Now running on the latest and more affordable Tablet PC

And the new Tait 8010 high-speed data radio

 

 

A unique, six times faster mobile data system has evolved using GMSK at 7200 Baud over PMR radio.

Inheriting the basic functionality from the phased out Halda MDS12 data heads (FSK at 1200 Baud).

Using a large colour touch screen and mobile PCs are running Windows XP.

Program updates can be carried out inserting a USB memory stick.

 

Text Box: Customer Call Back, automatic GPS summer/winter time updates, speed limit warnings, Navigator Find-It button for Job-Fix co-ordinates with estimated fare & distance info, Map navigation voice prompts, cash/card/account job calculations before receipt printout, ETA after job accept, credit card authorisation with card accept & fee messages, Automatic GPS plotting using geofencing and finding closest car for the job, Calendar controlled taximeter counting road pulses and waiting time plus extras, New tariff updates can use pre-loaded taximeter tariffs, Bidding for jobs, Show all active cars on map in office including logging and tracking of cars, Panic on data sends position to base every 8 seconds, then dispatch can Eavesdrop on car with PTT keyed up automatically on voice in-between times, Top Ten Statistics for areas plotted by cars and for highest job count in zones, New stack updates and statuses for more complex data communication, Jobs and messages are spoken to the driver using natural Text-To-Speech technology, Mapping is to street level, showing house numbers and it allows for UK postcode, and a combination of county, town & street name searches… Plus more are being planned… A second remote radio data base station to increase data coverage to the south, with automatic channel selection from the taxi’s GPS position. Plus a second remote voice base station for the booking clerks to contact their cars…

Over the past few month mobile routines have been changed and fine-tuned.

More features have been added to complement the functionality of the new data system.

 

The following screen shots have been taken from a live and working system:

 

 Dean Taxis in Gateshead, UK

 Over 235 cars

 

 

 

 

 

Driver speaking with dispatch at base over local PMR radio channel

Speaker volume control plus a 2-minute timer to go back to data mode

 

Searching for jobs, the driver may bid for one in a nearby zone or area

 

Driver plotted (blue) and bid for job (orange), if the BID is unsuccessful

then he will stay ranked up in the area plotted

 

Job on offer alerts driver and prompts to either accept/reject it, or time out after 10 seconds

 

Accepting a job prompts the driver to give the estimated time of arrival

 

After a job has been accepted the pickup co-ordinates are passed to the car.

 The FIND IT Navigator can calculate both the fastest or shortest route and guide

 the driver along the highlighted path to the pick up point, using voice prompts

 

Up to 25 Global and Normal messages each…

 

Plus 50 Jobs are time stamped and stored for the driver to read at any time.

Natural Text-To-Speech voices speak the new message to the driver as it arrives.

Download and listen to the above job details as a WAV file (553kB)

 

Calendar controlled taximeter counting road pulses and waiting time plus EXTRAS.

Date/time are automatically updated to summer/winter time from GPS on power up.

This ensures correct selection of the taximeter tariff when going HIRED.

Now with analogue Waiting Time Clock icon and rounded light indicators.

                        

Print or clear taximeter totals at the end of a shift

 

                                                      

Cash, credit card & account job calculations are made before the receipt printouts

 

 

Use the following links for more details on:

 

For more information about mobile terminals or PMR radio,

Booking & dispatch programs and associated PC hardware in CAB-5000 visit: www.cab5000.com

 

Mobile PC’s and colour touch screens built for the taxi environment visit: mobile-data.microbus.com

Download the mobile M-PC computer specification sheet as PDF file (63kB)

 

Or hear it directly from the ’horses mouth’ please visit and call: www.deantaxis.co.uk

Download their latest company profile as PDF file (153kB), courtesy of

Private Hire and Taxi Monthly magazine

 

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