12-24-2023, 07:02 PM
(12-23-2023, 10:07 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(12-23-2023, 09:31 PM)Bytor Wrote: When a bus gets back to the barn at the end of the day, the mechanic giving it the once over sets the farebox to a WiFi AP at the barn. At that point in time it uploads a record of all transactions it did, and downloads a bundle of updates, such as you adding funds to your daughter's card.
Manually? Can’t it just connect once it receives the WiFi signal? For that matter, couldn’t they install their WiFi network at a few major transfer points and terminals and have most buses pick up updates sooner than end-of-day?
Potentially, yes. However, It depends on the hardware. These aren't exactly AMD Threadrippers with 64 cores and a terabyte of RAM. Heck, they aren't even my 7 year old Xeon E5-2620 v4 with 160GB RAM.
They'll probably be late '00s-era, early '10s chips, toughened for the industrial world, with 1 GB RAM, running Windows CE 7 (or whatever the proper name for it is these days). And it likely takes them an hour to download and apply all updates due to limited memory and local storage space for processing. So even with WiFi APs outside the barns, they wouldn't be able to update very much in a 5-10 minute stay at a place like Ainslie, or UW station. And few stays at timepoints are that long.