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OBB
Infrastructure, Transport & Energy
RAILPOWER
BOX
The energy metering system
for the railway of the future.
The Railpower box is the leading energy metering
system in Europe and enables environmentally
friendly Energy Management through clear,
minute by minute calculation of locomotive
electricity demand. The specially developed user
interface, the railpower client, gives improved
and faster called-up of information by the user.
The railpower client is a web application that
allows data collected from the railpower box to
be readily visualized.
OBB-Infrastruktur AG has developed the railpower
box as an electrical energy metering system for
traction vehicles that captures energy consumption
per train and country in real-time. With the
railpower box, energy and location data for international
rail traffic is combined and stored in a central database.
The recorded data is used for current electricity billing for
trains both in Austria and in other countries, including
payment settlement with other infrastructure operators.
ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG makes this data available to
other infrastructure managers based on international standards.
In addition, the railpower box has been designed
and configured for future development to meet all current
and planned international guidelines, according to UIC
Leaflet 930, from CENELEC TCX9 WG11 to EN 50463.
National requirements, such as the measurement
and calibration act and the regulation of individual
infrastructure operators, have also been taken into account
with the railpower box. Moreover the railpower
box is certified by a notified body and approved throughout
Europe.
Because transparency matters
The railpower box enables transparency and cost savings
compared to conventional flat rate billing, due to
the fully automatic detection of the exact track electricity
consumption by train and by country. The information
is always available online via the internet through
the railpower client user-interface application. Among
other data, a representation of the load profile, and total
consumption etc. is available. Furthermore, data can be
downloaded in different formats and as a representation
of spatial data via Google Earth.
The capture of the actual consumption by each traction
unit and by each country is enabled through GPS.
Using the data gathered, energy evaluation and management
decisions can be carried out. Billing payment, on
the basis of logged data, is made in different countries,
with return feed-in to the grid also being taken into account.
Border crossings are recorded using GPS, allowing
consumption to be allocated by country or region.
Energy metering by means of the railpower box meets
all international requirements. >>
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