Trackside Acoustic Detection System (TADS)
- Buyer
- CHILTERN RAIL LIMITED
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Value
- 1.2m GBP
- Published
- 2026-10-06
- Type
- UK2 Preliminary market engagement notice
- Status
- Open to bid
- Category
- CPV 63711100
Description
Chiltern Rail Limited (Chiltern) is undertaking preliminary market engagement to support the planned replacement of its existing Trackside Acoustic Detection System (TADS). TADS has been used by Chiltern since 2015 to monitor the health and condition of axle bearings and other bogie mounted rotating components. TADS is a wayside system developed by “Transportation Technology Centre Inc” (TTCI) for the purpose of detecting defective railroad bearing prior to failure. This system uses microphone-based technology to collect the acoustic signature of each bearing on a passing train. This data is processed thorough a collection of algorithms to identify defective bearings. The resulting information is used to drive critical safety, business and operational decisions. TADS is becoming unreliable and has suffered several outages more recently therefore Chiltern is seeking information from the market regarding potential solutions and delivery approaches for its replacement. The scope of…
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- CHILTERN RAIL LIMITED has 2 notices on this site, 1 of them open now, the earliest published 2026-10-06. See them all.
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