A high percentage of railroad fatalities and injuries occur at grade-level railroad crossings, and Onyx Rail Safety Solutions developed a railroad crossing monitoring and reporting system complete with situational corrective action notifications. Transportation-specific engineers on its team spent years developing that system, which the company introduced as XING for highway-rail grade crossing and critical location safety monitoring.
Until now, reporting hazardous rail crossing conditions depended on passersby to alert the authorities. XING instead uses artificial intelligence analytics integrated with a configurable reporting system to detect and report trains occupying crossings, stranded vehicles, loitering pedestrians, trespassers, spills, sparks, grade crossing malfunctions, and other hazards and conditions. Onyx Rail Safety Solutions is a system integrator and manufacturer whose work is directed at the rail industry.