Network Rail & Innovate UK Railways SBRI Competition Briefing: Innovation in Automated Survey Processing for Railway Structure Gauging

SBRI Competition Briefing:
Innovation in Railway Platform End & Edge Technology
5 December 2019
London
Agenda
Facilitator: Rob Furlong, KTN
1. Background to competition Naomi Latimer, Network Rail
2. Competition Scope Kelvin Davies, Innovate UK
3. Q&A

ResearchandDevelopment
Innovationisinournature
Platform End & Edge
Our Challenge
Naomi Latimer
Senior Security Specialist, Safety Technical and
Engineering

Platform End & Edge
• Trespass (not resulting in fatality) costs Network Rail approximately £5m per
period
• Vandalism and theft cost approximately £1m per period
• The total cost of security incidents has risen from £43m per year in 2006/7 to
£130m per year in 2017/18.
• From 2017-2019, 85% of trespass incidents occurred within 250m of a train
station

Platform End & Edge

Platform End & Edge
Our aims:
• Detect trespass in known problem areas
• Improve trespass data for better understanding of the issue
• Deter trespassers
• Allow for response to trespass
• Reduce trespass related delays

SBRI: innovation in railway platform
end and edge technology

SBRI: innovation in railway
platform end and edge technology
Briefing Event
5 December 2019
Kelvin Davies / Steve Sopp
Rail / SBRI Team, Innovate UK

Aims of Today’s Briefing
 Opportunity for Network Rail to brief on the
competition objectives
Additional
 Set out the background for this competition
 Bring the scope and guidance to life
 Opportunity for you to ask questions
 Highlight the roles of the Knowledge Transfer
Network (KTN), and Catapults in making
connections that may help you.
 Provide networking opportunities

• Organisations can apply for a share of £1.08m + VAT
• The competition is eligible to:
• organisation of any size
• project work to be carried out in the UK
• organisations should be based in the UK, EU or the EEA
• 100% funding
• Total project costs between £200k and £360k + VAT
• Up to 16 month project duration (12 month trial)
• development and demonstration of a technological and/or
physical solution which will detect and deter trespass onto
the railway from platform ends and edges.
Competition Summary
SBRI: INNOVATION IN RAILWAY PLATFORM
END AND EDGE TECHNOLOGY

The competition objectives are :
 to detect and deter trespass at platform ends and edges (such as fare evasion or shortcuts)
 to detect and deter incursion over platform ends and edges to commit crime (such as cable theft
or vandalism).
 to demonstrate the capability of physical and/or technological solutions to combat these
challenges.
Objectives

Your solution must be scalable to suit different station environments, including those with:
 no station staff (referred to as basic)
 some station staff or other ability to respond (medium)
 live station response available (advanced)
When a trespass is detected, your solution must have the ability to deter physically, visually or
audibly. In addition, it must be able to send an alert to a designated person or system to enable a
response.
Objectives

Your project must trial a solution in 2 live station environments for 12 months to account for
seasonal fluctuations in trespass. Your application must describe the expected costs for:
 development
 installation at 2 stations
 monitoring over a 12-month period
 The goal is to install trespass reduction solutions that work for the end user. The objective is to
enhance safety and reduce the number of minutes of delay resulting from trespass. Network Rail
aims to create a detailed report on the projects’ findings.
Objectives

Provisional Competition Timeline1May2020
KOM
StationInstallation
August2020
3monthreview
November
20206month
review
February2021
9monthreview
August2021
15month
review
Demonstration and TriallingDevelopment
May2021
12month
review
September2021
FinalMeeting
Live Station Environment
(12 months)

Your solution must:
 demonstrate RIRL 3 at the time of application
 be able to demonstrate RIRL 4 after 3 months of R&D
 provide evidence required for trial product acceptance by Network Rail
 develop an installation scheme plan for approval by Network Rail
 demonstrate RIRL 6 and provide information for product acceptance at the end of the trial
Objectives

