Smart public transportation is one step towards the Smart City. It adds an extra brick to citizens’ daily quality of life:
“We are proud to be involved alongside recognized public transportation experts like QOS Telecom in projects dedicated to the city and common spaces, in order to offer users greater convenience. Our multi-network positioning, our ability to support and customize our offers, allows us to respond to a wide variety of use cases in terms of connected cities,” explains Bernardo Cabrera, Director of the Objenious BU.
The services offered by this unique and shared QOS Telecom offer currently enable urban and interurban transportation networks to provide free Wi-Fi and make buses or other public vehicles 2.0 communicative by connecting equipment for business needs, thanks to embedded 4G/Wi-Fi routers.
Several new services are thus put in place:
- Free internet access for users throughout their journey, meaning more than 8 million users are likely to use a public Wi-Fi hotspot operated by QOS Telecom (Smart-territory and transport). The WaaS (Wifi as a Service) architecture requires little onboard equipment, as all system intelligence is centralized in a network hosted in a data center
- A multi-service platform that allows interfacing of business applications by pooling onboard infrastructure (router, SIM cards, antennas to install on the roof of the vehicle). Applications intended for pooling include:
- A ticketing service for users to purchase and validate their tickets more easily
- A SAEIV (Operating and Passenger Information System) system to connect information panels and have real-time information on travel time or traffic
- An onboard video protection system in vehicles (coaches and buses) to ensure safety throughout the journey and provide real-time access to images when necessary.
- The possibility of having a new communication medium by broadcasting content on the captive portal
For travelers, public Wi-Fi will allow them to benefit from better connectivity during their travels than that available via their 3G/4G networks, thanks to antennas installed on the roofs of vehicles. This will contribute to reducing their consumption of mobile 3G/4G data, often greedy due to the use of social networks or streaming in mobility, but it will also allow SIM-free tablets to remain connected and foreign visitors in France not to use their 3G/4G package in “Roaming.”
“We are delighted with this collaboration, which has allowed our customers to offer better services to users for several years,” explains Jean Luc VOLCOVICI, General Manager of QOS Telecom. “Our choice naturally turned to Bouygues Telecom, a historic player in the 4G market, via Objenious, offering cutting-edge expertise and an efficient economic model for the deployment of our solutions.”
QOS Telecom’s goal is to rationalize the number of equipment offering connectivity by adopting “multi-services” platforms thanks to Objenious’ offer, 100% compliant with current legislation.
“We are seeing a growing interest among urban transportation networks for IoT technologies. These new use cases are a perfect example of the growth of the Smart City, which integrates on different fronts, including mobility, by placing the user at the center of its concerns,” explains Bernardo Cabrera, Director of the Objenious BU.
Thanks to the GetWay platform and Objenious experts, QOS Telecom benefits from support in the management of its fleet and service.