Hitachi Rail Unveils the ‘HMAX’ AI Solution, Accelerated by NVIDIA, to Optimize Trains, Signaling and Infrastructure

 

Hitachi’s digital tools already use digital sensors to remotely monitor the health of assets and improve their performance. The HMAX (Hyper Mobility Asset Expert) platform offers a leap forward as live data collection is combined with powerful AI technology to dramatically enhance the speed, ease and depth of analysis. Using the powerful insights offered by HMAX, operators can now more accurately predict, optimize and transform their services.

Hitachi Rail is leveraging NVIDIA’s industrial AI platform and software tools, and Hitachi Digital’s AI Centre of Excellence and software engineering expertise, to offer operators more advanced, innovative solutions. The HMAX digital platform’s “edge to cloud” architecture means Hitachi Rail’s customers will be able to remotely access these innovations all through a single portal, as well as at operational centers The solutions are part of Hitachi’s vision to bring the power of AI into the world of Operational Technology, equipping frontline workers, engineers and operators with the powerful benefits of AI.

The collaboration with NVIDIA incorporates the industrial-grade NVIDIA IGX platform with NVIDIA Holoscan sensor processing platform, allowing volumes of data to be processed at the ‘edge’ (on the trains or infrastructure) in real time, with only relevant information sent back to the operational control centers. This enables an unprecedented improvement in the speed that actionable insights reach transport operators, as previously it could take up to ten days for data to be processed in maintenance locations.