Pivot
Pivot is an advanced railcar remote monitoring solution by ZTR that provides near real-time insights on location, impact detection, door and hatch status, load monitoring, handbrake position and more. It helps rail operators and shippers optimize asset utilization, enhance operational efficiency, and improve safety. With long-lasting battery power, it requires zero maintenance and is built to withstand harsh rail environments. Pivot integrates seamlessly with business systems to deliver actionable data, improving decision-making and overall railcar performance.
Features
Location Tracking & Impact Detection
Pivot provides both GPS-based location tracking and real-time impact detection in one robust solution through its integrated gateway device.
By continuously monitoring the railcar’s position, Pivot ensures seamless visibility for route planning and asset optimization.
Simultaneously, the gateway detects significant shocks or impacts, helping you quickly assess and address potential damage.
This dual capability enables rail operators to protect valuable cargo, prevent delays, and ensure the safe and efficient operation of their railcars
Door & Hatch Monitoring
To ensure cargo security and integrity, Pivot’s door and hatch sensor detects whether railcar doors and hatches are open or closed. This capability helps prevent unauthorized access, theft, leakage, and cargo contamination. With real-time alerts, operators can take immediate action to secure railcars when anomalies are detected.
Load Status Monitoring
Pivot uses advanced load monitoring sensor, installed under the railcar's frame, to determine whether a railcar is loaded or unloaded. This real-time information is critical for optimizing railcar utilization, reducing dwell times, and improving supply chain efficiency. With instant access to load status, shippers and operators can better coordinate movements, ensuring efficient cargo handling and minimizing delays.
Handbrake Status Monitoring
Pivot provides crucial handbrake status monitoring, ensuring railcar safety by tracking whether the handbrake is engaged or disengaged. This reduces the risk of accidents, especially during loading or unloading processes, and ensures compliance with safety protocols. The handbrake status is continuously monitored through dedicated sensors and transmitted in real-time for immediate visibility. Pivot provides crucial handbrake status monitoring, ensuring railcar safety by tracking whether the handbrake is engaged or disengaged. This reduces the risk of damage to wheels, cargo, and infrastructure, and also accidents, especially during loading or unloading processes. The handbrake status is continuously monitored through dedicated handbrake sensor and transmitted in real-time for immediate visibility.
Intuitive and User Friendly Interface
Our intuitive, user-friendly platform is easy to use and lets you access and share data anywhere, anytime.
- User-Centric Design: Experience a user-friendly interface designed with simplicity in mind, allowing users of all levels to navigate and access critical information effortlessly.
- Effortless Monitoring: Seamlessly track and manage your railcars' location, status, and vital data in real-time through an intuitive interface, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency.
- Timely Alerts: Receive proactive alerts and notifications about railcar events, such as impacts, doors opening, or handbrake status changes, ensuring quick response and risk mitigation.
- Customizable Reports: Generate tailored reports and analytics to assess performance, monitor key metrics, and drive strategic decisions for your rail operations.
- Responsive Support: Access responsive customer support and assistance directly from the app, ensuring your queries are addressed promptly and effectively.
RailPulse Certification
ZTR’s Pivot is now a certified solution integrated with the RailPulse platform, and delivering essential data such as real-time location tracking, load status, handbrake position, door/hatch status, and impact detection.
As a certified vendor, ZTR joins an exclusive group recognized for meeting RailPulse’s high standards in telematics performance, data integration, and accuracy. By providing shippers and rail operators with a centralized view of these critical metrics, Pivot helps optimize asset utilization, reduce downtime, and facilitate proactive maintenance, ensuring the safe and reliable transportation of goods.
Additionally, Pivot's seamless integration with the RailPulse platform ensures that users benefit from data transparency and interoperability, contributing to smarter, data-driven decisions in their rail operations.
Pivot Brochure
Benefits
Improve Operational Efficiency & Asset Utilization
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Optimized Resource Allocation: Empower strategic decision-making by allocating resources efficiently, preventing overuse or underuse of railcars, ultimately driving cost savings.
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Minimized Downtime: Swift alerts and insights mitigate downtime caused by accidents, handbrake issues, or operational disruptions, ensuring a consistent railcar supply.
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Streamlined Processes: Elevate operational efficiency through precise optimization of dwell times, reduced waiting periods, and faster overall transit times.
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Informed Decision Making: Harness historical and real-time data for informed decision-making, enhancing cost management and refining operational strategies.
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Enhanced Supply Chain Coordination: Accurate arrival predictions bolster supply chain operations, minimizing disruptions and their associated costs.
