Denver Technology has history and experience collaborating with heavy haulage rail teams at prominent companies such as BHP and Roy Hill. Although we are not rail engineers, our distinctive value stems from our profound understanding of how rail operations intersect with technology. This expertise allows us to effectively bridge the gap between rail operations and technology teams.
We play a crucial role in facilitating seamless communication and collaboration, ensuring that technological solutions are effectively integrated into rail operations. Our approach helps drive project success by aligning technical solutions with the specific needs and challenges of rail operations. Through our work, we enhance operational efficiency, improve safety, and support the long-term success of our rail industry clients.
Rail Technology Optimisation Services
Our expertise spans a variety of critical areas within rail operations, including track maintenance, reliability, signals, and communications. We have provided comprehensive advisory and design services, particularly in the following areas:
Asset Management and Maintenance Planning
Comprehensive asset management and maintenance planning services for both technology and non-production infrastructure (NPI), including power infrastructure and communications towers. Our expertise extends to systems supporting rail applications, with deep knowledge of platforms from industry leaders like Progress Rail and Wabtec.
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Specialised data protection and disaster recovery services tailored to key rail applications. Our offerings include comprehensive portfolio cataloguing, criticality and risk assessments, business impact analysis, and the development of resilient technology infrastructure to ensure robust protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
Cyber Security Uplift
Delivering cybersecurity uplift services for rail communications infrastructure, including in-depth assessments of routing, switching, and firewall systems. We catalogue and evaluate the security status of network devices and develop remediation roadmaps to meet industry best practices and stringent security standards.
Technology Support and Operations Enhancement
Tailored technology support and operations services, including Technology Support Roadmaps for Rail Protected Networks (RPN), asset cataloguing, cybersecurity assessments, and resilience planning. We also enhance Rail Network Operation Centres (NOC) by optimising monitoring and service management.
Rail Infrastructure and Facility Design
We offer high-level and low-level designs for IT and OT firewall refreshes and optimise rail application hosting platforms by enhancing network infrastructure, system management, data protection, and disaster recovery. We also lead technology refreshes for rail maintenance facilities, ensuring operability and supportability of critical assets.
Network and Communications Backbone Refresh
Comprehensive services for refreshing the communications backbone that supports rail networks including LTE, focusing on asset protection, monitoring, and voice communications. Our services ensure that rail networks are equipped with the latest technology for optimal performance and security.
Challenges in Managing Rail Technology Networks
A key challenge we observe in rail technology operations is the fragmented implementation of wayside systems such as image inspection technologies, temperature monitors (Hot Box/Cold Box detectors), DED, acoustic monitoring, and condition monitoring systems.
These systems are often deployed as separate projects, which increases the non-vital footprint on Rail Applications and Communications networks. Over time, this fragmentation leads to a support burden that surpasses team capacity. As rail networks expand, the lack of standardisation, monitoring, integration, and team knowledge, combined with poor manageability, can result in delays in critical fault resolution.
This lack of visibility over critical infrastructure leads to ad-hoc and uncoordinated support efforts, contributing to technology degradation, frequent equipment failures, and an increase in outages.
These issues not only compromise the safety of rail operations but also reduce rolling stock capability, increase maintenance costs, and exacerbate the disconnect between engineering, technology, and rail teams.
