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Railway Case Study RTU540 4CAE000111

This European rail company needs to double its customer capacity by 2035 while reducing costs 20% and lowering carbon emissions. It is replacing diesel trains with electric to cut emissions but must reliably control the expanded power network. Hitachi Energy's RTU540 remote terminal units are monitoring 242 locations across the network through a new SCADA system, gathering telemetry on equipment condition, power flow, and video/sensor data to enable preventative maintenance and high reliability as demand increases.

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Railway Case Study RTU540 4CAE000111

This European rail company needs to double its customer capacity by 2035 while reducing costs 20% and lowering carbon emissions. It is replacing diesel trains with electric to cut emissions but must reliably control the expanded power network. Hitachi Energy's RTU540 remote terminal units are monitoring 242 locations across the network through a new SCADA system, gathering telemetry on equipment condition, power flow, and video/sensor data to enable preventative maintenance and high reliability as demand increases.

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Control power consistently

and reliably with RTU540,


a powerful toolset in a
minimal package.

Case study

Rail company reduces carbon


emissions with RTU540
2 | R A I L C O M PA N Y T U R N S T O H I TAC H I E N E R GY F O R T H E I M P O S S I B L E D R E A M

Rail company turns to


Hitachi Energy for the impossible dream
Imagine an industry that is preparing to double its customers; now ask it to cut carbon
emissions while reducing costs by 20%, and you’d be lucky if anyone was still listening.
That’s exactly what one European rail company is trying to do, and Hitachi Energy is
helping to make it happen.

Across one European country, more than three million people This rail company is the country’s largest unregulated electricity
make a journey by train every day, and the numbers are rising. customer and has a network to match. One electric utility feeds
Ten years ago, it was half that and the network is bracing itself into that network, supplying power for trains across the capital
to carry six million daily passengers by 2035, but that’s just one and other major cities, but as the trains go electric, that network
problem facing the government body commissioned to run the needs rebuilding to carry the extra load. The network
rail infrastructure. The rail company wants to cut costs too, by communications are managed by a partner company that has
20%, and to achieve all its goals with a reduced carbon asked Hitachi Energy to provide several hundred RTU540s.
footprint. That means dumping diesel and delivering electricity
direct to trains, through a third rail or overhead cable. The remote terminal units (RTU) will gather telemetry
information and relay control messages between the central
Delivering the electricity directly reduces the carbon emissions SCADA system and the transformers, rectifiers, switchgear
by 20-35%, depending on how the power was generated, but and circuit breakers, which make up the new power-delivery
only if the power can be consistently and reliably controlled. network. The partner will also hook the RTU540s to door entry
This is where Hitachi Energy and the RTU540 come in. systems and closed-circuit cameras, providing remote
monitoring for physical as well as electrical, conditions.
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SCADA System

Video surveillance

RTU540 is ideal for the job, bringing a powerful toolset in a The project calls for 242 RTU540s connected up, reporting
minimal package. The units can be fitted into the small spaces every detail of the power flowing around the rail network,
around the network, with hard-wired inputs and future-proofing monitoring the electrical flow and feeding data back for
in the form of support for IEC 61850. Once the data has been analysis. Through the new SCADA system, the operators
collected, and with the option for local processing, a fiber optic will be able to monitor the condition of the equipment and the
connection carries it into a new SCADA (supervisory control and power running through it. They’ll also be able to tap into the
data acquisition) system at the regional control center. cameras and door sensors, to see the physical conditions
around the network.
As Hitachi Energy’s sales manager puts it, “The new SCADA
is a very prestigious project that provides the first large-scale All this information makes preventative maintenance
European deployment for our new RTU540 product line. Our possible and reduces the impact of component failure,
selection was based on the successful completion of our to keep the trains running for the maximum possible time.
partner’s stringent approval process and one of the key factors Which is important, because the company goals include
was the device’s compact design, capable of handling up to increased reliability and availability, something they’d be
5,000 data points.” hard-pressed to achieve without Hitachi Energy and the
RTU540 helping to make it possible.
Hitachi Energy
[email protected]
hitachienergy.com/rtu

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Specifications subject to change without notice. 4CAE000556

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