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Customer Success Story - Kazan Metro

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Transportation
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Public Transportation Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The new Kazan Metro required a unified control and visualization system for its operation. The objectives for this solution were the management and security of integrated systems including Train Dispatch and Control, Antiterrorist Protection, Power Systems/Uninterrupted Power Supplies, Fire Safety, Groundwater Pumping and Tunnel Monitoring. Challenges facing Kazan Metro developers included cost-control, adaptability/expandability, and communications/data management reliability. Read More
About Customer	Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, a republic in the Russian Federation, located 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of Moscow, with a population of nearly 1.5 million residents. Planners of the Kazan Metro (or “Underground”) intended to have the system operational for Kazan’s Millennium Celebration in 2005 and completed Phase One of their plan by completing five stations with 9 km (over 5.5 miles) of underground and 4 km (nearly 2.5 miles) of above ground rail by that deadline. The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Tatarstan were honored guests and the Kazan Metro’s first passengers during its grand opening. Read More
Solution	The Kazan Metro selected ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA suite for its control and visualization system, as well as the DataWorX™32 component for OPC data aggregation, bridging, redundancy and tunneling. ICONICS’ GENESIS32 and DataWorX32 solutions proved to meet the Kazan Metro developers’ requirements. Costs were controlled due to ICONICS’ PC and Microsoft operating system-based systems. Adaptability and expandability were ensured via ICONICS’ commercial, off-the-shelf HMI/SCADA software and open database technology (most important to the Kazan Metro was integration with Microsoft SQL Server). Reliable communications/data management is achieved through ICONICS software’s hardware agnostic approach – ensuring integration with multiple communication APIs and utilizing OPC technology. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Public Transportation Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The new Kazan Metro required a unified control and visualization system for its operation. The objectives for this solution were the management and security of integrated systems including Train Dispatch and Control, Antiterrorist Protection, Power Systems/Uninterrupted Power Supplies, Fire Safety, Groundwater Pumping and Tunnel Monitoring. Challenges facing Kazan Metro developers included cost-control, adaptability/expandability, and communications/data management reliability.

About Customer

Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, a republic in the Russian Federation, located 800 kilometers (497 miles) east of Moscow, with a population of nearly 1.5 million residents. Planners of the Kazan Metro (or “Underground”) intended to have the system operational for Kazan’s Millennium Celebration in 2005 and completed Phase One of their plan by completing five stations with 9 km (over 5.5 miles) of underground and 4 km (nearly 2.5 miles) of above ground rail by that deadline. The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Tatarstan were honored guests and the Kazan Metro’s first passengers during its grand opening.

Solution

The Kazan Metro selected ICONICS’ GENESIS32™ Web-enabled, OPC-based HMI/SCADA suite for its control and visualization system, as well as the DataWorX™32 component for OPC data aggregation, bridging, redundancy and tunneling. ICONICS’ GENESIS32 and DataWorX32 solutions proved to meet the Kazan Metro developers’ requirements. Costs were controlled due to ICONICS’ PC and Microsoft operating system-based systems. Adaptability and expandability were ensured via ICONICS’ commercial, off-the-shelf HMI/SCADA software and open database technology (most important to the Kazan Metro was integration with Microsoft SQL Server). Reliable communications/data management is achieved through ICONICS software’s hardware agnostic approach – ensuring integration with multiple communication APIs and utilizing OPC technology.

Impact #1	The Kazan Metro’s new unified control/visualization system now helps to facilitate the complex management of train traffic, integrated with Advantech IPCs/Windows XP and Fastwell integrated IPCs/Windows 2000.
Impact #2	The Dispatching Desk can visualize information related to train movement, station equipment conditions, railway track conditions, duplicated optical channels and reservation data.
Impact #3	Role-based information is available to dispatchers, engineers and the chief dispatcher at individual workstations.

Impact #1

The Kazan Metro’s new unified control/visualization system now helps to facilitate the complex management of train traffic, integrated with Advantech IPCs/Windows XP and Fastwell integrated IPCs/Windows 2000.

Impact #2

The Dispatching Desk can visualize information related to train movement, station equipment conditions, railway track conditions, duplicated optical channels and reservation data.

Impact #3

Role-based information is available to dispatchers, engineers and the chief dispatcher at individual workstations.

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Customer Success Story - Kazan Metro

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