CFL chose the BaliseLifeCheck to maintain the Eurobalises on its national ETCS network.
The BaliseLifeCheck has been be set up on Robel maintenance vehicles, in a water-proof enclosure, transferrable from one vehicle to the other and integrated with Expandium’s QATS Drive Test’s solution. The Expandium’s QATS Drive Test enables to measure the quality of the GSM-R network providing all necessary KPIs.
ERTMS Solutions’ LifeCheck product line is a preventive maintenance set of tools, which equips any type of trains, fitted or not with ETCS. It automates the track assets maintenance, enables to generate alarms, produces extremely detailed signal quality information and reports when it passes over a balise (eg. Eurobalises and KVB) or any type of track circuit (eg. TVM430) and magnetic systems (eg. Crocodile and AWS).
Expandium’s QATS Drive Test is a key component in the track line validation and operational process as it provides all the necessary KPIs for ETCS and non ETCS lines. It collects data from onboard call-generating equipment. The solution can gather data from third-party drive test manufacturers. QATS Drive Test provide metrics such Voice Call Quality, Subset-093 measurements, Data Transmission Quality, Radio RxQual & RxLev, Eirene SLAs and more KPIs and KQIs.