Thales to implement telecommunications systems on Manaus monorail

Thales is to provide telecommunications systems for the Manaus monorail. The monorail will also be equipped with the Thales Seltra communications-based train control (CBTC) system to provide an integrated signalling and communications solution. “With Thales technology, the project will have a communications infrastructure that fully supports the operational, administrative and maintenance applications needed to operate the monorail, ensuring reliability, redundancy, high availability and security in station
April 18, 2013 Read time: 1 min
596 Thales is to provide telecommunications systems for the Manaus monorail. The monorail will also be equipped with the Thales Seltra communications-based train control (CBTC) system to provide an integrated signalling and communications solution.

“With Thales technology, the project will have a communications infrastructure that fully
supports the operational, administrative and maintenance applications needed to operate the monorail, ensuring reliability, redundancy, high availability and security in stations, marshalling yards and other operational facilities. The solution will include the Thales Enhanced Public Security (TEPS) system, a physical security and surveillance system to view, record and search video images and provide decision support for a wide range of operational scenarios," said Thomas Aquino, Thales key account manager for Transport in Brazil.

All the telecommunications solutions will be partly provided by Thales’s international competence centre in Portugal, working closely with Omnisys, the Group’s Brazilian subsidiary

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