Russian Railways employees are transferred to Russian smartphones. Import substitution is estimated at 640 million rubles

2024: Russian Railways employees are transferred to Russian smartphones. Import substitution is estimated at 640 million rubles

In May 2024, the details of the project to transfer employees RUSSIAN RAILWAY to mobile devices under the control of the Russian "" became known operating system. Aurora Purchases will take place in two stages.

According to Vedomosti, the first batch of 7 thousand devices on the Aurora OS (most of them were produced by the Fplus holding) was acquired by Russian Railways at the end of 2023, and by the end of 2024 it is planned to supply another 9 thousand devices.

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By June 2023, 28 thousand conductors worked in the Federal Passenger Company (FPC, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, which provides services for the transportation of passengers and freight handling by rail). However, as explained to the publication in the FPC, the devices are not tied to specific people and are needed only by those conductors who are directly involved in checking tickets, passenger documents, registering them when boarding a train or tracking information about orders issued by passengers during the trip. Therefore, 16 thousand gadgets will be enough to completely transfer employees to domestic solutions, said a representative of the FPC.

At the same time, the company did not disclose the names of the purchased devices, nor the amount of expenses under this project. The newspaper notes that Russian Railways tenders are not published on the website of the unified public procurement portal.

According to Sheets"," Russian Railways purchased from Fplus collected Russia smartphones in R570E with the Aurora operating system. The device has increased security - it works in a wide temperature range, is waterproof, and is also equipped with a shock-proof case. In retail, the smartphone is sold at a price of 47,990 (rubles by May 2024), but as part of large batches it could cost about 40 thousand rubles, the publication says. It also claims that the transition to Russian smartphones could cost Russian Railways 640 million rubles.^[1]

2023: Russian Railways transfers all working devices to Aurora OS

Russian Railways are transferring all working devices to the Aurora operating system. The company reported this on August 11, 2023.

At the moment, Russian Railways has installed Aurora OS on several thousand devices for the tasks of the mobile application of operating personnel: a mobile workplace that monitors the maintenance and repair of telecommunication facilities... Planned work is underway to adapt software and translate users, the Russian Railways press service told RIA Novosti.

Russian Railways transfer all working devices to the Aurora operating system

The company recalled that the tablet, application and operating system "Aurora" are completely domestic developments.

The development of the Aurora project is being carried out by Open Mobile Platform LLC, which has been part of the Rostelecom group since 2018. The latter noted that the operating system creates flexible industry solutions for the requirements of a particular customer. With the help of applications, it turns a smartphone and tablet into a mobile workplace, providing reliable encrypted access to corporate emails, instant messengers and information systems. It supports work in the electronic document management system and the corporate cloud using a qualified electronic signature, Rostelecom said. Aurora provides a trusted mobile environment for corporate and government customers, providing secure access for employees and officials from anywhere with the Internet to corporate information systems, the company added.

It is noted that by August 2023, Russian Railways is implementing a digital transformation strategy involving the introduction of digital solutions based on domestic innovative developments to increase the efficiency of the company's key business processes, including in the areas of infrastructure and transportation management.^[2]

2021: Project "Mobile Workplace of Electromechanics"

Russian Railways is introducing domestic software to digitalize the company's technological processes and create mobile workplaces for specialists who ensure the operation of communication networks. This was reported to Russian Railways on March 4, 2021.

The project "Mobile Workplace Electromechanics" includes the development of a special mobile application for smartphones and tablets used by employees of repair and restoration teams of communication networks, as well as the deployment of trusted mobile infrastructure based on the Russian mobile operating system Aurora. The volume of implementation will be 3.6 thousand mobile workplaces equipped with a functional application and a domestic OS.

The mobile application for employees of repair and restoration teams, integrated with the information production system of the communications service, allows you to assign tasks for production personnel, monitor the location of specialists and the progress of planned and repair and restoration work, provide employees with technical documentation, etc.

The Russian mobile operating system Aurora has built-in mechanisms for protecting information from unauthorized access. It is intended for use in state information systems, personal data systems and automated control systems of a high degree of security.

The introduction of such digital technologies allows Russian Railways to increase the efficiency of key business processes, including in the areas of infrastructure and transportation management.

