Primary functions of Roskosmos's automated hazardous and valuable freight tracking system are:

• Telemetric hazardous and valuable freight condition data collection;
• Freight and escort railcars' coupling location determination;
• Telemetry data transmission to CCC and ACC;
• "Alert" signal transmission through "COSPAS-SARSAT" space system;
• Freight cargo condition control by escort railcar personnel (ERP).

Hardware-software complex provides:

• Satellite communication between escort railcar personnel (ERP), central control center (CCC) and auxiliary control center (ACC);
• Voice communication of escort railcar personnel with engine crew.

Currently, a prototype unit is produced and has passed its trial tests.

Railroad HF/VF MMU compact HSC

Communication and positioning hardware module.

Operator workstation

Radio channel module and "Argon-M" device

GANK-4 gas analyzer

"COSPAS-SARSAT" system emergency radio beacon

Hazardous and valuable freight (HF/VF) mobile monitoring unit (MMU) compact hardware-software complex (HSC) is designed for performing the following operations:

• Train positioning determination (GLONASS/GPS);
• Transportation process conditions data gathering;
• Automated transmission of HF/VF condition and train location data into industry monitoring and operations management center (IMOMC);
• Emergency "Alert" signal transmission through "COSPAS-SARSAT" space system.

Vehicle should have the following capabilities:

• Vehicle geolocation via GLONASS or GLONASS/GPS with 30 meters precision in any point en route;
• Accumulation and transmission to control centers of freight cargo conditions information from sensor and converting equipment (SCE);
• Automated transmission to central control center of Roskosmos HF/VF transportation AMS of transport vehicle location information;
• Emergency "Alert" message transmission from transport vehicle, including via "COSPAS-SARSAT" system radio beacon.

Central monitoring center should provide:

• HF/VF transportation routes database maintenance;
• Accumulation and processing of location data for all tracked transport vehicles and HF/VF condition;
• Displaying of planned and actual information on electronic maps using GIS;
• "Alert" messages reception;
• Data exchange with escort groups;
• Information interoperability with facility SMOMC of freight forwarder companies, Russian EMERCOM NECC, OAO "Rossiyskie Zhelezhie Dorogi" administration, etc.