiple customer reporting.
- Diesel & Maintenance Facilities Asset utilization of available
power and/or cars.
- Yard to Yard Transfer of equipment between yards and/or train movement
reporting.
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- Train Passing
- Train Arrival/Departure
- Interchange Delivered/Received
- Car Place/Spot, Pull/Release
- Train Pick Up and/or Set Out
- Locomotive Consist Verification and/or Correction
- Wayside System Integration (HBD, HWD, Dragging Equipment, High Wide
Load, Environmental, Scales
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- Train Consist Verification and/or Correction
- Trigger Report of 417, 418,
- Monitor Tag Health
- Monitor Train Speeds
- Trackage Rights Accounting
- Bridge Rights Accounting
- Tonnage Monitoring for Track Maintenance
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- Wheel Detectors
- Presence Detection
- Antenna and Installation
- Low Profile Antennas
- Installations
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- AEI was first integrated with stationary scales by SAI. Today, weigh in
motion scales have also been integrated by both SAI and Toledo.
- Hot Wheel / Hot Box detectors have been integrated by Southern
Technology (STC) as an upgrade or new.
- Low Hose, Dragging Equipment, High Wide also integrated by STC.
- SAIC has designed and built their Thermo-View Hot Wheel detector.
- Weather Station reporting by STC.
- Load Out facility coal, rock, grain, ore.
- Wheel Impact Load Detector (WILD), Sliding Wheel, and Remote Controlled
Locomotives.
- Intermodal Gate Operations by SAIC.
- Truck Gate and rubber wheel asset management STC.
- Even the exotic Gamma Ray inspection systems for DHS is integrated with
AEI.
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- Signal Computer Consultants of Pittsburgh, PA
- SAIC of Kansas City, MO
- STC Applications of Chattanooga, TN and Fort Worth, TX
- SAI Libertyville, IL
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