CatVue

Why risk a £1.5million delay? CatVue enables in-service catenary monitoring to immediately understand the condition of your assets, so you can identify issues before they escalate.

Product overview

CatVue represents a breakthrough in train-borne infrastructure monitoring, designed to assess, predict, and prevent catenary failures with minimal disruption. Mounted on the train, its compact camera monitors during revenue service, eliminating the need for possessions or manual inspections. This enables operators to prioritise maintenance based on actual asset condition rather than fixed schedules, improving resource allocation and operational efficiency. By continuously recording while the train is in motion, CatVue delivers actionable insights that enhance safety. Through ‘virtual track walks’, CatVue provides full visibility into pantograph and catenary interactions for smarter, data-driven decisions.

Fail to monitor, fail to move

Traditional maintenance relies on manual inspections, often done overnight, making them slow and prone to errors. These inefficiencies can lead to service disruptions, costly repairs, and increased safety risks.

CatVue transforms this process with real-time asset monitoring and intelligent alerts. It tracks key metrics against machine-learned thresholds, detecting wear, tension shifts, and electrical issues, so teams can act early, plan smarter, and prevent failures before they happen.

Key features

Prevent incidents

Prevent incidents with early detection of issues and fewer emergency repairs, mitigating associated costs.

Improve staff safety

Improve staff safety with CatVue’s ‘virtual track walk’, meaning staff never need to put boots on ballasts.

Increase visibility

Increase visibility over issues with real-time pantograph and catenary interaction monitoring, offering a holistic approach to inspections.

Protect infrastructure

Early fault detection helps prevent overhead line damage, reducing service disruptions and operational costs.

Benefits of CatVue

Safer working for maintenance staff

In-service inspection alleviates depot capacity constraints and reduces workload for maintenance teams.

Accurate, repeatable results

Fully automated inspection workflow provides consistent, highly precise and repeatable monitoring data.

Reduced risk of line teardown

Protects rail service continuity, customer revenues and potential threats to operational reputation.

Maximised availability of rolling stock

Automated, real-time inspection maximises availability of rolling stock, with no need to take trains out of service.

Why choose CatVue?

Catenary systems are exposed to various environmental and operational stresses that make them prone to risks. Discover how our CatVue solution helps to prevent failures.