Hitachi to acquire Omnicom rail asset monitoring technology business

INTERNATIONAL: Hitachi Rail has agreed to acquire Balfour Beatty’s rail asset monitoring technology business Omnicom. Hitachi said this would form a ‘key strategic pillar’ of the Hyper Mobility Asset Expert platform launched at InnoTrans 2024.

Derby-based Omnicom provides hardware and software for surveying, inspecting and monitoring rail infrastructure assets. Its monitoring systems can be installed on trains, and it uses edge computing and machine learning t…