DfT TRIG Digital Maintenance Project
Enabling safe and reliable digital maintenance in rail: a proof-of-concept technology demonstrator delivered by RazorSecure and the University of Birmingham's BCRRE.
With funding from the UK Department for Transport TRIG (Transport Research and Innovation Grant) and supported by Connected Places Catapult, the project ran from March to September 2022. This page remains open as evidence of the project and for updates on potential further development.
What the project set out to do
The project set out to demonstrate a proof-of-concept for secure maintenance operations that integrates with legacy and new-build rail vehicles and protects the integrity and reliability of passenger services. It addressed three 'Safety Related Application Control' requirements for passenger trains, reducing the poorly managed software and digital-maintenance errors that led to urgent rail safety alerts in the UK in 2021. The challenges are common to freight too, and freight-industry input is welcome.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
A second goal was raising awareness of EDI, deaf awareness in particular. Read what we learnt: EDI at RazorSecure · Implementing EDI principles into our projects · Feedback from the deaf community and the rail industry.
Outcome
The proof of concept matured into our Digital Maintenance Gateway product: eliminating dedicated service laptops, making better use of skilled maintenance staff and improving on-board cyber security through a managed point of access.
Project update archive and videos are available on request: maintenance-project@razorsecure.com.