Hitachi Rail’s strategic collaboration with NVIDIA means HMAX digital services will now be accelerated by the NVIDIA IGX™ industrial-grade, edge AI platform, delivering robust edge AI computing on trains and assets across the railway ecosystem.
Acceleration of solution development via
NVIDIA’s AI frameworks
NVIDIA and Hitachi Digital’s software engineering experts
This combined expertise, along with that of Hitachi Digital’s AI COE and software engineering, is set to empower our customer base across 51 countries globally through faster, more powerful AI capabilities from edge to cloud.
NVIDIA + Hitachi Rail catenary and pantograph monitoring use case:
By using the industrial-grade NVIDIA IGX platform with NVIDIA Holoscan for real-time sensor processing, the massive volumes of video data from train fitted Pantograph Cameras (pan cams) can be processed and managed at the edge (on the trains or infrastructure) in real -time, with only relevant information sent back to the operational control centres.
Prior to the deployment of these AI enhancements, Pan Cam systems could take up to ten days to process all the data that the train collected in a single day.
With the new solution, the AI systems can process the information in real-time, providing valued, timely insights about overhead line conditions.