Innovative Safety Glasses for track workers wins iF Design Award

Dual Inventive, Chrono Eyewear, GBO Innovation Makers have been awarded the prestigious iF Design Award 2025 for their Smart Safety Glasses. These innovative safety glasses are specifically designed for track workers to enhance alertness and reduce fatigue, improving safety on and around the tracks. iF Design Award The iF Design Award is a leading design … Continued

Dual Inventive and Network Rail sign Collaborative Working Agreement to boost adoption of innovative railway safety tool, the ZKL 3000 RC (remote-controlled track circuit operating device). On Wednesday 24th July 2024, Dual Inventive, a leading provider of innovative railway technology solution, and Network Rail, the owner and operator of Britain’s rail network, signed a Collaborative … Continued

Leaders in rail safety technology, Tended and Dual Inventive, have announced a new partnership focused on bringing geofencing technology to the Netherlands to support the drive within the Dutch rail industry to improve safety and efficiency. The Netherlands has a dense rail network accommodating a multitude of passenger and freight trains. The challenges of climate … Continued

Arcobel Embedded Solutions B.V. (Arcobel) has been acquired by Acal BFi Nederland B.V. (Acal). The parties signed a sale and purchase agreement on Friday 14 June 2024 and aim to complete the transaction in August. Acal is a leading provider of design-led technical sales support to its 6,000 customers across Europe, offering custom solutions and … Continued

The video below shows you how much work it takes to test whether there is voltage on the overhead line and how to short-circuit it. This job is not very pleasant and can be quite dirty plus resource intensive. Strukton Rail Nederland felt that there was an alternative way to perform this task especially for … Continued

Marleen van de Kerkhof, International Affairs Manager at Dual Inventive, is one of the winners of the International Railway Journal’s Young Rail Leaders Award for 2023! Marleen’s enthusiasm, commitment and knowledge will hopefully inspire a new generation of people. The global rail industry is experiencing two concurrent human resources challenges: the impending retirement of a … Continued

Launched in 2014, the Osmoze programme (Outils Sécurité Modernes et Operationnels en Zone Exploitée – Modern Safety Equipment in the Work Area) covers a number of projects aimed at enhancing safety on work sites and improving the efficiency of various production operations. Part of the project involves an intelligent safety tool a remotely operated Track … Continued

On 14 December 2022, rail ambassadors of the European Year of Youth Marleen van de Kerkhof (on behalf of Railforum and Jonge Veranderaars) and Oscar Vermeij (on behalf of Rail Cargo information Netherlands) handed over their final report titled “The future is ours!” to State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen of Infrastructure and Water Management. In the … Continued

Dual Inventive introduces geofence technology for locating workforce safety devices, such as the Track Circuit Operating Device (TCOD). During Railcenter’s Rail Festival, on 28 September, will be the first opportunity for a demonstration of the international innovation that makes misplacements of TCOD’s a thing of the past. Self-monitoring Track Circuit Operating Device TCODs are used … Continued

During the General Assembly in Paris, UNIFE – the European association of the Rail Supply Industry – ratified Dual Inventive’s membership. The Oisterwijk-based company is the only Dutch member of this European organisation to which more than a hundred companies are affiliated. Dual Inventive will work in collaboration with UNIFE to develop a single European … Continued

Following successful treatment for Leukaemia, I am pleased to tell you that I will be resuming my role as Managing Director as of Monday, 25 July. During my absence, I know that many of you will have met Mark Prescott who joined as International Business Development Director, but has been kindly filling in for me … Continued

FluxPlus and Dual Inventive are working in partnership to manage fatigue within the rail sector. CEO Jacob Zeeman and CTO Lex van der Poel of Dual Inventive and CEO Toine Schoutens of FluxPlus signed a declaration of intent on 11 July. Both parties have an understanding of the importance of sustainable employability of railway personnel … Continued

At the International Exhibition on Track Technology (iaf) in the first week of June, Dual Inventive and Plasser & Theurer announced a cooperation agreement to help increase railway uptime and improve the safety of track workers. The goal of this partnership is to increase the output of track work machines, reducing the downtime for the … Continued

15 best-in-class companies launching novel Alliance at IAF Münster to increase the safety, efficiency and capacity of railway infrastructure globally Leveraging digitalisation, innovation and collaboration to create complete, sustainable, cost-effective and convenient solutions Today at the IAF (Internationale Ausstellung für Fahrwerktechnik) in Münster, Germany, 15 leading European railway track technology pioneers announced the formation of … Continued

