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WSN and Energy Harvesting for Railway Applications
 
Miss Oriane Gatin, Wireless Telecommunication Project Manager
SNCF
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This presentation was
given at Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2009 on Nov 03, 2009.
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Speaker BiographyOriane Gatin is a project manager specialising in WSN technologies and applications from the Innovation & Research Department of SNCF, the French railway company. Oriane aims to develop WSN in the railway sector, leading to intelligent transport systems, predictive maintenance and efficient ways to make measures in a harsh industrial environment. Oriane has been involved in, and has led several projects which resulted in field experiments on high speed trains, regional trains and freight trains. Energy harvesting systems represent a great opportunity for railway applications, especially those based on vibrations to power embedded sensors. Company ProfileSNCF is a French Profit Public Body and has 3 main strategic activities:
- passengers transport: urban, suburban, regional and long-distance travel. Over one billion people are carried each year, of which 572 millions in Paris area.
- freight and logistics, with Geodis, an integrated supply chain operator in 120 countries.
- Infrastructure and Engineering: traffic management, exportation and valuation of French railway expertise, maintenance and network upgrades in France and abroad: over 10 000 km of tracks are maintained in France.
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