WARRINGTON, England, October 19 /PRNewswire/ --
- Portable Data Terminals Now Offer Required High-Performance When Reading Any Kind of Ticket
Hand Held Products, the global leader in image-based data collectionsolutions, and CASIO Europe, have teamed up to provide German Rail with a newimaging-based solution for processing e-tickets. German Rail, Europe'slargest railway, has implemented a new ticket and mobile ticket system usingCasio's IT-3000 mobile computer powered by Adaptus(TM) Imaging Technology5.0.
Prior to deploying this new solution, German Rail conductors were forcedto manually type in a 16-digit ticket number whenever a home-printed ticket(or e-ticket) was presented. Recently, the railway experienced exponentialgrowth in e-ticketing, and currently processes over 50,000 e-tickets per day.
More than 12,000 CASIO IT-3000's are being delivered via Systemtechnik, aGerman company that helped develop the product. The project was won after anEU-wide public tender. A result of close cooperation between CASIO Europe andSiemens VDO, the new IT-3000's will handle the mobile ticket sales as well asprovide an easy way to read and validate train tickets. Systemtechnik'sbuilt-in SmartCard technology enables the conductors to receive securepayment via credit cards, as well as quickly and easily read and validate themany different ticket varieties, including e-tickets, of its many thousandsof daily passengers.
"We required a solution that enabled our conductors to sell and printtickets on the train, receive secure payments, and quickly read and validatetrain tickets with an Aztec barcode - home printed and at a later stage froman electronic display. This required not only an update to our existinghardware, but also an update to the technology behind the e-tickets we offerto our customers," said Patrick Neehuis, project manager of 'Mobile Terminal2' at German Rail.
"Hand Held Products was an integral partner in providing German Rail witha solution optimized for their requirements," said Thomas Uppenkamp, salesmanager of CASIO's Industrial Solutions Division. "Their expertise inapplying imaging technology to data collection applications combined with ourbest-in-class mobile computing terminal enabled us to provide German Railwith a market-leading solution."
"German Rail is an excellent example of an enterprise that is in tunewith the demands of its customers - they have revolutionized their passengerticketing process in order to give the customer the best experiencepossible," said Roel Vreeburg, senior vice president international sales,marketing and services for Europe & Asia at Hand Held Products. "Togetherwith CASIO, we provided a solution that allows German Rail meet the demandsof the market today, and to adapt to future applications including readingmobile ticket bar codes from mobile phone or PDA displays."
About Hand Held Products
Hand Held Products is the world's leading provider of image-based datacollection solutions for mobile, wireless and transaction processingapplications - such as bar code scanners, mobile computers and transactionterminals.
The company has a worldwide network of partners, and an extensive clientbase across many different markets. Based in the US, its Europeanheadquarters are in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
About CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. is one of the world's leading manufacturers ofconsumer electronics products and business equipment solutions. Since itsestablishment in 1957, CASIO has strived to realize its corporate creed of"creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative andimaginative products. Today, CASIO's offerings include timepieces, digitalcameras, cellular phones, electronic dictionaries, calculators, musicalinstruments, system equipment, and electronic components such as LCDs.
News and product information from CASIO is available at http://world.casio.com/
For more information, please visit the website: www.mobileticketing.com or www.handheld.com.
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