Transport
Our solutions provide real-time, precise, reliable location of vehicles, enabling efficient scheduling, despatch and maintenance. Ubisense systems integrate seamlessly with existing depot management systems and GPS systems. We work with a network of partners and have installed systems for some of the world’s leading transit operators in Europe and the USA.
- Ubisense solutions use active RFID, allowing two-way communication, which passive RFID does not
- Transmit 3rd party data with the customisable Ubsiense Tag Module
- Ubisense Tags and Sensors are designed as robust, rugged devices, which can withstand any weather
- Ubisense solutions offer continuous sub-metre accuracy
- Direction of vehicles in a yard or depot can be shown
- Choose from 2D or 3D tracking, with variable updates depending on speed of vehicle
- GPS integration
- The Ubisense system is easy to install and integrate
Ubisense Transit Yard solutions are currently used by a number of large bus and passenger rail companies worldwide.
Benefits by Department
Maintenance
- Mechanics and contractors can immediately locate vehicles requiring work
- Reduces vehicle shuffle time
- Integration to maintenance management ensures held vehicles are not dispatched in error
- Integration with onboard maintenance monitoring provides critical fault alerts - ensuring vehicles are swiftly moved to maintenance
Overall Operations
- Reduced time locating and moving between vehicles
- Eliminates manual mark-up sheets
- Automates yard audit process
Benefits by Department
CAD/AVL
- Reduced search time for vehicles
- Real-time electronic mark-up sheets are always up-to-date
- Clear visual display showing which vehicle are available for pullout
- Ensuring faulty vehicles are not dispatched in error
- Drivers can quickly locate correct vehicles ensuring timely pullout
- Clear visual display showing route and driver assigned to a particular vehicle
Scheduling
- Proper staging facilitates optimal, timely pullout
- Accurately recording pullout times improves performance measurement
- Automated vehicle assignment with spot level bus precision location
"Ubisense is helping us towards our goal of reducing operating costs by automatically logging the location of each bus as soon as it is parked in or around one of our garages, making it possible for dispatchers to assign buses to operators without having to manually enter the location of the bus, which is not always up-to-date.”Metro Transit in Minneapolis, Minnesota."
