Rhomberg Sersa Rail Holding GmbH
“IoT boosts construction processes”
Christian Schollenberger, Global Head of IT
The story in brief:
Swisscom supports Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group with an end-to-end IoT solution to increase the efficiency of construction workflows.
Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group is a leading international full-service railway engineering provider. It harnesses innovation to optimise its processes, using an IoT solution from Swisscom and Microsoft to collect, analyse and evaluate positional and operating data from its equipment.
The challenge: create a database to simulate construction workflows
The time frames for maintaining and working on the railway infrastructure are narrow and often during the night. Carrying out this work efficiently requires meticulous planning covering all eventualities.
“To do this successfully, we are reliant on a comprehensive database,” says Christian Schollenberger, Global Head of IT at Rhomberg Sersa. “We need to know where different pieces of machinery can be deployed, their motion patterns and their power.” This means that machines and trains need to be able to “talk”. The company was looking for a partner for the entire IoT solution, encompassing data processing, device management, connectivity and data analytics.
“A tailored IoT solution resulting from close collaboration.”
Christian Schollenberger, Global Head of IT, Rhomberg Sersa Rail Holding GmbH
An end-to-end IoT solution
The company needed a tailor-made solution. Christian Schollenberger, his crew and Swisscom’s IoT specialists focused on the demanding challenges faced in this specific use case. The outcome was the end-to-end IoT solution they had envisaged. “The sensor data is transferred to our Azure IoT Hub via Swisscom,” says Christian Schollenberger, explaining the process. “The data is processed, analysed, enhanced and entered into a database and then visualised.”
The insights gained enable faster, more cost-effective workflows in several different countries. A vision for the future: “We would like to be able to simulate the entire construction workflow in advance!”