This article first appeared in the Bus-News magazine Issue 1, October 2021
The whole of the SPOT™ ITS is spread across the nation in strategically placed servers, which improves the communication speed to our transit customers and delivers 99.99% uptime. Out-of-the-box, our cloud-hosted SPOT™ intelligent transit system (ITS) creates a sustainable foundation for transit operations. Packed with essential tools and capabilities, our ITS solution provides an immediate boost and sets the table for simplified expansion and customisation for the future.
SPOT™ frees transit agencies from the costly paradigm of proprietary hardware, expensive maintenance, slow product development, and poor customer service. SPOT™ can be run from any Internet browser, and the onboard hardware we install is commercially available (COTS)—which improves reliability, reduces cost, and minimises supply chain concerns. If the hardware isn’t reliable, then the performance of the ITS system suffers. Which is why for over 10 years, ETA has standardised its hardware on the SINTRONES® VBox, an incredibly robust onboard COTS computer that powers vehicle equipment and negotiates the fl ow of data to SPOT’s cloud servers. With SINTRONES® under the hood, the stability of the SPOT™ system is never in question. ETA Transit makes it easy to switch without incurring substantial costs in the process.
The SPOT™ intelligent transit system embraces a modular system architecture, which provides an incredible amount of customisation. Transit agencies can fine-tune their deployment to include only those features they want.
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