Your proposal must show:
 whether you have experience of implementing similar systems
 that you can develop your technology to the scope requirements
 the maturity of your technology
 how you will work with local engineering teams and Network Rail Telecom before the live trial for
safety assurance
 how you will work with station staff to develop user processes (for medium and advanced
implementations)
 that you will build in reviews during the trial to ensure quality
Objectives

In relation to scalability you must:
 create a solution that is adaptable to different station environments (such as different sized or
shaped platforms or varying light levels)
 create a solution that allows for varying levels of staff involvement
 show how scalability will affect performance
Objectives

Operational capabilities and technical requirements
Your proposal must demonstrate that your solution:
 can be installed along a platform end and/or edge (meeting applicable Network Rail standards)
to detect trespass in those areas
 does not interfere with lineside equipment
 does not interfere with passing or stopping trains (for example, all equipment must be certified
for electromagnetic compatibility where applicable)
 does not mistake trains for trespassers
 is not triggered when passengers are getting on or off a stopped train
Objectives

Operational capabilities and technical requirements
Your proposal must demonstrate that your solution (continued):
 can be programmed to limit false alarms
 can differentiate between animals and people
 can be turned off when workers are in the area
 does not interfere with medical devices, violate human rights, or discriminate against any group
of people, and is compliant with the Equality Act 2010
 resets itself when the trespass is no longer detected
 meets Network Rail specifications for use on the railway
Objectives

Your solution must:
 record the number of triggered trespass incidents
 record the time and location of trespass incidents
User requirements - Your solution must:
 be in use all day, every day
 be able to send alerts to a designated responder when a trespass is detected, either by text,
email or another agreed method
 be able to include alerts that identify the location of the trespass detected
 include the ability to easily control or turn off alerts, such as when no staff are present to respond
 record data to allow for future planning and monitoring
Objectives

Interfacing
 Your solution must comply with Network Rail security, technical and data standards.
Additional information on Network Rail standards and specifications will be available on our secure
site when you apply.
Objectives

Desirable (non-essential) capabilities (1/2)
We would prefer solutions that can:
 detect trespass off the edge of the platform
 link to existing CCTV to start recording when a trespass is detected
 combine with other technologies to lower false alarm rate
 record the specific location and time of trespass
 be battery powered, with consideration of battery life, easy maintenance and the ability to
remotely report battery status (if applicable)
 activate escalating deterrence when a trespasser continues into an unauthorised area
Objectives

Desirable (non-essential) capabilities (2/2)
 allow any pre-recorded deterrence messages to be over-ridden by a member of staff and
replaced with live speech
 system self-check
 automatically report fault codes
 provide real time reports
 provide reports on alerts locally to station staff
 provide information on the outcome of alerts
 record the time it takes staff to respond or close an alarm
Objectives

Required outputs from development stage
 Teams will have 3 months to research and develop solution before installing it at stations
 Trial stations will be announced when projects are offered funding
 Teams will have one month to demonstrate solutions can operate without interfering with the
operational railway
 Teams must be able to demonstrate RIRL 4 and provide evidence for trial product acceptance
 Teams must develop an installation scheme plan for approval by Network Rail and work with end
users to develop training materials for station staff
Objectives: Development Stage

Required outputs from trial stage
 Your installation and trial must demonstrate that the system can:
 detect trespass, initiate an automatic deterrent and alert station staff (if applicable)
 deliver correct alerts with minimal rates of false positives and missed events
 integrate with existing Network Rail procedures and operations
After 9 months of trialling, you must be in a position to:
 evidence that capability exists to produce the system in a representative production environment
 show that performance in a representative station environment is repeatable and verifiable
 show that qualified production standard system elements are available for system integration,
test, verification and validation
Objectives: Trial Stage

 provide information to the project team required for safety assessments and product approval
 At the end of the trial, if asked by Network Rail, you must make the prototype, product or service
available at the demonstration site. This will be for continued evaluation purposes only and
should be at zero cost and for as long as required and should include the rights to use, test and
maintain the prototype.
 After this, you will take responsibility for ongoing licence agreements for system use and data
analysis outside the initial trial, and subsequent open procurement activities may follow.

