Automated Rail Yard Tracking

Autonomous, real-time visibility of all movements in your yard.

Canopy Vision delivers automated rail yard tracking using AI-powered cameras and RFID integration. Track railcar locations as they move within your yard, reduce the number of RFID readers required, and lower installation and maintenance costs compared to traditional systems — with 24/7 video recordings.

Rail Yard Tracking

See Canopy Vision in action

Watch how AI vision and RFID work together to track railcar movements across your yard.

Rail Yard Tracking

Consider this example railyard layout with 14 different track segments.

24/7

Yard visibility

Real-time

Movement reporting

Centralized

Video + RFID data

Fewer

Install points

Rail yard activity snapshot with car positions and movement context

Service Overview

How automated rail yard tracking works

Automated rail yard tracking combines strategically placed cameras with AI vision and RFID integration to monitor railcar movements and locations throughout the yard. Operations teams gain real-time visibility into yard activity through an easy-to-use dashboard, reducing the time spent manually locating railcars and verifying movements.

Operational Outcomes

What teams can do with continuous yard visibility

Real-time railcar movement reporting

Quickly search and locate cars remotely

Reduce time spent manually tracking assets

Review overhead video footage for incident investigation

Improve operational visibility across the yard

Audit contractor activity and critical events

Rail yard monitoring setup using cameras and RFID at fewer install points

Why AI Vision

Fewer install points than RFID-only systems

Traditional RFID-only tracking systems can require extensive infrastructure, including power, networking, and conduit installation across dozens of switch locations.

Canopy Vision's AI vision solution reduces hardware and installation requirements by leveraging strategically placed cameras and integrated software, helping reduce deployment complexity, lower infrastructure costs, and improve operational visibility across the yard.

How It Works

A practical path from cameras to usable yard data

Cameras monitor movement

Cameras monitor movement at key yard locations and switches.

AI and RFID identify cars

AI vision and RFID identify cars as they move through the yard.

Dashboards centralize reporting

Dashboard reporting centralizes activity, search, and incident review.

Railcar tracking dashboard with centralized reporting and review tools

Dashboard and Review

Centralized reporting with visual context

Search yard activity, review overhead video footage, and audit critical events from one dashboard. Teams can verify what happened without relying on manual checks or single-purpose hardware alone.