Great Savings
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Resource Efficiency: Reduce equipment needs, cut fuel consumption, and eliminate unnecessary railcar movements through intelligent monitoring.
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Cargo Protection: Safeguard cargo against mishandling, theft, or damage via continuous monitoring, ensuring goods' secure transportation.
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Fuel and Emissions Reduction: Optimize railcar movements, minimize idle times, and lower fuel consumption and energy costs, contributing to sustainability efforts.
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Extended Asset Life: Proactive maintenance and minimized wear extend railcar lifespans, postponing costly replacements and bolstering cost-effectiveness.
Enhance Customer Satisfaction
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Real-Time Visibility: Provide customers with dynamic real-time cargo visibility, empowering them to track shipments, anticipate arrivals, and optimize their operations.
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Supply Chain Transparency: Enable clear supply chain insights, aiding customers in identifying potential delays, contingency planning, and streamlined operations.
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Cargo Security: Ensure cargo security through monitoring sensors that detect unauthorized access or tampering, guaranteeing safe transportation.
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Competitive Edge: Offer customers a distinct competitive advantage within their industries by delivering innovative, efficient, and customer-centric railcar monitoring solutions.
Install & Forget
Experience seamless installation and long-lasting reliability with our PIVOT railcar remote monitoring solution. Discover the unbeatable benefits that ensure your peace of mind throughout the railcar monitoring journey:
- Quick Installation: Get up and running in under 10 minutes with our user-friendly setup process. Say goodbye to complex installations and welcome hassle-free deployment.
- Rugged Durability: Designed to withstand the harshest rail conditions, our system is built tough to endure extreme temperatures, vibrations, and demanding rail environments.
- Maintenance-Free Assurance: Enjoy a worry-free experience with our maintenance-free solution. Once installed, our system requires no ongoing maintenance, freeing your resources for other critical tasks.
- Unmatched Hazardous Rating: Benefit from industry-leading safety standards with our hazardous-rated design, ensuring compliance and peace of mind in even the most challenging rail environments.
- Energy Independence: Experience true autonomy with our solution's self-sustaining power source. Say goodbye to relying on external factors for energy, ensuring continuous monitoring without interruptions.
- Extended Battery Life: Enjoy more than 5 years of battery life, providing reliable performance and minimizing the need for frequent replacements or interruptions.
- Consistent Performance: Our solution maintains superior performance across the entire temperature spectrum, ensuring accurate data collection and alerts in all weather conditions.
From swift installation to unmatched durability, we ensure that you can confidently focus on your rail operations, knowing that PIVOT delivers consistent, reliable, and hassle-free railcar monitoring. Experience the future of railcar management with ease and confidence.
Devices
PIVOT Gateway H2M IS
Our PIVOT Railcar Gateway leverages BlackBerry technology to deliver industry leading remote monitoring solution for all kinds of railcars.
Highlights:
- Industry leading certifications including C1 D1
- Easy installation in under 10 minutes anywhere on railcar
- Energy independent - no reliance on solar or any external source of energy
- Up to 33% smaller, 50% lighter than the competition
- Improved performance over temperature spectrum: Operates between -31°F to 158°F (-35°C to 70°C)
- Electronics operate up to +85°C (185°F)
PIVOT Railcar Sensor R2 IS
Our Railcar sensor R2 IS an intrinsically safe sensor that records and reports the loaded and empty status of the railcar. The sensor relays information to the gateway using industry leading short-range communication protocols for superior performance in difficult environments.
Highlights:
- C1D1 Certified
- Industry leading short-range communication
- Fully OTA Capable
PIVOT Railcar Sensor S2 IS
Our Railcar sensor S2 IS an intrinsically safe sensor that records and reports open/close status of door and hatch, and handbrake engaged/disengaged status. The sensor has an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetic sensors for status reporting based on position, rotation or magnetic field.
Highlights:
- C1D1 Certified
- Industry leading short-range communication
- Fully OTA Capable
Brought to you by ZTR
With over 35 years of Railway and IoT experience with industry leading 24x7 customer support, ZTR provides a railcar remote monitoring solution you can trust.
ZTR’s PIVOT seamlessly integrates with your existing business systems to improve railcar availability and reliability by providing you with near real-time location, mileage and critical operational information to help you improve improve your operational efficiency and asset utilization.
Powered by BlackBerry®
Our Gateway and Sensors are based on Blackberry Radar, the leaders in security, power management and telematics solutions. All tracking data is secured with industry leading encryption and authentication services. The gateway and sensors use BlackBerry® QNX®, the OS for embedded systems.