Patent ID: 11952025
Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 11:
12. A rail vehicle, comprising:
control software configured for implementation in a multiplicity of rail vehicles;
said control software having basic functions for a basic operation of the rail vehicle and optional functions intended to implement a multiplicity of customer-specific requirements profiles;
wherein the embodiments, combinations and functional sequences of the basic functions and the optional functions have been tested, validated and approved before an implementation of the control software in the rail vehicle;
wherein at least one of the optional functions can be selectively activated or deactivated using a switching parameter individually assigned to the respective optional function;
the switching parameter required for activating or deactivating the optional function is created remotely from the rail vehicle on a basis of a special customer-specific requirement profile and is subsequently transmitted to the selected rail vehicle for configuring the control software; and
wherein contents of assigned switching parameters are selected and determined by a manufacturer of the rail vehicle in order to enable a fleet management in which selected rail vehicles are configured to execute specific tasks according to a specification of the customer-specific requirement profile;
wherein the switching parameters are transmitted to the selected rail vehicle in encrypted form and specific to the selected vehicle, and a transmission to the specific vehicle is encrypted with an individual identification number of the selected rail vehicle for enabling only the selected rail vehicle to carry out a decryption in the selected vehicle in order to use the switching parameters.