Aftek Transportation Framework (ATF)

Aftek Transportation Framework (ATF) offers highly customizable and cost effective IT services for public transportation and logistics sector. Offered as part of Integrated Transport Solutions (ITS), ATF is primarily advantageous for transport organizations and independent fleet operators who are willing to hire expertise for design, development, installation, integration, testing and support for various transport related services.

Integrated Transport Solutions (ITS):

Integrated Transport Solutions offer seamless integration of various IT services and devices aiding transport infrastructure on the whole, so as to enable improved operations and easy management.

These solutions are designed to manage vehicles, routes and loads to improve safety while also reducing transportation time, fuel consumption and vehicle wear and tear. Thus ITS helps in boosting revenue generation process and in turn profitability. Another goal of implementing ITS is to ensure quick, affordable, comfortable and reliable transportation means for both passengers and freight.

The Need

There is a growing interest amongst independent road transport organizations and fleet operators to undertake contract work for ITS deployment. However, virtually no one is fully equipped to offer all the necessary ITS related expertise in-house. Thus, they rely on IT service providers to outsource their work.

The basic requirement from ITS components is that:

• they should be customizable
• they should operate in a fully integrated manner
• they must provide external interfaces to other systems

Furthermore, the component deployment is required to be flexible so as to allow expansion over a period of time, accommodating increase in the number of vehicles or operators. It is also expected to allow addition of enhanced or improved services down the line.

This makes the task of transport organizations increasingly tedious and time consuming as various IT services are scattered across different providers, which may lead to potential incompatibilities and can pose problems with integration and interfacing between individual ITS components.

In such cases, outsourcing IT services to a single and experienced IT firm makes practical sense, as it accelerates the customization, integration and scalability task, ensuring full interoperability. It also results in tremendous time and cost saving.

Solution

Aftek Ltd with its more than 20 years of proven expertise in the field of Hardware, BSP, Embedded solutions and more, now offers various IT transportation services under a complete transportation framework, known as Aftek Transportation Framework (ATF).

Aftek has experience in building end-to-end public bus transportation management and bus tracking solutions to enable seamless exchange of information between all the concerned business entities. We are also actively working on the development of unique technologies based on GPS / GPRS / Wi-Fi, with a belief that right information at the right time helps in making right decisions!

Aftek has recently launched a Driver Console Unit, also knows as Vehicle Mounted Terminal (VMT), to be used in public transport vehicles. With the help of VMT, a driver can broadcast useful information such as bus timings and make passenger announcements. It works well even as an entertainment and revenue generating model, with its ability to broadcast multimedia advertisements, movies, playing songs and so on.

With ATF, we now aim to offer various IT services and devices for the complete ITS deployment. Our services are well integrated with the in-house developed Electronic Ticketing Machine (ETM) and Vehicle Tracking System (VTS) and we are also specialized in seamless integration with third party devices. Additionally, ATF offers centralized or back-end system for reporting and processing of revenues and other forms of data. Lastly, it covers software support and operations services.

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