EUROPE - European railway freight carrier, DB Cargo, will use embedded IoT enablement technology from Eurotech to gain insight on the real-time status of its locomotive fleet.

DB Cargo will use Eurotech’s BoltGATE 20-25 IoT Edge gateway to gain real-time insights on its locomotives.

A subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, DB Cargo is said to be Europe’s market-leader in rail freight transport.

The Germany headquartered company has around 4,200 rail sidings, 93,000 freight wagons, and 3,000 locomotives.

As part of investing in the technology of the future, DB Cargo is digitalising its locomotives, freight cars and processes in the marshalling yards and workshops.

It will install Eurotech’s BoltGATE 20-25 as the intelligent IoT Edge gateway on at least 450 vehicles.

The vendor says this railway-certified on-board computer is designed to meet the demanding requirements of rolling stock installations.

It is said to provide on-board functions for safe non-invasive signal sampling and recording of multifunction vehicle bus data, as well as features for real-time data communication.

The BoltGATE 20-25 is powered by Eurotech’s Everyware Software IoT Edge framework.

DB Cargo will also leverage the vendor’s Everyware Cloud IoT integration platform.