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AUTOMATIC AXLE BOX TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS

Automatic Axle Box Temperature System is an automated wayside detection system
for detecting hot axle boxes & locked wheels by monitoring temperature of the bearings,
wheel rim/disks, etc.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION OF THE SYSTEMS:

1. This system is compatible with various types of bearings and wheel u send on the
rolling stock being used on IR.
2. This systems has the following modules
a. IFD (Intelligent Field Terminal Unit) module.
b. Sensor Unit
c. Communication Unit.

Let us see about these units in detail:

1) Intelligent Field Unit (IFD):

Technical Specifications:

 ARM® Cortex®-M3 revision 2.0 running at up to 64 MHz

 Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

 DSP Instructions, Thumb®-2 instruction set

 256 Kbytes Single Plane embedded Flash, 128-bit wide access, memory accelerator
 48 Kbytes embedded SRAM.
 16 Kbytes ROM with embedded boot loader routines (UART, USB) and IAP routines
 8-bit Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, PSRAM, NOR and NAND Flash support
 External Bus Interface - 8-bit data, 4 chip selects, 24-bit address..
 256 Kbytes Single Plane embedded Flash, 128-bit wide access, memory accelerator
 48 Kbytes embedded SRAM
 16 Kbytes ROM with embedded bootloader routines (UART, USB) and IAP routines
 8-bit Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, PSRAM, NOR and NAND Flash support
 External Bus Interface - 8-bit data, 4 chip selects, 24-bit address.
 Embedded voltage regulator for single-supply operation
 Power-on-Reset (POR), Brown-out Detector (BOD) and Watchdog for safe operation
 Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators: 0.6 to 30MHz main power with Failure
Detection and low power 32.768 kHz for RTC or device clock
 High precision 8/12 MHz factory trimmed internal RC oscillator with 4 MHz default
frequency for device start-up. In-application trimming access for frequency
adjustment
 Slow clock internal RC oscillator as permanent low-power mode device clock
 Two PLLs up to 130 MHz for device clock and for USB

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1 Floor, 37, Lake View Road, Adambakkam, Chennai – 600 088. Ph : 91-44-2260 1647, 09445021500
Telefax : 044-2260 0772, Email : [email protected].
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 Temperature Sensor
 Up to 22 peripheral DMA (PDC) channels

Low Power Modes

 Sleep and Backup modes, down to < 2 μA in Backup mode

 Ultra low power RTC

Package

 100-lead LQFP, 14 x 14 mm, pitch 0.5 mm

 100-ball TFBGA, 9 x 9 mm, pitch 0.8 mm

Temperature operating range

 Industrial (-40° C to +85° C)

Peripheral Features

 USB 2.0 Device and Embedded Host: 12 Mbps, up to 8 bidirectional Endpoints and
Multi-packet Ping-Pong Mode. On-Chip Transceiver
 USB 2.0 Device: 12 Mbps, 2668 byte FIFO, up to 8 bidirectional Endpoints. On-Chip
Transceiver
 2 USARTs with ISO7816, IrDA®, RS-485, SPI, Manchester and Modem Mode
 Two 2-wire UARTs
 2 Two Wire Interface (I2C compatible), 1 SPI, 1 Serial Synchronous Controller (I2S),
1 High Speed Multimedia Card Interface (SDIO/SD Card/MMC)
 Two 3-channel 16-bit Timer Counters with capture, waveform, compare and PWM
mode. Quadrature Decoder Logic and 2-bit Gray Up/Down Counter for Stepper
Motor
 4-channel 16-bit PWM with Complementary Output, Fault Input, 12-bit Dead Time
Generator Counter for Motor Control
 32-bit Real-time Timer and RTC with calendar and alarm features
 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check Calculation Unit (CRCCU)
 79 I/O lines with external interrupt capability (edge or level sensitivity),
debouncing, glitch filtering and on-die Series Resistor Termination
 Three 32-bit Parallel Input/output Controllers, Peripheral DMA assisted Parallel
Capture Mode

Analog Features

 16-channel, 1Msps ADC with differential input mode and programmable gain stage
 2-channel 12-bit 1Msps DAC
 One Analog Comparator with flexible input selection, Selectable input hysteresis

ST
1 Floor, 37, Lake View Road, Adambakkam, Chennai – 600 088. Ph : 91-44-2260 1647, 09445021500
Telefax : 044-2260 0772, Email : [email protected].
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Debugger Development Support

 Serial Wire/JTAG Debug Port(SWJ-DP)

 Debug access to all memories and registers in the system, including Cortex-M4
register bank when the core is running, halted, or held in reset.
 Serial Wire Debug Port (SW-DP) and Serial Wire JTAG Debug Port (SWJ-DP) debug
access.
 Flash Patch and Breakpoint (FPB) unit for implementing breakpoints and code
patches.
 Data Watch point and Trace (DWT) unit for implementing watch points, data
tracing, and system profiling.
 Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) for support of printf style debugging.

2) Sensor Unit.

a) Non-Contact IR based pyrometer:

The sensors are noncontact infrared temperature sensors. These sensors calculate
the surface temperature based on the emitted infrared energy of objects. The sensor housing
of the CT head is made of stainless steel (IP65/ NEMA-4 rating) – the sensor electronics is
placed in a separate box. The CT sensing head is a sensitive optical system.

Technical Details of the sensor:

Spectral response of the sensor : 8-14 µm.

Measurement range : -50 to 975 °C
Power Supply : 8–36 VDC
Current draw max. 100 mA
Outputs 0/ 4–20 mA, 0–5/ 10 V, thermocouple (J or
K) or alarm output

b) Inductive proximity sensor:

Inductive proximity sensors are used for non-contact detection of metallic objects.
It detects the passing flanges of rail wheels with great precision. The detailed specification of
the sensor is given below:

Technical Details of the sensor:

Sensor type Inductive

Size Rectangular
Sensing range 50 mm;
Mounting Flush

ST
1 Floor, 37, Lake View Road, Adambakkam, Chennai – 600 088. Ph : 91-44-2260 1647, 09445021500
Telefax : 044-2260 0772, Email : [email protected].
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Electrical design DC PNP
Operating Voltage [v] 10...36 DC
Current Consumption <20mA in [24V]
Protection class II
Reverse polarity protection Yes
Ambient temperature [°C] -25...70

3) Communication Unit:
The system communicates with the cloud server using the 3G / 4G mobile technology. It
sends the corresponding live data from the system to the cloud server.

ST
1 Floor, 37, Lake View Road, Adambakkam, Chennai – 600 088. Ph : 91-44-2260 1647, 09445021500
Telefax : 044-2260 0772, Email : [email protected].