REAL-TIME REMOTE SIGNAL MONITORING SYSTEM

摘要

In a multi-car train having a train-wide communications network for communication between a master vehicle processing system on a master car and slave vehicle processing systems on slave cars in the train, each car having a vehicle communications network connected to subsystems of the car, an arrangement for collecting real-time data pertaining to operation of the subsystems. The master vehicle processing system of the master car forms and transmits a subsystem variable request message to slave vehicle processing systems in one or more slave cars in the train over the trainwide communications network requesting data on the operation of at least one subsystem. The slave vehicle processing systems of the one or more slave cars in the train respond to the subsystem variable request message by forming and transmitting a subsystem variable response message containing the requested data on the operation of the at least one subsystem. A display device is operatively connected to the master vehicle processing system of the master car for displaying the requested subsystem operating variable status data.