Automatic identification is almost a must with train weighing, since it is almost always done in motion and it is very impractical to stop the train at each boogie.
Benefits include enhanced productivity, increased safety and fully unattended operation. This also eliminates the costs and hazards of uncoupling and positioning each wagon for weighing.
Automatic detection of locomotives and wagon types assure efficient unattended operation. The Scirocco RFID system automatically detects individual railwagons as they cross the scale and provides transaction reports of both individual rail wagons and the entire train. Our readers offers I/O interfaces for convenient connection to inductive wheel detectors.
Individual rail wagon weights are obtained without uncoupling wagons, and train total weights can be automatically calculated. Rail wagon identification information from a tag is integrated into the weighing record. The controller can then automatically store and print weight information for any length train, even those exceeding several hundred wagons, and provide data storage for hundreds of trains.
In a chemical plant for instance, proprietary chemical containers may enter the plant via railway wagons, being lifted off and eventually filled with chemical products, and then leave the plant on a truck that drives across a truck scale. With Scirocco RFID systems, the plant can always know which containers that are inside the plant, whether they were empty at arrival, and which have been delivered out and at what weight.