Smart Bus

As a growing urban population and increasing citizen demand for better living quality, smart city has become the global trend, which combines telecommunication technologies and IoT( Internet of Things) to manage a cities’ asset. One of the essential ingredients for urban development is public transportation, and smart bus, which provides customers with a variety of value-added features including automated stop announcements, vehicle monitoring, and GPS location services, has been increasingly adopted by cities around the world to ensure passengers’ safety and comfort.

The fatal terror attack has risen dramatically over the past few years that homeland security has become the most critical issue worldwide. Havaş Shuttle, a Turkey-based bus company under the ownership of Turkish Airlines Inc, participated in a smart city solution project with a Turkish Information and Communication company to track the real-time bus passengers and drivers’ condition with 6 IP-Cameras installed in shuttle buses.

Through the smart bus monitoring App developed by the information & Communication company, Havaş Shuttle can check the real-time status of each bus effortlessly. To ensure the quality of live video streaming, Havaş Shuttle was looking for a LTE solution that can provide reliable and consistent internet connectivity in moving vehicles.

Seamless video streaming needs high-bandwidth to support simultaneous data transmission. Billion provides BiPAC 4500NZ, the 4G LTE SIM Embedded Wireless-N VPN Auto Failover and Firewall Router, to be installed on each shuttle bus. Integrating with the latest 4G/LTE technology, BiPAC 4500NZ enables a reliable and robust data transmission which transfers the real-time video back to Havaş Shuttle central console without interruption. Therefore, even though the video was damaged or destroyed by severe accidents, the key console of the bus company can still have the backup file as the basis for future investigation.

Supporting robust VPN including IPSec/PPTP/L2TP/GRE, BiPAC 4500NZ allows users to establish encryption tunnels that data will be protected while being transmitted between shuttle buses and control center over the public internet.