The European Train Control System (ETCS) has been specified and prepared within the last years as a new European standard solution for interoperability and cross-border operation in the European railway network. Now the first commercial application of ETCS Level 1 has been prepared and put into operation. For this project Alcatel TAS Austria has developed an intelligent and vital signal detector for a wide range of applications including ETCS cab signaling. Main figures of the new component are its adaptation to different signal types and to different signal lamp current waveforms and threshold values, no influence on the signal system by low input resistance and galvanic decoupling, active input transformers, amplifiers, integrated A/D converters, software controlled calibration and signal processing, two-channel vital computing and off-line data preparation supported by a tool for generation of configuration files and track-totrain telegram files.
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