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DS3: Country-wide Data Center

Centralized interlockings and Radio Block Center (RBCs) for an entire country, geographical redundancy ensuring the utmost availability and punctuality, and sustainable cost reduction: Moving the control logic to the cloud provides the key.

Signaling X: We transform countries and cities

With Signaling X, we are opening the DS3-ecosystem for further Siemens applications, making it scalable and improving our customer´s operational efficiency by up to 20%.

Shift your rail infrastructure to the cloud

Revolutionizing rail infrastructure technology: Safety-relevant rail applications in the cloud

The next step toward an entirely digitally networked rail infrastructure: Infrastructure in the Cloud. Making it possible to run safety-relevant logic applications on standard multicore processors instead of proprietary hardware, the DS3 platform provides the basis for moving interlockings and radio block centers to the cloud. It is compatible with existing systems and supports current standards like Eulynx or Neupro. It paves the way for a cost-efficient country-wide infrastructure management approach with seamless geo-redundancy of one data center.

DS3 increases availability and punctuality while meeting the highest safety standards in operation.

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One data center for an entire country

The scalable DS3 platform is the basic building block for flexible solutions that bundle the tasks of all interlockings for one customer in one railway cloud and enable the highest availability through georedundancy.

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Easy migration

Railway operators’ existing software applications and services can easily be migrated to the Infrastructure in the Cloud for further use. A system migration does not require any extensive new investments.

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Safety Integrity level for the mobility cloud

Cloud-ready rail infrastructure applications based on the DS3 platform are safe and reliable. They correspond to SIL4, the highest level of safety integrity.

With the new platform DS3 we are utilizing digitalization and cloud solutions to centralize rail components in rail infrastructure in an unprecedented way.

Driving down the number of rail applications with one solution

The “Distributed Smart Safe System”, DS3 for short, is the first platform in the world that enables the usage of commercially available and state of the art multicore CPUs. It enables to process safety-relevant logic applications for rail operations while maintaining the highest level of safety.

This eliminates the need for proprietary hardware that was required for interlockings in the past. Existing safety-relevant rail applications and services can be migrated and run in a data center in a safe and secure manner, in this way enabling the bundling of all interlockings in one data center for easier infrastructure management.

Infrastructure in the Cloud provides the basis for seamless geographical redundancy to increase availability by reducing downtime in case of data center failure. It helps to further increase punctuality, reduces life cycle costs, and ushers in the next step toward an entirely digitally networked rail infrastructure with just a few elements such as point machines and balises remaining in the field, while all other components (e.g. axle counters, track circuits) disappear.

From state-of-the-art to Infrastructure in the Cloud: The evolution of signaling

The technical evolution of signaling and interlocking technology is accompanied with the increasing need for digitalization. This enables centralization and thus geographical independence. Numerous on-site interlockings can ultimately merge into a single, completely site-independent, and cloud-based interlocking for an entire country that is characterized by maximum availability thanks to geo-redundancy.

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State-of-the-art signaling

  • Conventional radial cabling
  • Decentralized interlocking architecture
  • Proprietary hardware
  • 6.5 km range
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Digitalized signaling

  • Centralized interlocking architecture
  • Unlimited control distances 
  • IP-based communication to decentrally distributed secure object controllers
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Cloud-based signaling

  • Usage of commercially available multicore HW
  • Substantial reduction of hardware components
  • Highest availability thanks to geo-redundancy

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