Akiem.
The breakdown you saw coming.

How a pan-European locomotive lessor turned live fleet telemetry into anticipation — every locomotive, in real time, on the CASC platform.

Real-time
Decisions the moment events happen
Billions
Of events turned into insights
Anticipated
Failures caught before breakdown
The Challenge

One of Europe's largest fleets. Dozens of disconnected systems.

Akiem manages one of Europe's largest locomotive fleets. Coordination meant stitching together onboard telemetry from several sensor providers, the ERP for contracts and billing, fleet master data, and public geographic data — each in its own silo. Maintenance was reactive: a component degraded, someone noticed eventually, a grounding was scheduled — often too late. Unplanned groundings meant contractual penalties and cascading schedule disruptions.

Situations autonomated

What the system handles.

01

Live locomotive telemetry

Onboard sensors stream position, battery, fuel, engine hours and RPM, pantograph state and wheelset condition from every locomotive in the fleet — continuous and real-time.

02

One operating layer

Telemetry, fleet master data, contracts and the ERP converge into a single real-time view. No more reconciling siloed tools to know where a locomotive is or what it needs.

03

Anticipated maintenance

Engine-hour and battery-degradation thresholds, plus wheelset anomaly detection, surface wear before it becomes failure. Maintenance lands in planned windows — not forced by a breakdown.

04

Geofencing & cross-border compliance

Country crossings, depot and POI proximity, and pantograph compatibility per national network are detected automatically — with bilingual alerts to pan-European teams.

The architecture

How CASC is wired.

Edge telemetry, enterprise systems, and public data flow into one platform — through signals, into knowledge, back out as decisions. One operating layer, every flow traced.

SOURCES PLASMA · CASC OPERATIONS Connected locomotives battery · engine · pantograph · GPS Enterprise systems ERP · contracts · fleet data Fleet master data locomotives · contracts · POIs Geographic data geocoding · track network Signals ingestion & events Lakehouse Data → Information → Knowledge Cognition real-time intelligence Stabilization policy · full trace Anticipated maintenance engine-hours · battery · wheelset Geofencing & compliance borders · POIs · pantograph Loss-of-signal alerts stale telemetry, flagged fast Fleet dashboards status · KPIs · bilingual alerts
Outcomes

What it changes.

See
Every locomotive in real time — position, battery, fuel, engine hours, pantograph. The whole fleet in one live view.
Anticipate
Wear surfaced early from engine-hour, battery and wheelset signals. Maintenance scheduled on your terms, not the breakdown's.
Never lose track
Loss-of-signal flagged across the fleet; border crossings and pantograph compatibility tracked automatically.
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