With its project to digitize the railway infrastructure, Munich-based KONUX GmbH is one of the ten winners of the German Mobility Prize, which was launched this year.
As part of the competition, the initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas" and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure are awarding prizes for pioneering best-practice projects on the key topic of participation in the 2016 competition year. With its project on predictive maintenance in the railway industry, KONUXTo make mobility more intelligent. The project focuses on monitoring railway infrastructure using smart sensors and AI-based data analysis.
While the inspection of critical parts of the switch was previously only possible manually, railway companies will soon be able to continuously monitor the condition of their infrastructure from any location. A combination of track-based sensors and algorithms based on artificial intelligence helps identify maintenance needs in a timely manner and respond promptly to critical events. The KONUX solution is already being used by Deutsche Bahn for real-time switch monitoring.
"With our help, Deutsche Bahn can not only reduce maintenance costs. Delays and switch failures can also be drastically reduced through predictive maintenance – and that ultimately benefits all rail passengers,"
so CEO Andreas Kunze.
Around 350 startups, companies, associations, and research institutions across Germany submitted their projects on the topic of intelligent mobility. A 16-member expert jury chaired by Parliamentary State Secretary Dorothee Bär selected the ten award-winning projects. Together with Ute Weiland, Managing Director of the "Germany – Land of Ideas" initiative, she honored the project managers of the ten award-winning projects yesterday evening at the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin.
Alexander Dobrindt, Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, said on the occasion of the winners announcement:
“The winners of the German Mobility Award show: Germany can do Mobility 4.0!“
"They demonstrate how digital innovations for mobility create social added value for all", says Ulrich Grillo, President of the Federation of German Industries and President of Germany – Land of Ideas
