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Control System provides Safeness in the Gotthard Base Tunnel

All the data points of the control system were tested prior to commission, first in the factory (100 percent), later again a certain percentage on site as a check | Quelle/credit: Siemens AG
All the data points of the control system were tested prior to commission, first in the factory (100 percent), later again a certain percentage on site as a check |
Quelle/credit: Siemens AG
Every 300 meters a cross duct connects the two tunnel tubes. A solid fire protection door protects the cross passages. In case of fire trains passengers can escape through the cross passages into the other tube. The control system activates the escape signals and uses the doors to expel smoke | Quelle/credit: Siemens AG
Every 300 meters a cross duct connects the two tunnel tubes. A solid fire protection door protects the cross passages. In case of fire trains passengers can escape through the cross passages into the other tube. The control system activates the escape signals and uses the doors to expel smoke |
Quelle/credit: Siemens AG
Redundant, fault-tolerant Simatic S7-400H control the combined hydraulic and electrical drives of the track change doors. All the components are completely networked via Ethernet | Quelle/credit: Siemens AG
Redundant, fault-tolerant Simatic S7-400H control the combined hydraulic and electrical drives of the track change doors. All the components are completely networked via Ethernet |
Quelle/credit: Siemens AG

The Gotthard Base Tunnel opens on June 1, 2016. Generally nobody is allowed to stay in the tunnel anymore. In order to prevent accidents when necessary maintenance work is performed and sections are blocked for the trains, the doors in the cross passages are monitored by the control system. If a door opens, train operation is stopped immediately. Each subsection from the sliding doors in the cross passages, to the emergency stops  and the 50 Hz power supply is controlled by an independent control system. So-called head computers read the data from the local programmable logic controllers (PLC)...

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