Solution for Indian Smart Bus Card

Background
Public transportation in India develops fast. Thousands of passengers commute by bus daily. This large population is becoming more and more a heavy burden to the bus company, if the traditional manual way to check the ticket is not changed. Freeloader is also a problem that have caused a considerable economic loss to the company.
 
Challenges

• Manual way to check the ticket or have the bus card tag is a heavy workload to the bus conductor, and it cannot prevent ticket evading.

• The bus company cannot supervise the bus in real time.

• There is not an efficient system to supervise the conductor.

 
Solutions
Chainway C4050 mobile terminal which uses RFID technology to recognize identity easily achieves intelligent card reading, bus route supervision and bus conductor workload management, hence a better service is enjoyed by the passengers.
 
Application Details
 
Bus Card Reading
The conductor uses Chainway C4050 to read the bus card or ticket without any need of recording manually or approaching to the passenger. When a passenger wants to buy a ticket after the boarding time, the operation also can be finished on the handheld.
 
Bus Route Supervision
With the help of GPS on C4050, the administration center can be informed with the latest bus location.
 
Conductor Management
Fare collection by the conductor at the end of the journey might challenge the driver's memory. To avoid the manpower mistake, C4050 intelligently calculates the ticket fare and collects it no matter in section fare mode or in full fare mode.
 
Data Recording
At the end of the working hour, the driver can upload the daily fare collection data on the handheld via internet to the data center. The operational efficiency of the bus company is raised.
 
Effects

• Passengers are more satisfied with the service of the bus company, since the working efficiency of ticket checking is improved and more convenience is brought to all.

• The bus company enhances the management of the bus and of the bus conductor. Any errors caused by manpower are avoided.

• Drivers do not have to send the fare collection records personally to the data center.

• With C4050, under the Wi-Fi environment, data record can be passed online.

 
PDA Configuration
P/N: C4050
Functions: HF RFID, 3G (WCDMA), GPS, Camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi