Logistics & transport
Industrial IoT for Rail
LoRaWAN sensors, gateways and dashboards for Rail — specified, stocked and supported by UK engineers.
Industrial IoT for Rail replaces manual rounds, spreadsheets and blind spots with live LoRaWAN telemetry: low-power sensors, resilient gateways and dashboards that flag a problem the hour it happens, not the week after. Indiott specifies, stocks and supports the full stack and ships across the UK from local warehouses.
Great Britain's railway is one of Europe's busiest, carrying 1,729 million passenger journeys and moving 16.5 billion net tonne kilometres of freight in 2024 to 2025 across a 15,747 km network overseen by Network Rail and the Office of Rail and Road. Ageing lineside assets, tight possession windows and strict rolling stock standards make remote condition monitoring genuinely useful. LoRaWAN sensors and hardened gateways let engineers watch trackside cabinets, depots and stations without cutting into limited access time.
Industrial IoT for Rail: sensors, gateways and dashboards
Built for Rolling stock and depot engineers, Network Rail and infrastructure asset managers, Station facilities and estates managers, Rail freight operators and ROSCOs and Signalling and telecoms (S&T) teams. Every asset that fails quietly — a pump, a chiller, a cold store, a plant room — is a candidate for a battery LoRaWAN sensor reporting to one dashboard. Typical Industrial IoT for Rail deployments include:
- Temperature and humidity monitoring in signalling relay rooms and equipment cabinets
- Condition monitoring of trackside assets and lineside cabinets over LoRaWAN
- Depot and rolling stock shed environmental, energy and door monitoring
- Water leak and flood detection in cable troughs, cess and tunnels
- Occupancy and footfall sensing across stations and car parks
- Secure OT gateways linking trackside sensors to control and asset systems
LoRaWAN sensors and gateways for Rail
The Industrial IoT for Rail hardware below is UK-stocked and dispatched nationwide. Every device joins the same five-layer stack, so you can start with one gateway and a handful of sensors and scale without re-platforming.
UR35Industrial cellular routerDual-SIM 4G/5G router for resilient connectivity at remote and mobile sites.
UG67Outdoor LoRaWAN gatewayIP67 outdoor gateway for site-wide coverage across yards, plants and campuses.
TS101Insertion temperature sensorLoRaWAN insertion probe for pipe, tank and process temperature.
EM300Leak / contact / T+RH sensorCompact EM300 series for door, leak, temperature and humidity monitoring.
EM500Outdoor environmental sensorRugged EM500 series for outdoor CO2, level, pressure and soil measurement.
UG65Semi-industrial LoRaWAN gateway8-channel indoor gateway backhauling hundreds of LoRaWAN sensors over Ethernet, Wi-Fi or cellular.
Compliance and drivers in Rail
Onboard and trackside electronics are shaped by EN 50155 for rolling stock equipment, plus RSSB Railway Group Standards and Network Rail company standards (RIS documents). Infrastructure work sits under the Office of Rail and Road as safety regulator and the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (ROGS) Regulations. Anything installed near the track must respect Network Rail approval, EMC and asset protection requirements.
Indiott builds the monitoring and evidence layer around those duties: continuous data, threshold alarms that reach the duty engineer by SMS, and timestamped records you can hand to an auditor. Useful references: Rail statistics compendium (Office of Rail and Road) Rail Trends 2025 (Department for Transport). The stacks rail teams reach for most:
Why Rail teams choose Indiott
Here is why rail operators pick Indiott as their Industrial IoT for Rail partner rather than a generic reseller.
UK stock, UK delivery
Milesight, Atop and AquaIoT hardware supplied from the UK, typically dispatched within 14 working days nationwide.
Engineer-led, not box-shifting
An engineer scopes every enquiry and returns a costed bill of materials within one working day.
One stack, many brands
Interoperable sense, connect, secure, control and manage layers, so you are never locked to a single vendor.
Bespoke when off-the-shelf ends
When the device you need does not exist, we design and build it — firmware, enclosure and integration.
Industrial IoT for Rail: frequently asked questions
Do your sensors meet rail equipment standards like EN 50155?
Standard LoRaWAN sensors are not EN 50155 certified rolling stock equipment; they suit trackside cabinets, depots, stations and estates rather than onboard control circuits. For anything mounted on a vehicle or safety-critical system we scope EN 50155 rated hardware and Network Rail approval separately.
How do sensors report where there is no mains power or cabling at the lineside?
Battery LoRaWAN devices run for years on internal cells and reach a gateway up to several kilometres away, so cable troughs, remote cabinets and rural sites can be covered without new wiring or extra track possessions.
Can this integrate with our existing control and asset systems?
Yes. Data can be pushed to your own dashboards, historians or CMMS over MQTT or API, so condition data lands where your S&T and asset teams already work.
Scope your Rail project
Tell us the asset, the site and the constraint. An Indiott engineer maps it to the right Industrial IoT for Rail stack and sends an itemised quote within one working day.
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