Station automation infrastructure, Gare de Mons
Control and distribution infrastructure for the new Mons station: engineered by GANI Engineering, built as documented panel series by GANI Manufacturing, and handed over technical room by technical room while the station stayed open.
- Delivery geography
- Belgium
- Variants in scope
- 9 technical rooms, 24 panel types
- Program duration
- 14 months, staged handover
- Responsibility level
- Work package
- Standards applied
- IEC 61439-1/-2 · IEC 60364 installation practice · Client technical specification
Schematic elevation drawn by GANI to locate the scope — not an architectural document.
What the delivered system actually does.
What was delivered is the layer between a station building and the people running it. Every technical room in the station holds control and distribution panels; those panels feed and switch the lighting, drive the ventilation and smoke-extraction interfaces, and report the state of each zone back to one supervision screen in the operations room.
In daily use it means an operator sets a lighting profile for the concourse by time of day rather than by walking to a switch room, sees a ventilation fault as a named zone rather than as an alarm code, and can hand a contractor a documented isolation for one area without darkening the rest of the station.
What it is for, in one sentence: a station that stays open, stays lit, stays ventilated, and can prove — room by room, with a test record per panel — that each zone was accepted before it was used.
A station is not a factory: it never really stops, the public is inside it, and the architecture leaves technical rooms scattered wherever the structure allows. The automation infrastructure had to reach a soaring concourse, the platform level below it and a set of remote technical rooms — with cable routes fixed by the building, an electrical contractor working to a construction programme, and an operator who needed every zone documented before accepting it.
STARTING CONDITIONA specification, a room schedule and a single-line concept existed. The detailed panel design, the field distribution and the integration to the operator systems did not.
- Client technical specification and room schedule
- Single-line concept and load lists per technical room
- Architectural and MEP coordination drawings
- Operator interface and naming conventions for the supervision system
- Construction programme with staged handover dates
- Detailed electrical design in EPLAN, panel by panel, against the room schedule
- Series build of the control and distribution panels to IEC 61439 in Bursa
- Factory acceptance test per panel, with the client joining the critical ones
- Field distribution boxes, labelling and cable schedules prepared per zone
- Controls programming and integration to the operator supervision system
- Staged delivery and on-site support through commissioning and handover
What the program delivers.
- Every technical room handed over with its own documentation set and test record
- Concourse, platform and technical zones supervised from one operator interface
- Panels arrived pre-tested, so site time went into commissioning rather than rework
- Naming and labelling consistent from the drawing to the supervision screen
What the infrastructure actually controls.
- 01Concourse and platform lighting control by zone and time profile
- 02HVAC control interfaces and smoke-extraction signalling
- 03Escalator, lift and gate status collected for supervision
- 04Access control and technical-room monitoring
- 05Gateway to the operator supervision system
- 06Energy metering per zone and per feeder
