Near-real-time monitoring and availability

Echo

Monitor the availability and status of your on-board train systems and wayside infrastructure, across your fleets, in near real time.

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Overview

What it does

Modern trains carry hundreds of IT and OT systems that are hard to monitor and configure. Echo centralises monitoring of a fleet's entire collection of on-board systems, giving you an accurate view of status and availability: near-real-time when the vehicle is connected, store-and-forward when it is not.

Echo identifies problematic assets and configuration mismatches in collected data, which improves both performance and security across on-board and wayside estates. Deployment quantities and scaling limits are confirmed for each customer architecture.

Benefits

Key benefits

Know the state of every system

Accurate, current information on device configuration, availability and performance for fast remediation.

One record of the estate

System availability and configuration in a single view, regardless of vendor or fleet.

Fast troubleshooting

Combine historic and current data to find the root cause of persistent problems.

Reduce costs & increase asset life

Detect faults and trends early, so you fix the correct systems first and keep assets in service longer.

Capabilities

Key capabilities

Discovery protocols & threshold filtering

Assets monitored via ICMP, SNMP or edge-agent data points, with configurable thresholds and alerting.

Network visibility & monitoring

Passive and active monitoring identifies outages, failed devices and performance issues.

Reporting capabilities

Fleet-level reporting for operations, engineering and compliance.

Configuration drift detection

Continuous configuration data highlights deviation from the approved state and supports tracking of updates across fleets.

Vendor-agnostic

Monitors Ethernet- or MVB-based systems across suppliers and fleets.

Enhances Dashboard

Availability data joins fleet status and security information in one view.

Westermo Viper rugged on-board Ethernet switch
Echo runs on compatible existing on-board hardware, including Westermo switches, or on RazorSecure hardware.
Role in The Secure Train

Know the state of every asset

Echo is the asset and configuration visibility layer of The Secure Train: availability, inventory and drift data become part of the same operational security picture.

See the full architecture
Operator SOC / SIEM CEF feeds · REST API · SOAR / CMDB RazorSecure Cloud · Dashboard Customer teams · optional analyst service Encrypted, prioritised store-and-forward On-board External interfaces Passenger Wi-Fi LTE / 5G · GSM-R Depot & shore Untrusted SECURITY GATEWAY Safety-critical CAN · MVB buses Delta · MVB IDS TCMS Train control & monitoring Delta Comfort CCTV · PIS · HVAC Delta Passenger Wi-Fi · infotainment Delta Passive monitoring plane: Delta detection & Echo asset status from every zone, no interference with train control Digital Maintenance Gateway: MFA · secure software updates Maintenance engineers: named users, agreed time windows

Plan your integration

A data-point catalogue listing every monitorable parameter is available on request.

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Near-real-time visibility when connected

Talk to our engineering team

Bring your programme requirements, fleet architecture and risk assessment, including any penetration-test findings. We help train builders meet their operators’ specifications and help operators plan security improvements to existing fleets.

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