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ANNAX - Passenger Information Systems

Products

The monitoring of functional processes, from an idea to its implementation, is the guarantee for our customers to receive reliable components for a passenger information system for railways from former ANNAX. All products leave our premises after being tested 100% for functionality.

Ensuring high quality is our priority during:
  • Distribution and project management
  • Development and testing
  • Acquisition and production
  • Installation and maintenance
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Connecting you in Safe and Smart Mobility

Our comprehensive passenger information system solutions cover the entire passenger journey, from boarding and departure to on-board entertainment, simplifying and improving the travel experience.

PIS controllers

Our high-performance Passenger Information System (PIS) controller enhance visibility of passenger information to keep your passengers informed at all times.

  • Automated public announcements with pre-defined audio fragments or text-to-speech technology
  • Smartphone apps for train crew to communicate with passengers, broadcast special messages, and receive information
  • Get flexibility, our applications can be hosted on third-party servers in a virtual machine
  • Real-time interface to Operation Control Centers
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LED display for railway

LED display

Our project specific high quality LED displays give passengers clearly visible information where the train is going to. These can be produced in just one color or full color according to customer’s requirements.

  • Various resolutions can be produced
  • Design flexibility
  • Fully integrable in train design
  • Extremely long lifetime

TFT displays / iSmart displays

Opening up new dimensions by providing to the passenger a better user experience and an easy integrating into trains, metros, and trams. iSmart Displays brings you multiple benefits:

  • Better visual experience, high visual rendering, great aesthetic design
  • Smart and easy integration, design flexibility
  • New ways to display, ultra-stretched, ultra-thin & double-sided
  • Operating costs savings, long lifetime, low power consumption
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Seat reservation OLED display for railway

Seat reservation

Our automated electronic systems enable your passengers to quickly locate their seat upon boarding. They also enable train staff to make short-term bookings and modify reservations on board.

  • Automated electronic system that displays reserved seats
  • In-seat Custom designed OLED displays that fit smoothly into every train design
  • Strip display that can be easy and quick install on overhead luggage rack
  • Full connection to the control center and ticket sales center

Audio system

Our Audio system provides to a train driver the possibility to make announcement and inform the passenger in the train instantly. It also includes high quality audio amplifiers for high quality voice information.

  • Active or passive gooseneck microphone
  • Internal and external loudspeakers
  • Internal Loudspeaker with volume control for the cab
  • Audio control units for the cab
  • Redundant audio amplifier with Ethernet connection and optional UIC audio fall back
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Emergency call unit for railway

Emercency or help call units

Our user-friendly intercom systems optimize passenger security by rapidly connecting passengers to drivers, train attendants or to a train control center. The combination of our audio intercom with our video surveillance makes the train crew more responsive when getting an emergency call.

  • Full duplex and multi-conference capabilities between all parties
  • Audio line backup and compatibility with UIC trains
  • SIL2 fail safe option
  • Crew announcement intercoms
  • Smartphone app for crew announcements

Passenger counting and car occupancy information

Our high-quality counters inform your passengers regarding seat availability and redirect them to less crowded cars to find a seat.

  • Automated counters that quickly determine on-board occupancy levels
  • 3D image processing algorithms to analyze the flow of people
  • Optimized architecture as a result of its integration into the passenger information system
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Infotainment display for railway

In-train infotainment

Our infotainment systems make your passengers’ journey more pleasant, scalable systems to meet your need.

  • TFT displays in coaches, iSmart display is the ideal companion that gives crystal clear images and videos
  • In-seat audio, daisy chain wiring for a low-cost wiring
  • In-seat video, complementary display for full entertainment

Video Management System (VMS)

A multi-service video surveillance solution that enables quick response to alerts and police requests

  • Security – VMS is the best means to help you identify threats and make the right decisions at the right time.

  • Operations – VMS offers you the possibility to simplify your daily operations. Incident response times are reduced thanks to an advanced alarm-management system.

  • Maintenance – VMS provides tools to facilitate the maintenance of the CCTV fleet. System availability is optimized through periodic collection of equipment status.

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network video recorders

Network Video Recorders

Guaranteed recording availability in all configurations

The great variety of the video recorders product range makes easy the integration in the vehicle whatever is LRV, metro, mass transit or mainline train.

Most specific project requirements can be easily implemented using the configuration capabilities of this equipment.

SCS – Supervision and Control System

Search has never been so fast

Supervision and Control System (SCS) provides easy access to all essential information (video, vehicle position, operation and maintenance data).

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x track advanced video player

X-Track – Advanced Video Player

Fly over the itinerary with the mouse for an analysis in the flash.

Whether you are an occasional user or a regular X-Track user, its multi-level ergonomics and rich set of tools allow you to quickly get to the essentials.

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Solutions

About us

Who we are

We are now Wabtec, and we are happy to provide you passenger information with all the long time experience from ANNAX.

ANNAX was founded in 1996 through a management buy-out and emerged from a division of the company BOSCH. Since then, ANNAX was able to become a leading supplier in the market of passenger information systems through strategic acquisitions and organic growth.

In 2018 ANNAX Group has been acquired by Wabtec Corporation.

The former ANNAX Group, now Wabtec, consists of 3 companies located in Germany, Switzerland and China. The number of employees has increased from 10 to over 500. Together we develop, design, integrate and manufacture a range of products, solutions and services for worldwide application in the public transport sector as per EN 50155.

Wabtec’s cybersecurity program, certified to IEC 62443-4-1 in early 2024, provides well-defined benchmarks throughout the development lifecycle. This standards-driven approach enables a common cybersecurity baseline for Wabtec products.

At the same time, ANNAX locations have successfully achieved the ISO/IEC 27001 information security management systems certification.

We serve from Light Rail Vehicle (LRV), Metro, Electric and Diesel Multiple Units (EMU & DMU) up to High Speed train projects to our customers. These projects are for new trains or are to retrofit of older trains with a new passenger information system. The service offering of ANNAX is characterized by technological value added.

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Looking for a customized solution?

We would be happy to develop a unique solution for your Passenger Information System project needs.

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Our Power in Numbers

We design and manufacture electronic-mechanical products for passenger information systems (PIS) in the railway industry:

  • High speed trains
  • Electric and Diesel Multiple Units (EMUs & DMUs)
  • Train cars
  • Metros trains
  • Trams and Light Rail Vehicles (LRV)

We are a part of Wabtec corporation, a leading supplier for railway industry. The ANNAX Group is present at 3 different locations.

Safe, high-quality and green transportation is our priority. Welcome to the future of transportation.

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References

The former ANNAX Group can look back on many years of experience in the various product and service areas. ANNAX products are in use in numerous countries around the world.

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Our locations

Where you can find us

ANNAX Competence Centre Brunnthal

Our site in Brunnthal is competent in complete solutions for passenger information systems, fleet management systems, the Flexity 2 platform, and multimedia and infotainment systems.
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ANNAX Competence Centre Bern

Our site in Bern is competent in highly complex and complete solutions for passenger information systems, high speed platforms like Eurostar, Velaro D, ICx-DB and SMILE, as well as seat reservation systems and IP network solutions.

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ANNAX Competence Centre Suzhou

Our site in Suzhou is competent in complete solutions for passenger information systems, metro platforms (in- and outside of China), multimedia and infotainment systems, and the production of ultra-wide displays.

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