Altametris helps railway infrastructure managers, railway operators, engineering companies, and maintenance teams transform infrastructure data into actionable insights. As a subsidiary of SNCF Réseau, Altametris specializes in the creation, management, and exploitation of railway digital twins, enabling organizations to improve asset performance, optimize maintenance operations, and support data-driven decision-making across their networks. Through a combination of advanced data acquisition technologies, automated analytics, and powerful software solutions, Altametris enables rail stakeholders to gain a comprehensive understanding of their infrastructure while reducing costs, improving safety, and increasing operational efficiency.
Altametris develops and deploys railway digital twin solutions that create accurate virtual representations of rail infrastructure. These digital twins provide infrastructure managers with a centralized and continuously updated view of their assets, including tracks, ballast, signalling environments, structures, and surrounding rail corridors. By combining data from multiple sources, Altametris helps organizations improve planning, maintenance prioritization, and long-term asset management strategies. The company’s SaaS-based Altametris Suite allows teams to visualize, share, and analyze infrastructure data through a simple web interface.
One of Altametris’ core areas of expertise is the acquisition and processing of large-scale railway data through LiDAR and other advanced surveying technologies. Data can be collected using measurement trains, drones, helicopters, and connected sensors without disrupting railway operations. These technologies generate high-precision 3D models of rail infrastructure, enabling detailed mapping, asset inventory management, clearance analysis, and network condition assessments. The resulting datasets provide railway organizations with reliable and objective information to support engineering and maintenance activities.
Altametris supports railway maintenance teams through automated inspection and defect detection solutions. By processing large volumes of infrastructure data, the company helps identify, classify, and prioritize infrastructure defects more efficiently than traditional inspection methods. This approach reduces manual field inspections, improves the quality of infrastructure assessments, and enables maintenance teams to focus their expertise on critical interventions. The use of digital inspection workflows enhances visibility across the network and contributes to safer and more reliable railway operations.
Altametris has developed specialized solutions for railway ballast monitoring and management. Using LiDAR-derived data and advanced analytics, maintenance teams can accurately identify areas with insufficient or excessive ballast and optimize renewal or redistribution activities. This data-driven approach reduces material consumption, lowers maintenance costs, and supports more sustainable infrastructure management. Combined with digital twin technologies, these capabilities contribute to predictive maintenance programs that help railway networks reduce unplanned interventions and improve asset lifecycle performance.
A notable example of Altametris’ expertise is its contribution to ballast management on the French railway network. By integrating LiDAR data collected from measurement trains and inspection platforms into advanced analytical tools, Altametris enables SNCF Réseau to precisely locate sections of track where ballast levels require attention. This allows maintenance teams to make informed decisions regarding ballast redistribution and renewal requirements while reducing unnecessary interventions. The solution has the potential to save tens of thousands of tonnes of ballast annually, generating both economic and environmental benefits.
Through its combination of railway digital twins, infrastructure monitoring, data analytics, and asset management software, Altametris supports railway organizations in their digital transformation journey. The company’s solutions help rail infrastructure managers improve network performance, increase maintenance efficiency, enhance safety, and build a more sustainable railway system for the future.
Key Altametris Products
Altametris Suite
Altametris Suite is a powerful SaaS platform dedicated to railway infrastructure digital twins and asset management. Designed for infrastructure managers, maintenance teams and engineering departments, it centralizes large volumes of geospatial, LiDAR and inspection data into a single, intuitive environment. The platform enables users to visualize railway assets in 2D and 3D, monitor infrastructure conditions, detect defects, share information across teams and make data-driven maintenance decisions.
By transforming complex infrastructure data into actionable insights, Altametris Suite helps railway organizations improve network performance, optimize maintenance planning, reduce operational costs and extend asset lifecycles. Accessible through a standard web browser, the platform provides a scalable solution for digital railway asset management and predictive maintenance.
Altametris Solutions
Altametris Solutions delivers high-precision railway surveying and digital data acquisition services to support the design, inspection and maintenance of rail infrastructure. Through the use of advanced technologies including LiDAR scanning, drones, measurement trains, helicopters and connected sensors, Altametris captures accurate and comprehensive data across railway corridors without disrupting operations.
The collected data is processed and transformed into reliable digital assets, including 3D models, detailed infrastructure inventories, topographic surveys and engineering datasets. These solutions enable railway operators and infrastructure managers to improve asset knowledge, accelerate project delivery, enhance maintenance efficiency and support the creation of accurate railway digital twins.
From network-wide mapping projects to targeted engineering surveys, Altametris Solutions provides the high-quality spatial data required to support safer, more efficient and more sustainable railway infrastructure management.
