Smart Card & Turnstile Technology

Plexitech offers complete Smart Card solutions for transit companies. The Smart Card technology allows an automatic fare collection, in which cash is prepaid to get a card. The card is held in front of a reader on the bus that deducts the fare amount from the "smart card".

A smart card is embedded with either a microprocessor and a memory chip or only a memory chip with non-programmable logic. The microprocessor card can add, delete, and otherwise manipulate information on the card. The same size as a credit card, it has gold contacts that allow other devices to communicate with the card. It can contain more data than a magnetic strip and can be programmed to reveal only the relevant information. For example, it could tell a device in a store that there is sufficient balance in an account to pay for a transaction without revealing the balance amount. Encryption techniques secure the data, and the processor allows it to be programmed for different applications.

Plexitech has integrated turnstile outputs with smart card readers to eliminate the need for checking by bus conductors and to reduce manual fare collection errors.

Features

Buses fitted with our turnstiles and smart card readers resolve a lot of problems in the existing systems - lineups, lost tickets, expired tickets, not enough change in the pocket, hustle when trying to pay to the driver, get change back, move forward, etc. A solution to most of the above problems is a ticket that passengers can use many times, re-charge it with a selected value when needed, and just re-use it again and again.


Benefits of the Smart Card Turnstile Technology

• Smart cards are small, they fit everybody's pocket.
• Smart cards are very secured, can't be read, copied, manipulated with, counterfeited, duplicated.
• Smart card protect privacy where needed.
• Smart cards are re-writable and can be recharged thousands of times.
• Smart card can contain digital log with location, date, time, person's stamp to record every transaction.
• Smart card can contain money value in electronic form, kind of small system.
• Smart card can contain weekly pass, monthly pass or simply ticket that expires by certain date.
• Smart card fare system eliminates cash from the payment systems.
• Smart card fare systems remove burden of handling cash by drivers. It reduces crime.

Scheduling Software

We have a user friendly web based interface to manage your scheduling data and this data can be exported to any format requested.

• Fully functional Trip Planner
• Display schedules cleanly and accurately on your web site
• Make your schedules available to mobile devices
• Update your schedules quickly through a user-friendly web interface
• Provide your users with more useful information about routes and stops in your system
• Transit riders can plan a trip with exceptional ease and simplicity
• Trip results include required fare and total travel time, so transit riders are more well-informed of their journey
• Community integration allows travelers to plan trips to businesses, landmarks and other locations in your city
• Targeted advertising is a great way to increase revenue for your transit organization
• Collect valuable statistics that will help you better serve your customers

• Our new mapping module allows you to route your trips. This will allow you to optimize the route and will then provide you with turn by turn directions for your drivers.
• You can also map your riders’ pickup and drop off locations in the case that you are not familiar with the address or would like to see where the trip runs in relation to other routes you have scheduled.

• A wide variety of statistical, demographic, rider, vehicle, driver, reservation history, vehicle utilization, on-time performance and operational reports are contained within the software. All reports can be generated by date or range of dates then reviewed on screen prior to printing. Additionally, we allow the data in all of our reports to be automatically exported to Microsoft Excel, Word, and 4 other file formats.