So Caliph Baraq torpedo’d “smart” rail cars.
Interesting.
What you described is basically the setup used on race cars where parameters are telemetered to the pits for analysis basically in real time.
I built 2 generations of the monitoring system. First gen was described in papers I presented to IEEE/ASME in Pueblo, CO in 2005. A related paper focused on the CANOpen technology I used was presented at the 10th International CAN Conference in Rome in 2005. By the time the concept was ready in the field, I had 46 vendors building the components. We we ready to roll live on the tracks when Obama trashed it. Some of the project components remain in my basement. The PC104 CPU cards were right at end of life due to a change in the Linux kernel that added in instruction missing in the SOC IP onboard that implemented the CPU.