 You must produce a final research report with evidence to support your findings, showing how
the technology performed in the railway environment. It must include:
 an installation and maintenance guide
 staff or user training materials
 information on successes and failures
 evidence of deployment readiness
 safety and integration details
 evidence that the system is scalable
 performance specifications of the system

Network Rail will give all applicants:
 a list of stations representative of those to be used for the trial
 Rail Industry Readiness Levels guidance
 access to specific Network Rail standards (on request)
 This supporting information is available on the secure file upload site and available to those who register
Network Rail will give successful applicants:
 access to trial stations
 access to applicable Network Rail standards
 product acceptance guidance
 contact with Network Rail installation and maintenance teams
 contact with Network Rail Telecom resource
Objectives

We discourage teams from focusing on:
 surveillance analytics
 facial recognition
 alerts driven by social media mood and/or geo-location
 mobile phone analysis
Objectives

We are not funding projects that:
 are not likely to be successfully exploited by the rail industry to deliver benefits to rail or light-rail
organisations and their customers
 are not within a year of being ready for market
 do not create a significant change in the level of innovation available in the rail industry
 are not high maturity
 have high technical risk
 cannot effectively deliver a demonstration within a railway environment
 do not deliver an immersive innovative demonstrator in a railway context
 do not feature a demonstration phase, offering the customer a chance to use the innovation and
give feedback
Projects we will not fund

Lead Organisations must:
 be an organisation of any size
 carry out its project work in the UK
 be based in the UK, EU or the EEA
Your organisation can work alone or, if you do not have all the required expertise,
you can work with others as subcontractors
Eligibility

Specific SBRI requirements:
Applications must have at least 50% of the contract value attributed directly and
exclusively for research and development (R&D) services. R&D does not include:
 commercial development activities such as quantity production
 supply to establish commercial viability or to recover R&D costs
 integration, customisation or incremental adaptations and improvements to existing
products or processes
Eligibility

Background Information
Please also see Network Rail Challenges

Competition Opened 2 December 2019
Briefing Event 5 December 2019 London
Registration Close noon 22 January 2020
Application Close noon 29 January 2020
Interviews week commencing 9 March
Applicants Notified 20 March 2020
Contracts Awarded 17 April 2020
Projects Start 1 May 2020
Competition Dates

Competition Themes:
 SBRI: innovation in rail security surveillance analytics, phase 1
 SBRI: innovation in automated tunnel examination
 Competition Information (security analytics / tunnel examination)
 Competitions Opened : 16 September 2019
 Competitions Closed : 6 November 2019
 Budget Available : £968k / £1.5M
 Total project costs : up to £121k (£250k phase 2) / £ 350k - £500k (plus VAT)
 Competition Type : SBRI
 Project Duration : 3 months (12 months phase 2) / 12-18 months
 Projects to be Funded : 8 (2 for phase 2) / up to 3
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Typical Application Errors
 Incomplete application
 Inappropriate Budget
 Project costs too high
 Project costs too low
 VAT to be included in costings (but is not included in the stated budgets available)
 Wrong collaborators
 Lack of evidence of being able to deliver demonstration in a railway environment
 Broken Application Format (must not convert format, note page limits, no figures in main application)
 Inappropriate level of maturity
 Late application
 Application submitted to the wrong competition

 Read carefully the scope document and the guidelines
(see particularly: scope documents & guidance for applicants)
 When you have finished your application, re-read these documents
 Pay attention to the expected outcomes in the priority areas
 Is there a need for your project? What’s the challenge? (business need, citizen need, technological challenge, or
market opportunity)
 Is your project within scope?
 Does it address Network Rail’s requirements?
 Why is it innovative?
 What’s the route to market?
 Take particular care not to go beyond the eligibility criteria (budget, application format, teaming requirements,
requirement for innovation)
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Competition Information
Competition brief:
https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/511/
overview
For further guidance for applicants visit:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/
competition-guidance-for-sbri-innovation-in-
railway-platform-end-and-edge-technology

For questions on scope please contact
Or contact
0300 321 4357
To improve your chances of success, you can discuss your
application with the KTN
support@innovateuk.ukri.org

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