MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR COMPENSATED OVERHEAD CONTACT LINES

The present invention consists of an expert system that receives data from multiple instrumented counterweights installed in each of the compensation assemblies of each wire in the sections of the compensated or catenary overhead contact line of a railway section, line or network. The instrumented counterweight has a control unit that locally processes the data and generates certain warnings or, alternatively, the expert system processes the data and generates all the warnings. Likewise, it has an inertia sensor and a room temperature sensor and, optionally, other sensors for distance, laser, radio, ultrasound, luminosity, moisture, GPS, etc.