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Ottawa approves train monitoring system that could improve emergency response · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Ottawa approves train monitoring system that could improve emergency response. Written
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  by Michael Urbanek. This article is being read by an automated voice,
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  brought to you by Everlet. The city of Ottawa will soon be
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  able to track train traffic through the city in real time. The
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  Ottawa City Council approved an agreement with Iron Circuit LLC on Tuesday,
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  which allows for the purchase of railroad monitoring equipment. Fire Chief Brian
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  Bresner said, Iron Circuit will put up AI-powered cameras that monitor how
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  fast trains are coming in through Ottawa, how many cars the trains
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  are pulling, and track the scenarios that happen when trains have crossings
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  blocked. We're gonna put that into our GIS map mapping software so
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  It’ll pin a call and give us turn by turn directions, Bressner
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  said it’ll say hey, that crossing's blocked or maybe this crossing is
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  gonna open up at this time. It'll be quicker for that ambulance,
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  firetruck, or squad car to go around to a different crossing. Bressner
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  said it'll be useful for the tracks by US Silica, on Boyce
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  Memorial and on Champlain Street, where trains tend to block they crossings
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  multiple times her day. He said it won't improve things immediately though.
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  The first base is trying to get the emergency response figured out.
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  And then hopefully they can expand on that, Bresner said. Ottawa's such
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  a unique town that the can take that AI intelligence that they're
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  going to use here. Bressner said there are still going to be
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  some challenges. It'll take The monitoring system some time to sort through
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  the train traffic data, but it'll be helpful once it has the
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  data and it's up and running. This program will cost 7,000 per
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  year and has to be reauthorized by the city council each year.
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  The owner of Iron Circuit is Jason Marvel, who Bressner said used
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  to live in Ottawa.