Viper Innovations
Viper Innovations
World Class Technology and Service: Digital Transformation of Lineside Assets
- This article first appeared in the Railway-News magazine Issue 3 2022.
Do you want to transform your signalling power supplies system’s safety, performance and efficiency or differentiate your bids from the competition? Then the Viper Innovations CableGuardian system is here for you and delivering right now.
Viper is setting the pace in technology, service and delivery for the UK railway and has really shown the way to reduce project costs and provide a real alternative to achieving the performance, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety targets without the eye-watering project costs that usually come with it. In the operational arena, we’ve already made critical lineside safety improvements, saved tens of thousands of delay minutes and hundreds of thousands of pounds in direct benefits from the primary deployments of the system. We’re spreading rapidly across the UK network and now it’s time to spread the word.
Viper is a digital technology company specialising in the monitoring and improvement of electrical assets by developing innovative systems that turn data into information and insight, driving safety, performance and efficiency in your operational assets. We have diversified from oil and gas to rail after developing a very successful worldwide asset base in specialist systems for subsea cables and have worked in a dynamic partnership with our clients in UK rail over a number of years to develop, mould and deploy our ground-breaking technology to monitor the widest range of parameters available on lineside signalling power assets. This is giving users unparalleled insights across the lifecycle of a system – covering transformers, switchgear and cables in all their shapes and sizes, thereby allowing existing failure modes to be identified far earlier in the lifecycle and new failure modes to be recognised well before becoming a problem for the operational railway. In addition, we are driving the modernisation of working practices in partnership with those delivering the work to create even more business benefits from the technology by building the system into UK railway standards, removing the need to go trackside for a number of power system maintenance activities.
