CONDITION MONITORING THROUGH RAIL-BASED ACOUSTIC DOMAIN TECHNOLOGY - Proven @ High-Speed Rail The new and most effective broken rail detection system, known as RailAcoustic® is designed and manufactured by Enekom. Apart from all other broken rail sensing methods, RailAcoustic® works on the principle of applying a specific frequency of vibration to rails at a certain point and then sensing this vibration both from a sensor located near to the signal injection point and from another sensor which is located at a faraway point and correlating both detection results and reaching to an accurate and precise final conclusion. Most basic characteristics of the RailAcoustic® Broken Rail Detection System are as follows: • It can be used satisfactorily at the continuously welded rail systems and also at the conventional railway lines with approximately 1 Km apart insulated joint rail segments. • It can work independently from the ballast resistor value. • The system works completely isolated from the electrical properties of the track and it can sense the broken rail segments on any AC, DC or unelectrified tracks. • The system modules can easily be installed or dismantled without any damage to the rails. • Performance tests have been completed satisfactorily on an existing high-speed railway double track (90 km section) which is in compliance with the UIC60 standards (KONYA-ANKARA LINE, Operated by Turkish Railways Authority / TCDD). • It works effectively, reliably and responsively under all weather conditions.