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Crew Management System
Apr 11th
CMS manages the attendance and working of the close to one lakh drivers and guards of the Indian Railways. CMS plays a very important role in issues such as timely running of trains, safety and security of passengers and in controlling overall working expenditure of Railways. It is indeed a mammoth task.
Thinvent has been deeply associated with the CMS project since its inception, and has provided the following technology solutions:
- A rugged and hassle-free thin client platform to help CMS reach its target audience.
- Kiosks that allow computer-illiterate drivers to sign-on for duty and receive their duty roster.
- Desktops that include the latest office productivity software, bundled with the OS image.
- Centralised monitoring and management, that allows a single operator in Delhi to manage all the 1,500+ CMS clients with ease.
- Biometric authentication on the kiosks, which provides quick authentication of the 1,00,000+ users.
- Integration and automation of breath alcohol meters, which checks drivers for alcohol abuse before and after duty.
- Replication of the entire J2EE stack on the client side, and constant synchronisation of the database, permitting the kiosks and desktops to work even when connectivity is lost.
- Server load balancing and failover.
- SMS transmission and receipt using GSM modem and SMSC gateway.
Our partners in this project include:
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| VXL Instruments | HP |
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| Vayam Technologies | Spanco Telesystems |
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| TCIL | ITI |
Unified Ticketing Client
Jul 31st
The Indian Railways sells an average of a million reserved and 16 million unreserved tickets every day. Ticketing revenue is expected to rise from Rs. 15,080 crores in 2005-2006 to Rs. 25,000 crores in 2009-2010.
We are helping the Railways migrate from dumb terminal based centralised ticketing to a modern distributed system. Our embedded ticketing clients operate even in the absence of reliable network connectivity, permitting ticketing in far flung D and E class stations. Please download the UTC Case Study to know more about the UTC product.
View of a Railway Reservation Counter
Some of the salient features of our ticketing product are:
- An ISCII library that provides rapid printing of Hindi and other Indian languages on dot matrix and thermal printers.
- Reverse engineering and exact reimplementation of the legacy PRS emulation system under Linux, permitting migration of PRS to the new system with zero code change.
- Replication of the UTS and PRS terminal interfaces under Linux, permitting operators to use the new system without any learning curve.
- Load balancing, failover, disconnected operation, automatic synchronisation of the database on network recovery, remote management and monitoring, and automated startup.
Our partners in this project are:
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| Center for Railway Information Systems |
VXL Instruments Ltd. | HP |
Indian Railways
Jul 31st
Thinvent is providing IT products and solutions to the Indian Railways, for numerous projects of national importance. These projects are being carried out by the Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), a project oriented organisation under the Ministry of Railways, engaged in the development of major computer systems for the Indian Railways.
Thinvent is participating in the following projects with CRIS:
- Crew Management System
- Unreserved Ticketing System
- Automatic Ticket Vending Machine
- Passenger Reservation System
- Parcel Management System
- Locomotive Management System
Carinov
Jul 31st
Carinov Networks creates digital signage products for the retail, corporate and transport sectors. Thinvent created a Linux based system within which they could run their digital signage software. The thin clients we provided were directly interfaced to large LCD displays working in a rotated orientation. Where broadband networks were not available for Carinov to update their video content, we provided an automated pen drive based system for content and software updates.
The end customer in this project was Laqshya Media. We partnered with kSense Technology in this project. The hardware was sourced from VXL Instruments.
