Charged

Challenge 9: Monitoring and management of railway vehicle batteries.

The transition to battery-powered vehicles in the railway sector is essential for meeting net-zero climate targets, but it presents unique challenges in battery management and monitoring.

• Transition to Net-Zero: Replace diesel-powered vehicles with battery-powered alternatives to meet climate targets.
• Increased Battery Use: Anticipate a surge in diverse batteries across various vehicles and suppliers.
• High-Costs: Large capacity batteries are costly and new to the railway sector, necessitating careful monitoring.
• Need for Standardization: Address the lack of standardized analysis methods and error warning systems for effective battery management.

Background

This project has been initiated during the Hack4Rail 2025, a joint hackathon organised by the railway companies SBB, ÖBB, and DB in partnership with the OpenRail Association.

Install

Install virtual environment for Python:

make

Create .env and update according to the documentation to enable database connection.

Start dashboard:

# load data from database to local parquet file.
uv run python dashboard/preprocess_data.py
# run stramlit dashboard
uv run streamlit run dashboard/main.py

License

The content of this repository is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.