Why data has become strategic for securing rail infrastructures
In a sector as strategic as rail transportation, the reliability of infrastructure leaves no room for approximation. Passenger safety, traffic fluidity, and service continuity depend directly on operators’ ability to monitor, analyze, and anticipate even the smallest incidents.
This reality, shared by many industry experts, has notably been highlighted in an article published by LeRail.com , which emphasizes how data capture and exploitation contribute to securing critical rail infrastructures.
The growing complexity of rail infrastructures
Rail networks rely on a dense and highly technical infrastructure: tracks, switches, substations, signaling systems, sensors, and onboard systems. All these components must operate in perfect synergy, without failure.
However, the ongoing modernization of rail networks is increasing complexity for operators, who must now anticipate failures in order to guarantee both safety and operational efficiency.
Industrial IoT serving network reliability
To address these challenges, rail stakeholders increasingly rely on real-time data acquisition through Industrial IoT devices capable of:
- Continuously monitoring network conditions
- Detecting weak signals (wear, vibrations, anomalies)
- Triggering preventive alerts
- Optimizing maintenance operations
This approach enables the deployment of predictive maintenance strategies, helping to reduce downtime while improving responsiveness in the event of incidents.
Managing a multiprotocol environment
One of the major challenges in the rail sector lies in the heterogeneity of equipment. Multiple communication protocols coexist, including OPC UA, Modbus, RS-485, MQTT, and others.
It is therefore essential to deploy an interoperable infrastructure capable of enabling communication between all systems and centralizing supervision across the entire rail network.
DevI/O: the industrial communication gateway at the heart of the ecosystem
To meet these requirements, Technilog offers a proven solution: DevI/O, a multiprotocol, multi-application, and multichannel industrial communication gateway.
DevI/O enables organizations to:
- Unify communications between equipment and business applications
- Collect field data from a wide range of protocols
- Secure data exchanges end to end
- Supervise installations through a centralized interface
- Feed systems such as SCADA, CMMS, cybersecurity, and monitoring platforms
Reliable, robust, and scalable, DevI/O is already deployed in critical environments across the transport, energy, industrial, and smart city sectors.
The DevI/O Communication Gateway
The DevI/O communication gateway connects, unifies, and secures data exchanges between equipment and applications, ensuring seamless, reliable, and high-performance integration within industrial systems.
Security, continuity, and operational traceability
Thanks to intelligent data collection, rail operators can:
- Ensure uninterrupted operations
- Respond in real time to any anomaly
- Provide full traceability of events
- Strengthen the cybersecurity of their systems
In other words, data becomes a key driver of performance, security, and resilience.
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The website LeRail.com recently highlighted the digital transformation of the rail sector and the importance of innovative tools such as those developed by Technilog.
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How data capture and exploitation help secure critical rail transport infrastructures – LeRail.com
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