EMT Malaga begins the installation of a new technology system on board

Payment by bank card, Advanced video surveillance systems and protection and multimedia content on board buses are some of the measures of the project, expanded after the pandemic, which is being carried out by the ETE formed by Etra and Iecisa as the project's recipients.

The Malaga Transport Company (Emt) project for the new technology system embarked on its buses has begun, of which the UTE formed by the companies was awarded last year Etra E Iecisa for the renewal of the entire operating aid system for an amount of 3,9 millions of euros.

The project, presented by the mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, and the Councillor for Mobility and the Councillor for Innovation and Urban Digitization, José del Río and Susana Carillo, Respectively, has been established in several phases. The first of these, already underway, focuses on installing the new validation machines, deployment is scheduled to last until September.

The integration and development work that is being carried out internally allows the start of the progressive installation of the new validators on board, faster, and where you can use all current cards and titles (monthly subscription, annual, young, retiree, Pmr, Consortium Card, UMA Card, Etc.).

At the same time, from emT's systems department, programs are being developed to launch new features so that users can pay on these machines by bank card, validate QR codes and reload cards on board.

In this way, it is expected that before the end of the year, any of the EMT lines can be accessed by validating with the bank card, payment method that has been increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, to which I added the recharge aboard the bus.

Second stage: new system of farm support

in parallel, EMT technicians will continue to deploy a new central operating aid system, that will offer more flexibility when it comes to line control, bus position, Frequencies, Etc.

Other advantages highlighted from the point of view of exploitation are the Canbus monitoring system, for the detection and reporting of breakdowns and registration of technical parameters of the fleet, with real-time monitoring possibilities; the Efficient Driving Aid System and its impact on care in the environment, integration with semaphural prioritization systems.

Third stage: video surveillance system

With the evolution of video surveillance systems, EMT buses have progressively incorporated different versions, both on-board cameras and VCRs, as has been analyzed since its origin in Digital Security.

The new central unit envisaged in this project will be responsible for homogenizing all previous camera installations, making it safer, easy and accessible delivery of recordings from these devices on board buses.

Fourth stage: information systems to the user
The current screens that the EMT is implementing inside the buses currently only have communication with the control center when the bus is in the garages.

With the new system, the control center will be able to send real-time images to any bus that is driving through the city streets, because it integrates the information to the traveler inside the vehicle, at stops, on the web and in the app. This central system relies on cloud services to facilitate in real time the numerous requests for information provided by EMT through its communication channels.

Among other possible actions you can send an emergency message to all the screens of the fleet while the buses are running (civil protection) or broadcast multimedia content and interaction between users and screens, Contests, entertainment, Etc.

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