General description
Railnova's was founded in 2010 to serve the growing Rail Fleet Management Market in Europe. With increasing fragmentation and liberalization in the European Rail market, Railway Actors face new challenges in managing their locomotive, passenger train or wagon fleets as they expand into news geographies to offer end-to-end services. Railnova has developed and commercializes a suite of telematics hardware and web based software that enables intelligent fleet management for Railways
Developed products
Railnova’s Railster™ Telematics and Railfleet™ Software is the only all-in-one, plug & play, adaptative telematics and software solution available for the railway fleet management market.. The Railster hardware Telematics is a suite of easy to implement, rail-certified embedded hardware to monitor passenger train, locomotive or wagon position, as well as crucial parameters such diesel engine parameters or component bus information (Can BUS, RS485, RS232). The data collected is immediately visible and processed in the Railfleet Software by the end users. Railfleet is based on the revolutionary OpenERP Framework which enables fast application development, easy adoption among the organization and unprecedented user experience due to OpenERP revolutionary Web Client. User productivity and ROI are guaranteed due to full integration of fleet management processes within one single system.
The Railfleet Mobile extension is a fully scalable mobile framework that enables to port server-side ERP apps on smartphones or tablets. Our metadata framework enables to align mobile and ERP database applications so we can provide continuous evolutivity to end users.
The key feature of Railfleet Software modules for OpenERP are:
• Rail Operations Management
• Geolocalisation, integrated Map View, track, trace,
• Geographical Reporting
• Alert Engine (geofencing, parameters), workflows
• Mutli-company access for Operator, Maintainer, Lessor
Rail Fleet Management :
• Train Roster Optimiser for optimal fleet allocation
• Preventive Planning, based on telematics information
• Corrective Maintenance & remote diagnosis
• Integrated Checklists and documentation management
• Fleet availability
• Modifications, Warranties
• Safety Campaigns
Rail Fleet Contracts Management
• Reporting to Owners, Authorities
• Lease, sublease, insurance, Maintenance, transport
• Reccuring billing, billing on counters (pay per use)
• CRM, reinvoicing of works or based on timesheets
Targets and references
Type of Clients:
• Rail Freight Operators
• Rail Passenger Operators
• Rail Leasing Companies
• Rail Maintenance Companies
References:
• Europorte, Group Eurotunnel
• CFL Cargo, Group Arcelor Mittal
• VFLI, Group SNCF
• SNCB Logistics, Group SNCB
• NS Hispeed, Group NS
• Société Générale
Innovative aspects/ Advantages
Railster Telematics provide real-time GPS information and can connect to the major train sub-systems. The Railfleet software can replace countless legacy systems and excel tables, due to its full integration in OpenERP. Evolutivity and connectivity to Customer’s existing systems, such as Microsoft, Oracle or SAP enables further process automation. Both Railnova’s hardware and software solution can be deployed in as short as a few weeks and enables real process automation in rail fleet management. Traditionnal rail fleet management projects are conducted with separate hardware suppliers, M2M providers and IT companies, which leaves the system integration risk to the end customer. This usually results in poor system functionality, cost overruns, and prohibits future evolutivity due to extremely high maintenance costs. With it’s all-in-one hardware + software solution based on opensource plateforms, Railnova can focus efforts on what matters most to its customers, such as acquiring specific data on the train or implementing a particular software functionality. The Customer can spend the majority of his budget on customization of the proven Railnova solution, which in turn guarantees success and adoption.
