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NIKSAR DEVELOPS COMPACT & ROBUST INSTRUMENTATION UNIT (for remote applications)

Niksar has developed a conditioning monitoring system that incorporates :

bulleta single board processor with an 800MHz CPU
bulleta data acquisition functionality with analogue and digital inputs and outputs
bulletuses an embedded Windows® operating system
bulletinstrumentation and data capture functionality and analysis written in National Instruments LabVIEW®
bulletI/O protection and isolation
bulletPower requirements : DC power supply input - 16 W nominal for full speed capture and reporting and a reduced power mode (less than 1 W average) for remote installations
bulletan IEEE 802.11 WiFi connection option for short range networking
bulleta GPRS/2.5G connection option for long range M2M connections
bulletfirmware updating and configuration changes implemented remotely.

 

NIKSAR DEVELOPS AN ATOMIC CLOCK MONITORING UNIT FOR NETWORK TIMING INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT

Niksar has engineered and developed a system allowing network timing reference clocks to be monitored and compared to GPS-derived timing references. This system has an ability to measure the time drifts of up to two (Caesium) atomic clocks relative to a high performance GPS-derived reference. The resolution of the processed timing data is sub-nanosecond.

The timing comparison system uses a National Instruments 2-channel simultaneously sampling high speed digitiser operating at 250 MS/sec (NI PCI 5114 or similar). The application is a dynamically-linked executable module (.dll) written in LabVIEW® for use with any calling language.

The reliability of this implementation has been demonstrated after 18 months in service producing comparative timing data for the primary reference clocks at several locations in a communication network.

NIKSAR UPGRADES HV INSULATOR POLLUTION MONITORING SYSTEM

 

Niksar Australia Pty Ltd in association with Magshield Products (Aust.) Int. P/L and RIZNER Pty Ltd has substantially upgraded and enhanced the insulator pollution and monitoring system which was previously developed and supplied to the market by Magshield Products (Aust.) Int. P/L.

The insulator pollution monitoring system is based on the principle of measuring the leakage current that flows on the surface of a high voltage insulator with accumulated layer of conductive pollution.

 

The main features of the upgraded Leakage Current Monitoring System (LCMS) are:

bulletWireless and secure communication link between the leakage current LCMS sensor modules and the base station.
bulletSmart LCMS sensor with data processing ability and control functions.
bulletFaster sampling rate.
bulletExpanded number of LCMS channels per module.

The upgraded system relies on wirelessly connected multiple insulator pollution monitoring modules - LCMS modules, weather data logging, and remote actuation of insulator wetting module.

Robust surge and transient protection is a feature of the remote monitoring units and strong encryption is a feature of the wireless data transmission and control channels.

All data is processed and analysed at the remote collection points - LC sensors and summary data passed to the base station using WiFi (IEEE 802.11b/g standard wireless) technology.

LCMS Remote Module

 

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NIKSAR UPGRADES AUTOMATIC TRAIN PROTECTION (ATP) ANTENNA

Westinghouse Rail Systems Australia (WRSA) has contracted Niksar to engineer and implement a significant upgrade to the existing ATP antenna to provide higher levels of functionality, reliability and maintainability.

The new antenna fits on the undercarriage of a locomotive, and employs OEM RFID technology to detect and read rail line embedded passive tags as the locomotive passes over them at any speed up to 160 km/h. A host control and monitoring system can connect directly through an RS422 serial interface, eliminating the need for RF connections and feeds.

The antenna housing is IP67 rated and qualified against railways physical and electromagnetic environment Standards, and provides a self-contained unit that is robust and reliable requiring minimal maintenance in service. 

      

The design and integration engineering involved many activities including:

bulletdesign and production of an electronic interface module that provides high levels of isolation from external electrical and electromagnetic influences.
bullettest engineering for full qualification testing to railways environmental specifications (physical environment and electromagnetic)
bulletproduction of pre-production prototype units for field testing as a part of the WRSA Westect II ATP system
bulletconversion of the chassis structure from a casting to an NC machined product
bulletthe redevelopment of the assembly, alignment and test procedures
bulletthe development of automated production acceptance test facilities

The first batch of these items is to be installed this year under locomotives for testing in the tropical north of Australia with production for fleet installation to follow.

The new TRM provides a self-contained unit that is robust and reliable that requires minimal maintenance in service. It is mounted under various locomotives to collect data from track-mounted RFID tags at any speed up to 160 km/h.

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