DHES

We've adapted DHPOS for use in a bus! (as a part of a project for one of our clients).

pics to follow

What would you use it for in a bus? Bus Fares?

lol good question! But i dont really think this belongs here maybe dale can move it to the main DHPOS catagory?

Anyway Cool Also IBMguy When Will You Have The Pics Of The Supermarket With The DHPOS On WinCor Nex... Something Systems?

Maybe the bus is not being used as a bus. Maybe something like a bookmobile?

he he he lol beets me!

Topic relocated.

if i was doing something like this i would use a laptop stored away somewhere cause the hard drives can handle bumps better than the rest as contuines

Keyboard/Mouse: customizable pos with mouse built in
Cashdraw:"POS Pop up CASH DRAWER for narrow spaces inc 2 keys" - Click Here for link
Screen - Lcd because they use less power and take less room

-Peachey

they have these devices on the local school buses near where i live


Source: Click Here

In NYC we use cubic fareboxes ( http://cubic.com/cts/fareboxes.htm )

I was thinking about how this might be possible....

Some quick but relevant information about my thoughts...

The cubic farebox has a coin acceptor thing (for lack of a better term ) that takes a large group of coins at once and adds them up based on their deminsions -- The amount inserted is displayed to the driver and passenger...When the fare is paidi n full ( $2 for an adult) it makes a certain BEEP tone teeling the driver the passenger paid anadult fair. We also use Mag Strip pepaid cards -- when we dip it it deducts 1 fare and makes the full fare BEEP. When a Senior boards that would like to pay cash they insert their $1 1/2 fare the driver press a button and it makes a different BEEP. Now seniors also have different mag strip cards that only deduct $1 for their fare and makes a senior BEEP.

<takes breasth>

Now heres how I think this can be done with a few modifications to Dales POS.

If you were able to use one of the coin thingys I mentioned earlier this wouldent be too hard. (It would take alot of coding ut it would seem simple to a professional)

If the driver had a touch screen with the following options:

Full Fare
Reduced Fare

Each button would be linked to a stock #and would checkout right after being touched so it could send the total to the Pole display that the passenger would read.

They would then put their fare into the coin thingy which using an APRINT like program -- would count the amount inserted display this to the driver and could cause POS to BEEP if your heart so desired....

Mag strip cards would just have to deduct the fare (im sure this must be really hard to set up)

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Sorry for my rant but I hope you find this useful as I am on vacation in the middle of knowhere and had nothing better to do

The pourpose of this is not to say that this is easy but to show that POS could be used for a Fare collection software.



Mike

The system consists of an SFF (small form factor) base unit, encased in a metal box under the drivers seat.

There is a keyboard with specially programmed keys and a customer display, along with thermal printer.

Everytime the driver pushes a specific key on the keyboard, a command like the one below will be sent to dhpos:

(Driver hits location from/to key):
LOCATIONONETWO > ONE > AMOUNT > ENTER > CASH > AMOUNT > TEND

So no display required! The customer display says LOCATION ONE to LOCATION TWO and the fare price.

The cash tray is manually operated.

The base unit has a battery which must be recharged (plugged into any powerpoint) after 10 hours of use.

The IBM Guy,

So where is the photo of this?

Good point, I've not yet taken one but the other photos you requested are almost ready, uploading the last few.

The IBM Guy,

I'm still not seeing those photos.

tommrow

I guess the old saying is true.....tomorrow never comes.