PSPRT: a case of pervasive system for public road transport

Abstract

We describe a case of pervasive system which is working in a public road transport company of passengers, the description is based on the main elements of ubiquitous system architecture; these are: pervasive devices, the pervasive network and the system middleware. From the point of view of the pervasive devices used, the more important elements is the onboard system installed in the fleet vehicles, it is an embedded computer that is able to achieve all the needed functionalities integrating all the onboard elements (sensors, location devices, payment devices and communications devices) and handling several communications infrastructures in a suitable way by the system middleware it permit to the transport corporation use a quality information of its productions operation executed by the vehicles fleet.