2009

Zircon has been awarded another new contract to develop software to enable 3rd Party CCTV Equipment Manufacturers to independently certify equipment before deployment in the field.

Zircon has undertaken the development of a MOVA (Microprocessor Optimised Vehicle Actuation) system for use in our clients Traffic Controller suite of products.

MOVA is a  self-optimising traffic control system for traffic signals which maintains the optimum green stage, cycle time  and control strategy to minimise queuing at traffic signalled junctions.  The development involves implementing and wrapping the core MOVA code on our clients new hardware platform, and integrating it with our clients other systems.

Zircon has been awarded a new contract to assist our client in the development of the Automatic Train Regulation (ATR) component of a metro control centre upgrade project. By predictive modelling of the railway, ATR attempts to identify improvements in the scheduling of the trains and then to apply these improvements to the railway.

Rail Control Centre Update

Zircon has been awarded a new contract to assist our client in the upgrade of a rail control centre. The upgrade is required due to remodelling of the current railway. The upgrade is a SIL2 development and Zircon will be carrying out data modifications, modifications to the current test tools, Verification & Validation activities and supporting the installation and commissioning of the upgrade.

Zircon has been tasked with undertaking an audit of the National Motorway Control System Technical Specifications Management Websites.  Zircon will be examining the maintainability of the sites, the disaster recovery policies and backup procedures and the content management process.

Zircon is currently developing software to log and analyse data produced by our client’s train carried signalling equipment. Data is generated by our client’s system and passed to the train carried management system, but wasn’t being logged for later analysis.

Zircon have been contracted to firstly develop a data logger and secondly to develop a generic tool to analyse these and other log files.

Zircon successfully demonstrated our software engineering capabilities for the rail industry at Railtex. Our stand featured a railway simulation platform based around a model railway. This simulates a full working railway, complete with:

• Full Interlocking;
• Trains running to a Timetable with Automatic Route Setting (ARS) operation;
• Operator Work Station;
• Train Graph Application;
• Timetable Edit Workstation;
• Condition Monitoring via Wireless Handheld Device.

The model railway mimics real life operation and is used by Zircon as a test bed to demonstrate new products and concepts to clients.