<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Az, I'm just loggin into your 'bus' no, and disabling the breaking system.<br><br>Laters,<br>Lee<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 7/3/09, azmodie <i><azmodie@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: azmodie <azmodie@gmail.com><br>Subject: [dundee] mobile internet access on the busses.<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Saturday, 7 March, 2009, 9:38 AM<br><br><pre>Hi all, I'm sending this email from the x54 stagecoach bus dundee -<br>edinburgh . looks like stagecoach are adding 38 buses within the fife<br>area commuter services with equipped with wifi<br><br>http://www.stagecoachbus.com/news_4644.html<br><br>"While offering free Wi-Fi connectivity to passengers is a value-added<br>service that is going to distinguish a
public transit operator from<br>its competition, that's not the main selling point for the operators,"<br>said Baker, CEO of UK-based Moovera Networks, whose company makes<br>gateway devices that deliver broadband connectivity to public<br>transport companies worldwide. "The primary driver is not Wi-Fi for<br>passengers, but Internet connectivity for the vehicle."<br><br>Baker says that there are three reasons why public transportation<br>companies want Internet connectivity in the vehicles.<br><br>"One is passenger Wi-Fi, so they can deliver a service to the<br>passengers that sets them apart from its competition," he said.<br>"Transport operators' key focus in life is to get backsides on seats,<br>no matter how they do it."<br><br>The second driver is delivering a vehicle area network (VAN) to allow<br>connectivity between all of the vehicle's devices and applications.<br><br>"For example, the vehicle may have a telematics system, which
measures<br>the speed that the driver is going, fuel conditions, braking<br>conditions, and the pitch of the vehicle as it moves," Baker said.<br>"That information is stored locally on a disk-based device in the<br>vehicle. Our gateway allows that telematic information to be accessed<br>remotely so that vehicle operators can have a complete overview of<br>their fleets in real-time as their vehicles move around all over the<br>place."<br><br><br>Note the moovera gateways are connected to vodaphone gsm network @<br>rate of 1.7mb upgrading to faster speeds in near future.<br><br><br>azmodie<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>