Avail's InterfaceModule is more than just a software application, it is a business philosophy. Avail’s entire suite of products, as well as our overall approach to doing business in the transit industry, is based on non proprietary open system design. Because of this, Avail not only embraces industry standards and interoperability between vendors, but we champion these concepts to the fullest extent possible. This is the reason for our InterfaceModule.

With more than 350 years of combined experience integrating technology solutions in transit applications, Avail fully understands the importance of being able to interface to other vendors’ products. Because of this, Avail has developed our InterfaceModule, our single point of interface between our technologies and the “outside world”. The InterfaceModule is a software application that allows Avail to easily and cost effectively interface our product suite to virtually any other third party application. Through clearly defined Interface Control Documents and adherence to industry standards, Avail’s InterfaceModule enables transit properties to mix and match technologies where applicable.

Features from a Communications Prospective

The InterfaceModule “communications link”, breaks the ties that have forced transit properties to deploy end-to-end proprietary systems from a single vendor. Using Avail's InterfaceModule a property can choose to use Avail’s OmniPoint product suite for all their backend CAD/AVL needs, while choosing an off-the-shelf communications controller and mobile data terminal from another vendor. This module not only supports private conventional radio systems, trunked systems, and commercial communications providers (cellular), but it will also allow a property to mix and match communications platforms as needed.

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Features from a Backend Software Application Prospective

From a backend prospective Avail's InterfaceModule serves as the protocol translator and single point of interface whenever there is a need to tie our system to a third party product. Keeping these interfaces isolated to a single point within our overall system architecture eliminates any possible impact on other aspects of Avail’s solution. This also eliminates complexity in the design and cost of development since we only need to create a translator which “speaks the same language” as the product we are interfacing to.

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InterfaceModule-Comms Features

  • Provides data transport over multiple types of radio and wireless data networks
  • Efficiently packages and compresses data to make better use of network bandwidth
  • Provides guaranteed data communications. Data is not lost due to vehicles being out of coverage
  • Allows communications between vehicles and other ITS software applications
  • Provides a straight forward approach for interfacing Avail OmniPoint product features with other third party products such as:
    • fixed route runcutting and scheduling packages
    • paratransit CAD packages
    • accounting packages
    • maintenance packages
    • Interactive Voice Recognition Systems (IVR’s)
    • web interfaces

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Avail is committed to helping evolve the TCIP industry standards as well as championing open architecture design and interoperability between vendors in any way we can. It is because of this commitment that Avail has developed its InterfaceModule which is solely focused on providing the industry with these capabilities.
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