AI-assisted railway inspection

Turn scheduled rail operations into infrastructure intelligence.

RailEyes helps railway operators capture corridor evidence from active rolling stock, anonymize sensitive imagery, detect inspection-relevant conditions, and review findings on a rail-aware map.

Infrastructure intelligence

From ordinary train movements to inspection-grade evidence.

As RailEyes data accumulates, the corridor view becomes more than video: it becomes a structured evidence layer for maintenance, vegetation, asset, and safety teams.

RailEyes infrastructure intelligence infographic showing train-based rail inspection detections and corridor callouts.

Scheduled capacity, inspection value

Turn trains that already run into a repeatable inspection network.

RailEyes helps operators use scheduled rail capacity to collect corridor evidence more often, reduce the need for separate inspection runs, prioritize maintenance with clearer context, and compound value through reusable rail-specific data.

Want to learn more?

Report-backed proof points

Field-validated railway AI, built from real operating constraints.

RailEyes was developed through the DriveTrust initiative with CP and IP, moving from concept to retrofit hardware, edge capture, anonymization, vegetation analytics, and map-based review workflows on active Portuguese rolling stock.

18 months

Pilot and monitoring period

The project expanded from an initial feasibility window into a longer validation program as railway, privacy, hardware, and data access requirements were worked through.

2 train families

Retrofit tested

RailEyes camera units were deployed on UTE 2240 and CPA 4000 series rolling stock, with hardware iterations shaped by vibration, temperature, visibility, and installation constraints.

90%+

Lower data footprint in TrackView concept

Project reporting describes replacing full-length video review with anonymized still frames every 50-100 meters for targeted corridor inspection.

Rail-specific datasets

Human-validated inspection data can improve models over time and deepen defensibility.

Privacy-first European adoption

Anonymization and selective media handling reduce friction for public infrastructure environments.

Existing rolling stock as capture network

Retrofit deployment can turn scheduled train operations into recurring inspection coverage.

Railway maintenance

Inspection evidence built around real railway operations.

RailEyes is designed for infrastructure teams that need useful data without adding a dedicated inspection vehicle for every review cycle. The platform combines retrofit capture hardware, edge-side data handling, cloud analytics, and human validation into a practical inspection workflow.

Operator value

Use routine train movement to collect visual evidence, prioritize field work, and create a clearer record of vegetation, assets, and trackside conditions.

Investor value

The RailEyes platform compounds value through rail-specific datasets, reusable mapmatching, privacy-oriented media pipelines, and modular analytics that can expand across inspection categories.

RailEyes dashboard view for railway video records, route filters, and processed corridor media.

Platform

A railway inspection stack with defensible layers.

The strongest RailEyes story is not one AI model. It is the combination of capture hardware, selective upload, anonymization, rail location intelligence, validation loops, and operator-facing review tools.

01

Capture from scheduled trains

Retrofit camera units collect visual, GPS, thumbnail, device, and motion context during normal railway operation.

02

Reduce data before it becomes expensive

Metadata and thumbnails can move first, while full media is uploaded selectively for segments of interest or deeper review.

03

Anonymize and structure evidence

Captured images and video can be anonymized, matched to rail locations, and routed into vegetation, zoning, TrackView, or asset review workflows.

04

Improve with validation

Human review of AI findings creates a feedback loop for better rail-specific models and clearer operator confidence.

Rail-trained perception

Semantic segmentation enriched with depth context and validation data from real railway corridors.

Capabilities

Products that map to concrete railway workflows.

RailEyes keeps inspection content specific: vegetation monitoring, TrackView corridor review, rail geolocation, anonymization, zoning, motion context, and aggregated infrastructure intelligence.

Hardware and Edge Intelligence

Software and Data Analytics

RailEyes TrackView

Map-based track review using anonymized still frames extracted from onboard video at distance or time intervals, so teams can inspect long corridors without moving full video around by default.

Read more

Real-Time Railway Stream

Live and near-real-time railway corridor streaming for operators who need immediate visual context from scheduled train movement, existing camera feeds, or RailEyes capture units.

Read more

RailEyes Zoning

Location-aware object and obstacle review that separates trackside observations into operational zones such as LEFT, RIGHT, and DANGER.

Read more

RailEyes Vegetation Detection

Railway vegetation intelligence using semantic segmentation for corridor growth, including high grass, low grass, tree trunks, tree tops, and miscellaneous vegetation classes.

Read more

RailEyes Map/Track/Lane Matching

Rail-specific location matching that connects GPS observations to tracks, segments, stations, and kilometer points instead of relying on road-oriented map matching.

Read more

RailEyes Anonymization

Privacy-oriented video and image anonymization for railway review workflows where pedestrians, passengers, staff, or public spaces may appear in captured data.

Read more

RailEyes Dynamics

RailEyes Dynamics blends onboard inertial signals, visual corridor proof, and rail-specific map matching so abnormal motion patterns can be reviewed at the correct track location.

Read more

RailEyes Mapmatching

Hectometer-oriented matching of railway observations using GPS, motion context, and rail network structure for more actionable inspection records.

Read more

RailEyes Heatmaps

Aggregated visual intelligence for detecting repeated vegetation, asset, obstacle, and passenger-presence patterns across corridors and stations.

Read more

How it works

From corridor capture to reviewed findings.

RailEyes helps teams understand what was captured, where it belongs on the rail network, whether sensitive imagery has been handled correctly, and what deserves maintenance attention.

Capture visual, GPS, thumbnail, and motion data from operating trains.

Upload automatically where useful and request richer media only when needed.

Run AI-assisted detection for vegetation, objects, zones, and review concepts.

Validate findings through a cloud workflow so outputs stay useful to maintenance teams.

RailEyes vegetation event review workflow showing original frame, vegetation detection, distance estimation, and event validation.

Detection examples

Visual inspection evidence for trackside review.

These examples show the kind of railway imagery and AI-assisted overlays that support operator review. Production claims should be tied to the specific corridor, pilot scope, and validation method agreed with each operator.

Rail corridor image with vegetation detection overlays.
Vegetation detection
RailEyes vegetation validation event with corridor frame, excluded zones, and detection markers.
Vegetation validation
Railway signal detected from a trackside camera view.
Signal detection
Railway sign detected in a trackside inspection image.
Railway sign review
Trackside object detection example for railway inspection.
Object review
Human presence and trackside zone detection example near station-adjacent railway infrastructure.
Human presence
Vehicle detection example near a railway corridor.
Vehicle presence