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Why DEUTA

Track record in protected memory

Crash hardened memory is a small category with a long qualification cycle. What separates suppliers is not the datasheet. It is how many units are in service, whether the testing was done by certified, accredited laboratories, and whether the supplier can still deliver against that certification in fifteen years.

DEUTA designs protected memory products specifically for data and video. Video products solve different engineering problems from data storage memory, and we build both.

Surviving the crash is the part everyone talks about, and for us it is settled ground: our housings are qualified to a variety of required standards — both the 1999 and 2013 editions of IEEE Std 1482.1, the FRA Appendix D criteria, and IEC 62625-1 where applicable. Building to whatever standard a project calls out is a known quantity.

The harder problem is the fifteen years before the accident. An event recorder writes kilobytes a minute at a stop-and-go pace. An image recording system writes several gigabytes an hour — continuously, at temperature, inside a sealed enclosure that cannot be fan-cooled. That load has to be absorbed without a gap in the recording. The file being written at the moment of impact has to remain readable after the power suddenly dies. The memory has to be exceptionally durable. And all of it has to fit inside a thermal budget the fire test has already set.

We solve those problems because we have already met them in service. A hardened enclosure, on its own, solves none of them.

Installed base

  • More than 10,000 DEUTA protected memory units in service worldwide, across event recorder and protected memory product lines.
  • Supplying crash hardened memory for video since 2021, rather than event data alone — two years before the FRA rule required it.
  • Field references across commuter rail, metro and light rail.

Systems built on DEUTA protected memory

Recorder, video and passenger system suppliers, and rolling stock manufacturers, who build DEUTA crash hardened memory into their own products. Each logo links to that company’s website.

How the certification was earned

Crash survivability testing is performed by DTC Dynamic Test Center AG in Switzerland, ISO/IEC 17025 accredited under STS 0492 — an independent laboratory, not an in-house claim. EN 50155 type testing is performed by the DEUTA-WERKE type test laboratory, which itself meets DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018. Test verification data is retained and made available to an operator or to FRA on request, as Appendix D requires.

Both sides of the interface

DEUTA builds the event recorder as well as the protected memory. The DEUTA REDBOX is an event recorder in its own right, so when a project needs event recorder and protected memory together the interface is not a negotiation between two vendors. Where a project already has an event recorder, or a video recorder from another supplier, the CHM presents as network storage and stays out of the way.

All CHM Modules are Manufactured in the USA - FTA Buy America compliant

Manufactured in the USA

  • All CHM Modules are Manufactured in the USA - FTA Buy America compliant.
  • Developed in the USA as well as built here. The product was designed in the United States, not adapted from a design held elsewhere, so the engineering that answers a specification question is the engineering that made the decision.
  • The printed circuit board assemblies are made in the USA, not populated offshore and finished here.
  • Buy America documentation supplied with any quotation or on request, so a federally funded procurement does not stall waiting for it.
  • US-based engineering and technical support, in US time zones.

Designed to still be supportable in 2040

  • MTBF above 500,000 hours on the video modules and above 1,000,000 hours on the data modules, calculated to SN 29500.
  • Documented obsolescence and lifecycle management for memory components, which is the part of a storage product that ages fastest.
  • Serial number, configuration and software package identification marked on every unit and encoded in a QR code on the label, so a technician can identify exactly what is installed in a cab without opening anything, and a fleet remains traceable after a decade of service.
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Independent testing

  • DTC Dynamic Test Center AG, Switzerland
  • ISO/IEC 17025 accredited, STS 0492
  • DEUTA-WERKE type test laboratory, to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018