At
InnoTrans 2024 — the international trade fair for transport technology taking place in Berlin from 24-27 September —
Siemens Mobility will showcase the rail industry’s ‘huge potential to reduce society’s overall carbon footprint, with digitalisation as a key enabler’; achieving this includes optimising maintenance, maximising the use of existing infrastructure, and providing solutions for seamless travel.
Siemens said: “One of the largest barriers to a full-hearted adoption of digitalisation is vast quantities of data locked in closed systems. The answer lies in accessing these data via standardised application programming interfaces (APIs) and connecting them with AI-driven analysis and evaluation tools. As a leading provider of technology, Siemens Mobility has identified around 100 APIs within the rail ecosystem and has already fully developed a dozen of them.”
Michael Peter, Siemens Mobility’s CEO, added: “
InnoTrans 2024 is the next chapter in our digitalisation journey that began in 2018. We will demonstrate the latest innovations that deliver 100% availability of trains, maximised network capacity, and improvements to the customer experience to reach up to 100% occupancy. We will bring connectivity to the next level by making software more modular, using standardised APIs, and move software modules into the cloud for digital solutions that deliver for our customers, passengers and our planet.”
Highlighted at the show will be a Siemens Mobility’s collaborative project with Munich’s regional train operator,
S-Bahn Munich. This will demonstrate functions like fleet control, on-train applications, remote train wake-up and software updates, and AI-based maintenance systems with Railigent X.
Also highlighted will be many other features that are made possible with Siemens Mobility’s ‘standardised ecosystem approach’, which allows data from different sources to be integrated via APIs.
Mr Peter concluded: “As a result, some of the technologies on the new Munich S-Bahn are provided by Siemens Mobility directly, while others developed by the operator themselves or even competitors. That is collaborative innovation towards a shared goal: to promote rail as the best and most sustainable mode of travel for everyone.”