Dorfbahn Serfaus: Short, fast, safe and digital. With CANCOM Austria.
Vienna, August 22, 2019 - The municipality of Serfaus in Tyrol with a population of 1,125 has a subway line. With a route length of just 1.28 kilometers, the Dorfbahn may be considerably shorter than the Vienna subway network, but the "Alpen-U-Bahn" has nothing to hide. After three and a half years of intensive modernization work, the Dorfbahn has been transporting 3,000 passengers per hour since the beginning of July. This is made possible thanks to innovative assistance systems and digital technology from K-Businesscom.
In four stations at 1,400 meters above sea level.
Europe's most modern aerial tramway runs neither on rails nor on wheels. It glides along on an air cushion one millimeter above the ground, driven by a traction cable. The cable car was built in the mid-1980s to relieve the village's roads. However, thirty years after it opened, the Dorfbahn had reached its capacity limits. It was therefore extensively modernized from 2016 to 2019. The new railroad has been in operation since July 2019. The train is now almost 45 instead of 30 meters long and can transport 3,000 people per hour instead of the previous 1,600. That's almost twice as many as before. In addition, the intervals between trains have been reduced from ten to nine minutes.
Comprehensive solutions from a single source.
K-Businesscom is Austria's only digitalization provider to offer complete solutions from a single source. The company not only supplied the entire network technology for the new train, but also the IT for the vehicle, the assistance systems, the video surveillance, the monitor and the emergency call systems. The complete radio system for the company radio, blue light and fire department - an analog radio network for firefighting operations - also comes from K-Businesscom. "We provide the hardware and develop the entire safety concept," says Kamran Kiafar, Account Manager Mountain Railways and Industry at K-Businesscom. "The core of the system is a security control center where everything comes together. If an emergency call is made, for example, the cameras in the area automatically switch on and show a picture of the situation."
For the first time in the ropeway industry, smart glasses with the associated technical knowledge database are being used for maintenance and servicing. Thanks to this digital assistance system from Evolaris (a subsidiary of K-Businesscom), service operations can be carried out remotely for the most part. This helps the cable car operator in Serfaus to avoid cost-intensive on-site operations. "Our core competence at K-Businesscom is end-to-end solutions and their operation. We combine network and IT with security technology, smart solutions and multimedia. We are not only a digitalization partner for our customers, but also a consultant," says Kiafar.
As a leading digitalization partner,K-Businesscom supports companies in increasing their business performance and developing new business models. K-Businesscom acts as a consultant, system supplier and service provider. With its comprehensive expertise in dealing with large amounts of data and security as well as a large number of successful use cases in numerous industries, K-Businesscom is the ideal companion for digital transformation. The extensive portfolio in Austria, Romania and the DACH region includes technology solutions for intelligent and, above all, secure ICT infrastructure, smart building, media and security technology as well as outsourcing services. K-Businesscom relies on vendor independence and partnerships with leading global providers such as HPE, Cisco and Microsoft as well as a broad network of partners from research and industry-specific solution providers - from start-ups to large corporations.
K-Businesscom has over 17,000 customers - e.g. Allianz, Erste Bank, ÖBB, OMV, ORF or Vodafone - and supports them locally and globally. 1.330 K-Businesscom employees generated revenue of around EUR 380 million in the 2018/19 financial year.