Etalon

ETALON (Energy harvesting for signalling and communication systems)... is a Shift2Rail IP2 Open Call project within the Horizon 2020 Programmme of the European Commission.

ETALON will contribute to the enhancement of train integrity functionalities, providing a suitable energy supply for on-board train integrity and a robust radio communication system between vehicles that could be the basis for a train integrity check.

ETALON will also contribute to the reduction of cost, providing an energy harvesting solution for Smart Radio connected wayside objects and implementing an off-board radio communication system with object controllers that could minimize trackside infrastructure, particularly cabling.

Etalon is structured in 7 work packages that covers all the essential aspects of an R&D project: Management (WP1), Design & Specification (WP2), Development (WP3/WP4/WP6), Validation & Test (WP5), and Exploitation & Dissemination (WP7).

ETALON (Energy harvesting for signalling and communication systems) is a Shift2Rail IP2 Open Call project within the Horizon 2020 Programmme of the European Commission. ETALON will contribute to the enhancement of train integrity functionalities,providing a suitable energy supply for on-board train integrity (particularly targeted at cases where trains do not have any power supply available on the wagons) and a robust radio communication system between vehicles that could be the basis for a train integrity check.

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ETALON Final Conference February 2020 Brussels 28 February 2020 The ETALON consortium has organised the project's Final Conference on Tuesday 25th February 2020. The event gathered participants, including project consortium members and stakeholders from the rail industry. The first session of the event included welcomes from Lea Paties (Shift2Rail ...

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Stakeholders Meeting-On-board Train Integrity (OTI) prototype January 2020 Turin 28 February 2020 On 28th January the Etalon consortium organized a Stakeholders meeting to present the main achievements, results and exported issues for future results exploitation of OTI prototype. In addition, a demonstration in a Car park was shown to demonstrate the wagon permutation and main ...

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Relevant Environment Test November 2019 Athens 27 February 2020 During the time from 13th to 14th November thetests in relevant environment took place at the Thriasio Freight Centre inAthens, Greece. Both the OTI vibration energy harvested and the communicationsystem were tested. A previous assembling of the nodes for both system wasrequested. All tests ...

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Controlled Environment Test April 2019 Barrow Hill 27 February 2020 During the time from 17th to 18th April the tests in controlled environment took place in Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre (Chesterfield, UK) using static vehicles and low speed train movements.This site is an active railway depot with a maximum line speed of 16km/h within the yard ...

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Consumption Tests February 2019 Southampton (Perpetuum Premises) 27 February 2020 During two days the foreseen consumption tests in the scope of WP5 took place in Southampton at Perpetuum premises. The Power Consumption tests were planned for and carried out at Perpetuum’s premises where there was access to controllable electro-mechanical shakers and precise power delivery and ...

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KOM (19 Sept Brussels) 23 November 2017 ETALON (Energy Harvesting for Signalling and Communication Systems) project kick-off event was held on Tuesday, 19 September, in Brussels. The event gathered all the project consortium members and the coordinators of IP2 complementary projects (X2Rail1 and X2RAIL2). Philippe Citroën, UNIFE ...

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