ARSCIS (ARSIS)

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ARSCIS (ARSIS) - a family of solutions for identification and control of railway transport

2020: Plans for integration with PASS24.online

The developer of access control solutions ONVI Service (part of the LANIT group) and the developer of video analytics and industrial control systems Mullen Systems have entered into an expanded cooperation agreement. This was announced on May 18, 2020 by LANIT.

In 2020, companies are planning a number of projects, during which the PASS24.online service is integrated with Mullen Systems products - the ARSIS video monitoring and accounting system for railway transport and the Avtomarshal.Vesovaya car weighing automation system. Read more here.

2012

Composition and functions of ARSCIS wagon number recognition system

ARSCIS wagon number recognition system and automated rail freight management systems.

As of October 2012, the ARSCIS hardware and software complex provides control of railway cargo transportation on a given section of the railway. Identification of objects of control (cars, tanks, platforms, etc.) is carried out by optical recognition of their registration numbers printed on the sides and beam of the chassis of the cars.

Control is carried out for the purpose of logistic accounting and ensuring economic security. The system performs the following tasks:

• Reliable meter count of each train car passing through the control area. Prompt identification of inconsistencies between the existing a priori list of numbers of expected cars (for example, coming from the NPP ETRAN of JSCo Russian Railways) and actually followed cars. Control of car downtime based on the information received.
• Full commercial accounting of transported products: linking the weight of the car measured by car scales to its registration number. Integration with METTLER TOLEDO car scales - the world's largest manufacturer of weighing equipment.
• Detailed recovery of events for claim work (shipment, downtime of cars, return of empty cars) with freight forwarders in the field of railway transportation, contractors and investigation of product theft using railway transport. Quick search for previously followed wagons and trains in the archive of stop frames by numbers and other parameters.
• Transmission of the received information to the upper level ACS (integrated security system, enterprise transport logistics ACS).

As a result of system implementation:

• manual labor of the operator is reduced by more than 90% (due to the lack of need to check numbers confidently recognized by the system);
• control becomes continuous - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
• minimizes the influence of the human factor (control is automated, operator actions are recorded).

Composition:

The ARSCIS complex is made on the basis of optoelectronic and electronic computing tools. Its functioning is based on artificial intelligence methods, algorithms and software tools for image analysis and pattern recognition. The number of television cameras used in the complex may vary from 1 to 4, depending on the requirements for the reliability level of the output information, as well as the presence or absence of prior information about the objects of control. For example, a priori information can be a complete list of numbers or types of cars that can potentially proceed through the control zone.

The main functions are:

• generating and entering into the computer a video sequence of images of the work stage (railway track section);
• diagnosis of the appearance of the train in the control area;
• localization, maintenance and counting of rolling stock facilities;
• identification and recognition of railcar numbers;
• creating a natural list or transfer sheet of the passing train (an ordered list of subsequent cars);
• recording of information (including video images of individual cars) about the passing composition;
• providing additional functions for working with generated data: archiving, viewing, printing;
• interaction with other modules and programs used within the framework of the automated cargo transportation management system of the upper level (ACS station technologies, accounting, metrological and engineering services of the industrial enterprise, METTLER TOLEDO scales, etc.).

Automated railway freight management systems created for industrial enterprises based on ARSCIS agro-industrial complex

APK "ARSCIS" is effectively used in the creation of automated cargo management systems: for example, in the tasks of organizing control over the movement of cars and tanks across the territory of large industrial enterprises, increasing the efficiency and safety of unloading and loading processes. A significant interest for a number of enterprises (oil, gas processing, chemical, metallurgical, etc.) is the automation of the process of accounting for wagons and tanks when weighing them. Maintaining such accounting is greatly simplified when using the ARSCIS agro-industrial complex in conjunction with the Mettler Toledo Vostok car weighing system.

In 2007, on the basis of the ARSCIS agro-industrial complex, an automated system ARSCIS.OilAccount was created by order of the subsidiaries of the Lukoil concern, designed to account for oil products shipped by rail. Currently, the ARSCIS.OilAccount system has been implemented and is effectively used at the enterprises of OOO Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka and OAO Lukoil-Ukhtaneftepererabotka in order to manage freight transportation of petroleum products carried out by rail.

The information shell of the ARSCIS.OilAccount system can be quickly transformed and improved in order to create a railway freight accounting system for an enterprise of any industry.

Purpose and composition of the automated petroleum product metering system ARSCIS.OilAccount

The ARSCIS.OilAccount system provides identification of railway tanks passing through the refinery weighing control point and integration of the identification results with the data of the Mettler Toledo East wagon weighing system (in the figure below "IOMR") in order to automatically record the results of weighing and record the products shipped/received. Identification and weighing results are processed by the program, presented to the operator and placed in the database for further storage and formation of reporting documentation based on weighing results.

The technical support of the system includes 4 TV b/w cameras in industrial design, providing observation of the sides and beams of the car chassis on both sides. The software of the ARSCIS.OilAccount system is deployed on 4 PCs combined into a local network. Two computers (Computers) perform identification and recognition of carriage numbers via four independent television channels. Data from the Computers is transmitted to the System Server. The Server integrates the recognition results for each of the television channels in order to make a final decision on the identification of the observed cars. A list of the cars of the following train is created, which is compared with the weighing results received from the railway scales. The total data from the System Server is sent to the database under the control of MS SQL Server DBMS, which is accessed from the operator's workstation.

Main functions of ARSCIS.OilAccount system

• Generation and input into the computer of video sequence of images of the control area (section of the railway track at the weighing oil refinery).
• Diagnostics of the composition appearance in the control area (diagnostics are carried out according to the data of axis counting sensors used in the scales).
• Identification and recognition of registration numbers of railway rolling stock objects transport (mainly tanks) passing through the control zone (weighing plant) at a speed of at least 3 km/h and not more than 40 km/h.
• Formation of a list of tanks of the following composition.
• Integration of car recognition data with the results of their weighing.
• Generation of an alarm signal (in the form of a cell illumination on the AWS form) in case of insufficient level of assessment of the reliability of tank number recognition and provision of images with unrecognized or missing numbers to the operator for making a decision.
• Providing viewing of images of cars during their weighing.
• Support for manual comparison of the results of recognition of registration numbers of followed tanks with images of these numbers and correction by the operator (if necessary) of the recognition results.
• Recording and long-term storage in the computer of data on past compositions with information on the direction, time and date of passage of compositions, results of identification and weighing, marks on performed corrections of data by the operator, etc.
• Automatic generation, saving to a file and printing on the command of the operator of reports of the established sample, both on the trains that followed during the specified time period, and on individual cars.
• Storage of images of all cars of past trains, with the possibility of subsequent viewing during the established period (the maximum volume depends on the parameters of the equipment used).
• Protection of information from unauthorized access (changing parameters and access to the system is carried out through the password system, with delimitation of access rights).
• Logging of system operation: registration of time and date of system switching on/off, change of system operator, registration of actions performed during system operation.

ARSCIS.OilAccount system operator AWS

The AWS of the ARSCIS.OilAccount system operator supports two operating modes - administration and user. The administration mode provides access to all AWS parameters, their configuration and modification, user management, modification of settings. In the user mode, the operator has access to monitoring and control functions (making decisions based on the results of operation, adjusting and confirming decisions made in the automatic mode), as well as access to information stored in the car database.