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R3M remote condition monitoring

Receive real-time, fleet-wide diagnostic information directly into your control room and engineering depots. Rail safety certified hardware and software provide a full view of fleet status, location and condition.

Why R3M?

Real-time intelligent decision making

Utilize rules-based data interrogation to detect anomalies in component health and operational errors, and understand the potential impact on individual assets or the entire fleet. Generate actionable events to alert engineers, maintenance planners and operations teams so they can react quickly, efficiently and effectively.

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Modules

R3M provides real-time visualisation of information on every core screen. The screens reflect the per-second data captured and streamed from your assets.

Fleet summary

A visual summary of the status and health of your fleet(s). With multiple filtering options, this is the home page for Operations teams and Fleet Managers.

Map view

Show the location and status of your trains, whether single or coupled assets, using accurate GPS.

Event analytics

Analyse events from multiple charts or table data to understand fault trends and take immediate to long term action.

Channel analytics

Visualise your asset data in real-time in single or multiple graphs.

Event rules manager

At the very core of R3M, the rules manager is used to create real-time events that alert your teams about issues that are important to you.
Testimonials

What our users think

The biggest benefit is that trains can be taken to the workshop before a breakdown, engineers know exactly what must be done. As a consequence, trains can be put back into service quicker.

Falco MoorenProject Manager for Real Time Monitoring, NS
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Our customers

The company we keep

Trimble’s on-board condition monitoring solutions are used by some of the biggest and most innovative passenger and freight rail operators in the world.

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Aurizon company logo featuring a yellow, orange, and red geometric arrow icon next to brown text.
Eurostar company logo featuring a circular star emblem beside cream italicized text on a blue background.
Blue double-arrow logo of Dutch Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) centered on a solid yellow square background.
Transitio corporate logo with white modern typography and a green dot on a blue gradient background.
Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail logo with a green, gray, and orange geometric icon beside black and green text.
BMA BHP Mitsubishi Alliance company logo with blue lettering and a three-colored directional arrow.
Norske tog company logo featuring a black abstract geometric 'N' icon beside sans-serif text.
Chennai Metro Rail logo featuring concentric blue circular curves surrounding a stylized M symbol.
Black logo for SJ Swedish Railways featuring the letters "SJ" above a stylized winged wheel symbol.
French national railway SNCF logo featuring white stylized lettering on a red and purple gradient background.

Business impact

See how others have transformed their business with Trimble R3M.

Efficiency

50%
Reduced service affecting failures

Availability

60%
Reduced catastrophic engine failures

Savings

€185K
Failure intervention and material waste mitigation
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Train Gateway - Edge computing device

Accelerate and simplify R3M onboarding with the Train Gateway, rail-certified edge computing device. This configurable system collects and transmits sensor data.

Advanced security – Strong encryption & authentication
Seamless data collection – TCMS, Event Recorders & more
Multi-protocol support – MVB, CAN, FIP, Ethernet
Rail-ready design – Built for harsh environments
EN 50155:2017 Class S2 rail-certified
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Comprehensive view of fleet status

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The R3M remote rail monitoring system has no theoretical maximum number of assets that can be supported. We have a customer with a requirement to support 6000 assets.

There is no theoretical maximum number of data points (channels) the system can capture. We have customers with 8000+ channels per asset in R3M.

Yes, R3M does support multiple fleets - either within the same operator (access to all fleets) or where the operator has their own customers (customer has access to their fleets only).

Yes, R3M remote rail monitoring system uses on-board hardware and software that is rail safety ISO, CE and EN50155 compliant. All main data connectivity is strictly read-only and galvanically isolated.

Yes, R3M has a built-in rules engine. This allows you to create your own simple or complex criteria to test the channel data for problems or issues. The details of the issue are captured and a notification is displayed within R3M and by email.

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