2022 has been declared the European Year of Youth. To strengthen this initiative of the European Commission, Marleen van de Kerkhof and Oscar Vermeij have been appointed rail ambassadors. They believe that young people play an important role in the future of the railways and therefore feel it is essential to devote attention to this … Continued

This week Prorail awarded the tender for delivering 700 network switches for the “Onderpost Communicatie Netwerk (OCN)” to Arcobel Embedded Solutions. ProRail will roll-out these network switches the upcoming year on 350 “OCNs” to ensure the continuity of this network of the train signalling system. Douwe Schoenmakers, Managing Director of Arcobel Embedded Solutions, emphasises the … Continued

Rail solutions provider Dual Inventive has appointed Mark Prescott as new International Business Development Director in response to impressive growth in the UK. Prescott is charged with leading the company’s ongoing ambitious plans in the United Kingdom and accelerating the implementation of Dual Inventive’s technologies in the United States and Australia. He joins the Dutch … Continued

Thanks to new applications, rail operators can see whether their point heating system is switched on and check that the rails are being heated to the right temperature – remotely and around the clock. They can also turn the point heating system on and off remotely. “Faults in point heating systems are often detected too … Continued

As a new partner of the 5G Hub on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, the Oisterwijk-based technology company Dual Inventive is focusing on a Dutch joining of forces in the field of IoT and sensor technology. The signing of the ecosystem partnership by CTO Lex van der Poel of Dual Inventive, Business Development Manager Iris … Continued

The workforce safety system ZKL 3000 RC has been authorised by SNCF Reseau DGOP for use on the French railways. After going through all the procedures for authorisation, the certificate was awarded on 15 June 2021 to the technology company Dual Inventive, which developed the system. This further opens the door for the rail sector … Continued

Dual Inventive has taken over 100% of the shares of Insydes Group (consisting of Core|Vision and Arcobel Embedded Solutions). CEO Jacob Zeeman and CTO Lex van der Poel from Dual Inventive and CEO Sjef ten Den from Insydes Group signed the agreement on 3 June, confirming the transaction with retroactive effect from 1 January 2021. … Continued

Ground breaking technology company Dual Inventive has celebrated the next chapter in its ambitious expansion plans with the launch of new company AnyWare. Dual Inventive, which develops and produces innovative technical products to improve rail capacity, network efficiency and track worker safety, has diversified to allow their digital products to be used across different business … Continued

Rail services provider Dual Inventive hopes to create 32 jobs after upsizing into 18,000 sq ft at a new Doncaster business park as part of 10 year expansion plan. The company, which uses technology to make improvements and efficiencies in the rail network, has moved from a 500 sq ft base in Doncaster to the … Continued

In recent years, the UK rail industry has been embracing new technologies to both increase track capacity and improve the safety of rail workers. Adrian Calladine, Product Implementation Coordinator at Dual Inventive Ltd, works to help market and deploy this new technology in the United Kingdom. In his opinion, the implementation of these new technologies … Continued

Jacob Zeeman started on Monday as the new CEO of rail solutions company Dual Inventive. Last week, Zeeman signed the contract with the managing directors, which at the time of signing consisted of Lex van der Poel and Eric Groenen. Zeeman left Strukton Rail at the beginning of October as a top executive because of … Continued

Together, ProRail, ILT, Strukton Rail and DB Cargo, in collaboration with Dual Inventive, carried out a successful pilot with the RCS 3000 (Remote Control Signal), in the Netherlands, to make work on the track at marshalling yards safer and more efficient. With this remotely controlled red signal, you can secure the worksite via an app … Continued

That vital processes depend upon human hands becomes clear during the current corona pandemic. It would be good to learn from this now and so make more use of technology. Internet of Thing (IoT) helps the rail industry in times of crisis. “If there were sensors across the whole network, more railway staff could work … Continued

People are already calling it the new railroad track: the point on which our rail infrastructure is connected. With the arrival of NarrowBand IoT, this may be accelerated. The network has barely gone live and the future is already taking shape. The Dutch company Dual Inventive – a pioneer in IoT applications for the railway … Continued

How embracing technology created a safer environment for colleagues – and a saved nearly half a million pounds in the process. At the flick of a switch, Network Rail’s London North Eastern and East Midlands’ (LNE & EM) Works Delivery off-track team were able to solve a trio of problems linked to their need to … Continued