Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Communication Solutions

Creative communication solutions for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), traffic, parking and passenger systems to aid remote management and solve problems.

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) combine Information Technology (IT) and communication to offer online resources to road, rail, sea and air travellers & administrators. Intelligent Transport Systems include traffic, tolling, parking, passenger, information and ticketing systems. ITS improves efficiency, reduces congestion, facilitates a better informed traveller and aids enforcement of traffic regulations .

The Communication Problem for Intelligent Transport Systems

Need to bridge the gap between machine and IT worlds!

The Internet and GPRS network were designed for people (PC, PDA, mobiles) and IT systems ... not remote standalone ITS equipment, that must communicate reliably without human intervention!

Legacy equipment and back-office systems are migrating to IP networks - proprietary protocols and interfaces need to be adapted to IP?

GPRS & the Internet prefer "client initiated" communications from each remote device - many central management systems want to poll e.g. SNMP?
Alarms raised by equipment are often not easy to support by polling systems since dedicated infrastructure is required.
IT/enterprise integration is often limited, where managing field assets remains standalone and seperate to IT business systems.

Scalable Communication Systems Solutions for Intelligent Transport Systems

Comtech's ITS asset communication solutions are designed to complement and enhance ITS equipment rapidly and bridge the gap between machine and IT worlds!

Phase 1 - Communications hardware gives remote access to ITS assets

Comtech's eRouter products enable GPRS remote access to Ethernet-based ITS assets; to transport IP-based protocols e.g. SNMP. Also available with serial and I/O equipment interfaces in box and module forms. Equipment protocols can be integrated for subsequent web-based remote monitoring, datalogging & alarming.

Phase 2 - Management software offers standalone ITS asset monitoring

Remote monitoring and content delivery applications that manage remote ITS equipment centrally via the Internet. Primarily provides robust communications and offers alarm processing, notification, online reporting and administration of users & Intelligent Transport Systems equipment.

Phase 3 - Enterprise software integration brings ITS asset data into the IT world

Comtech's µWEAVE ITS asset software interfaces and automatically delivers ITS equipment data directly to 3rd party enterprise ITS systems. This makes it easy to integrate "machine data" with IT systems. Through our partnership approach, we can also offer enterpise business process systems.