The project is being implemented at the Central Communication Station (a branch of Russian Railways that provides the company's technological and business processes with telecommunication resources and communication services) together with the developers of Transset JSC and Korus Consulting, as well as with the developer of the Aurora operating system of the Russian company Open Mobile Platform.

2020: Project Details

In June 2020, the Open Mobile Platform spoke about the implementation of the project in 2020. [1]Learn more here.

2019

Transfer of all service smartphones to the Russian OS

On December 24, 2019, it became known that Russian Railways ordered several thousand infrastructure workers smartphones MIG C55 equipped with a pre-installed Russian operating system "" for its employees. Aurora The carrier intends to transfer all service mobile devices to this platform in 2020.

MIG C55 and smartphones software developed by the company Mobile Inform Group will be used by Russian Railways to monitor the state of the path. The gadgets will be coordinated with specialized measuring complexes and transmit data over a secure channel. The phones will protect information about railway track inspections using certified cryptography. FSB

It became known that Russian Railways ordered for its employees of the infrastructure complex several thousand MIG C55 smartphones equipped with the pre-installed Russian Aurora operating system

Test tests of devices that can withstand falls, exposure to rain, snow and temperatures up to 100 degrees ended in December 2019 in Nizhny Novgorod. The cost of MIG C55 is about 68 thousand rubles, corresponding to the level of flagship devices of Apple, Samsung or Huawei.

It is assumed that employees of our company will use this device only for work. For personal purposes, they will need other gadgets, "the company's press service told Izvestia.

According to Russian Railways Director for Information Technology Yevgeny Charkin, Russian smartphones are purchased as part of a digital transformation strategy, in which import substitution is an extremely important area.

The transfer to Aurora of all specialized mobile devices used in Russian Railways is necessary not only due to the transition to digital rails, but also to ensure the security of managing critical information infrastructure facilities, as well as reducing dependence on imported technologies, the company said.^[3]

Agreement on the use of the Russian mobile operating system Aurora

On November 8, 2019, Rostelecom announced that Russian Railways Information Technology Director Evgeny Charkin, General Director of Open Mobile Platform LLC (Rostelecom subsidiary) Pavel Eiges and General Director of Industry Center for the Development and Implementation of Information Systems LLC (a subsidiary of Russian Railways in the field of digitalization) Denis Troshanov signed a trilateral agreement on cooperation in the field of information technology, including the use of the only domestic mobile operating system (MOS) Aurora.

The structure of Russian Railways has created a competence center for the development of promising solutions on the basis of the domestic protected MOS Aurora. Within the framework of the project, specialized application software will be developed that will make a device with Aurora a mobile workplace for employees of the track complex.

Russian Railways is implementing a digital transformation strategy involving the introduction of digital solutions based on domestic developments to increase the efficiency of the company's key business processes, including in the areas of infrastructure and transportation management.

Aurora provides a trusted mobile environment for corporate and government customers, providing secure access for employees and officials from anywhere on the Internet to corporate information systems. To improve the efficiency of operations, companies and departments can independently remotely control devices, including installing and updating applications, forcing a password, monitoring personnel movements, tracking photos and videos from the place of work, and so on.

The Aurora operating system allows you to create flexible industry solutions to meet the requirements of a particular customer. With the help of applications, it turns a smartphone and tablet into a mobile workplace, providing reliable encrypted access to corporate emails, instant messengers and information systems. Supports work in the electronic document management system and the corporate cloud using a qualified electronic signature.

Planning the transition to Aurora OS

September 10, 2019 it became known that the Russian Railways () RUSSIAN RAILWAY will conduct an experiment to import substitution on the gadgets of their employees. They will be transferred to devices controlled by the "Russian" "." operating system Aurora

A pilot project to transfer Russian Railways employees from iOS and Android to Aurora will be carried out by the end of 2019. The decision to conduct the experiment was dictated by the order of the Russian Government to introduce domestic OSs in Russian Railways.

The order to move to Aurora Russian Railways was given by the Deputy Prime Minister. In Russia Maxim Akimov an interview, he said that the transfer of a Russian transport company to a Russian one software is necessary to increase demand for it.

On my instructions, Russian Railways is working on the issue of using the Aurora operating system for in-house production needs - precisely in order to gain experience and develop a certain amount of subscriptions, said[4]

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