Summary of the story
| Country |
: Italy |
| Distributor |
: Nordelettronica s.r.l |
| Customer |
: The municipal police of
Bologna |
| Location |
:
The municipal town of Bologna |
| Terminal |
: IT-500M30CB Handheld Terminal |
| Business Type |
:
Public Service |
Story at
a glance
The CASIO
IT-500M30CB rugged terminal with digital camera and Bluetooth interface
integrated, and the application software from BraV running on the
terminal can capture an image of vehicle in parking and its license plate,
control the type of parking and payment, and print out notification of illegal
parking on time using a portable Bluetooth printer connected to the terminal via
Bluetooth interface. The application particularly innovates the public service
and manages the vehicle parking in a more effective way.
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"Ausiliari della sosta" who is a part of the municipal policy of Bologna is on
duty checking an illegally parked vehicle. |
The town of Bologna in Italy has adopted since
last October, a new information processing system configured with BraVLs
application program installed on the IT-500 portable terminal which satisfies
all the exigencies relating to the control of the parking. The police officers
entitled to this service, baptized "Auxiliary of the parking" and pertaining to
the municipal police force of Bologna, can control easily with an information
appeared on the screen, for example if a motorist on public highway had paid the
sum due illegal parking.cle.
This solution also provides other very special functionalities; it indeed makes
it possible to take a photograph of vehicle precisely where it parks, while
recording and certifying in an undeniable way that the vehicle illegally parks
in a place where the parking is prohibited, or beyond the time limit resulting
in penalty.
In the event of such illegal parking BraVLs software and the IT-500
terminal also make it possible to take a photograph of the vehicle license plate
of the offender. In this way, all captured undeniable evidences with the digital
camera are either recorded in the memory of the terminal or printed on real time
using the portable printer that is hung on the belt.
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IT-500 terminal with a portable Bluetooth printer hung on the belt print out a
fine against illegally parked vehicle. |
Such the
solution constitutes a significant first in Italy, even if many municipalities
currently work on similar projects or evaluate similar applications. For its
part, CASIO has a great experiment in this field and can assert many existing
installations.
"It is the end of error of illegal parking. We intend as soon as possible to
deploy the terminals for the agents who are in charge of controlling parking,
that is to say more than 150 people" said a municipal officer of Bologna. All
the municipal policemen will carry the portable terminals while they are on
duty. CASIO considers with reason the public administration an extremely
promising sector, in particular with regard to the solutions of ticketing,
control of the control or layby of the payment.
The effects are obvious and already quite real for the town of Bologna. By
adopting this system, the town of Bologna recorded, as of the first weeks, an
enormous reduction of the infringements erroneous, generally due to errors of
distraction at the time of the information of the fields and the transcription
of the serial number, which involved particularly unpleasant situations
formerly. "Moreover, before, the employees of the municipality of Bologna were
to manually transfer from enormous quantity of data in the system of management,
or to control them personally when they were read again by OCR reader" comments
on Stefano Vaccari, the system engineer who developed the BraV
application software starting from the exigencies of the émiliene city and
partner of Nordelettronica s.r.l who is an authorized CASIO distributor
in Italy. And that is only one of the many advantages of the system which in
general allows the auxiliaries parking, more effectively of supporting the work
of the municipal police officers. "The greatest benefit offered by this
solution..." summarizes Luca Tarozzi " ... it is that we do not have any problem
! The system, in its hardware and software components, is rigorously stable. The
true advantage of the system, as a whole, lies in the reduction in the erroneous
infringements, and a greater productivity". This increases in the productivity
results the speed of the system, which also comprises a greater satisfaction of
the personnel of service. Thanks to a broad acceptance on behalf of the
operators, it was possible to exploit all the possibilities rationalization
offered by this new solution. Moreover, the use of the integrated digital camera
appeared particularly advantageous.
With a construction similar to a conventional PDA but of particularly reduced
size and a thickness, extremely robust and thus intended for a professional use,
the CASIO IT-500M30CB is equipped with integrated laser scanner for
reading bar codes, Bluetooth module for wireless communication, digital camera
for capturing images. It can adapt to all the professional environments, inside
or outside, thanks to its large TFT color screen.
Model
number of the terminal
IT-500M30CB a compact
and rugged terminal with laser scanner, digital camera and Bluetooth module
integrated as standard. Click here for detailed product information.
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An external view of the CASIO IT-500
series handheld terminal
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