# Focus

Line-scanning data captured by the AIVR Focus system provides an **incredibly comprehensive capture of the track** using underbody cameras, enhancing **early detection of railway track anomalies** and facilitating proactive maintenance to **reduce faults on the tracks** and **prevent track wear and tear.**

## A Line Scanning System

AIVR Focus, a state-of-the-art Line Scanning system deployed on in-service and measurement vehicles, **automatically captures and detects track conditions** on conductor and plain track. This enables **automated railway track inspection**, allowing remote, detailed inspection using a safe, rapid, and reliable method.

This proactive maintenance approach helps to **reduce catastrophic failure** through earlier fault detection, which is critical for **reducing operational disruptions** and **maximising performance.**

## Inspect Track Conditions on the AIVR Platform

[AIVR Platform](/content/products/aivr-platform/index.html)‘s specialist interface allows engineers to examine the areas of track they need to see.

AIVR Focus provides a **complete package for engineers** with a combination of data from Forward-Facing, Line-Scanning, Geospatial and additional Partner Location Systems, to precisely locate defects, assess track conditions and monitor change or deterioration over time.

This comprehensive approach to defect detection and localization **improves the safety and reliability of rail travel,** enabling maintenance teams to target specific areas for rapid response, thereby optimising maintenance schedules and resource allocation.

Using AIVR, maintenance teams can make **data-driven decisions** to support track access planning, with the ability to **export key data** via spreadsheets and other open formats for teams to review and share.

## Track Componentry Detection

Machine Learning developed with industry rail experts is applied to the high-definition imagery to enable the **automatic detection of key track components** such as fishplates, electrical cables, joints, welds, and other critical points of interest.

This advanced technology **assesses the conditions of these assets** and **identifies potential ‘issues’** for further investigation, playing a crucial role in **predicting railway track faults**. By assessing the conditions of these assets and identifying potential ‘issues’ for further investigation, the system contributes significantly to the **longevity of track components** and helps in avoiding costly emergency repairs.

## Low Adhesion Monitoring

An automated system on in-service vehicles that provides imagery and location information to enable digital examination of areas of railhead contamination.

## Track Geometry

The integration of laser-based [track geometry systems](/content/products/aivr-geometry/index.html) operates autonomously with AIVR. Data is made accessible via our powerful web-based frontend, alongside AIVR’s captured line-scanning imagery, optimising **railway track geometry analysis**. Geometry data is provided in Network Rail specific presentation.

## The AIVR Focus system consists of:

- **Underbody cameras**, alongside forward facing and thermal, are deployed on in-service and measurement vehicles capturing incredibly comprehensive imagery of the track condition.
- Imagery and locational data is automatically transmitted and made available on the [AIVR Platform](/content/products/aivr-platform/index.html) for engineers to review, removing the requirement for boots on ballast.
- AIVR’s Machine Learning models **automatically detect track components and defects**, enabling quicker findings and decisions to be made where infrastructure issues are identified.

A number of measurement and in-service vehicles within the UK are outfitted with AIVR Focus devices. Each system is **easily configurable to align with specific capture requirements**, ensuring versatility and precision.