Initially, the focus will be on the Piccadilly Line, which is one of the Underground’s ‘deep tube’ lines with the track in some locations 30m below ground.
Sustainability is an important part of the project.
Another Spinview product, the Deep Rail Sensor device, will capture the geometry of a space and ‘sniff out’ any environmental pollutants.
Its key features include a real-world replica that will reveal information that may have been hidden from the human eye, such as identifying faults, locating heat hotspots, and pinpointing where noise is coming from.
It avoids the need to physically go below ground during limited time slots, so that TfL’s staff will no longer be restricted to physically inspecting and surveying assets below ground between the engineering hours of 01:00-05:00.
Paul Judge, Director of the Piccadilly Line Upgrade project, at TfL, says: “This partnership with Spinview offers us a really exciting opportunity to gain real-time access to our assets on the Underground network, many of which we can currently only inspect during engineering hours.