07-26-2019, 07:54 AM
(07-26-2019, 04:39 AM)trainspotter139 Wrote:(07-25-2019, 06:31 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's also a ridiculous price to pay for a system like this.
The TVMs are insane. They're doing less work than my smart phone, yet somehow they're getting hot enough to ruin the thermal paper. There's giant racks of equipment at each station...doing what?
This shouldn't have cost 11 million dollars...
I'm no expert on construction or building roads, or building trains, but this stuff *IS* my domain, and it's ridiculous. And it isn't a government problem either.
https://rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca...emEFMS.pdf
258 Fareboxes, 32 TVMs, 38 PFVs, portable reader devices for fare inspectors, backend server systems, access points for data uploading to bus fareboxes, PCI-DSS compliant network segmentation of systems at all garages, TVM and customer service locations and anything else that such a system requires. It's not cheap. It's labour-intensive and requires a lot more work that very few get to actually see. The vendors that bid all had modular systems that could be assembled and programmed into a complete system.
I am aware of the scope of the system.