Cloud computing in the service of railway maintenance

The evolutions on the new information technology tools make us innovating in perpetuity. We see all around a world communicating faster and faster, the ideas multiply, the concepts change constantly. Now comes the "cloud computing", a new solution that makes noise, which everyone talks nowadays in the software world. This article allows knowing more and focus in remote switch monitoring, one of the many applications in railways for this new information technology. (4 pages)