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News Release from: Legic Identsystems | Subject: LEGIC Contactless Smart Card Technology
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Team on 22 October 2004
LEGIC Contactless Smart Card Technology
An NHS Trust has installed a OPKS 2000 Pay on Foot parking system from Cale BriParc at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester using the latest LEGIC contactless smart card technology.
The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust has installed a OPKS 2000 Pay on Foot parking system from Cale BriParc at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, (England) using the latest LEGIC contactless smart card technology The site has two separate single entry and exit lane car parks, with three Pay Stations which can be used by drivers from either car park on single or separate tariffs if required
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 11 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The PKS 2000 system provides St Richard's with superior tariff capability based upon high security and flexible Smart Card technology.
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The Hospital is able to charge a higher rate for very short stay users with a lower rate for visitors staying longer.
This is to deter local shoppers or other non-hospital visitors from leaving their car at the site so freeing up space for genuine hospital visitors.
The system also allows the hospital to offer certain parkers free or discounted parking by dispensing a voucher (the system also has the facility to electronically tag the cards).
The customers can then insert the voucher into the bank note reader to obtain their concession from the parking fee.
The PKS 2000 system also offers St Richard's increased speed and ease of use.
The system utilises LEGIC contactless smart card technology, a unique feature of the system.
Instead of conventional paper tickets, the LEGIC card is a sturdy ISO standard size plastic card complete with an integrated 'chip' that stores all the information required for the parking operation.
As there is no need for printing and all of the parking information is encoded into the card in a few thousandths of a second, card issue times are reduced to just half a second, speeding up traffic flow.
For season users, times are reduced still further.
Their season smart card is proximity read at the entry and exit stations, avoiding the need for card insertion or swiping, the contactless LEGIC smart cards having an almost unlimited number of read/write cycles since no mechanical contact is made with the card.
Together with the high quality printing procedures available this generally ensures in excess of five years use.
This means that operational costs are substantially reduced as there are no discarded paper tickets which is better for the environment, and it removes the hassle of the operator having to continually order and store paper tickets.
The Smart Cards used are multi-application cards, which enable the Trust to incorporate other applications onto the card such as vending, lockers, access control, time and attendance, should these features be required in the future.
Each of these applications can be achieved via a specialist supplier without compromising the other applications held on the card.
The simple mechanical construction of all units in the PKS system, with few moving parts, ensures very low maintenance costs.
The operator has low consumable costs, as the use of magnetic, punched hole or bar coded cards is not necessary.
All intelligent peripherals (entry stations, pedestrian payment stations and exit stations) operate from a common printed circuit board and each board is fitted with a microprocessor and programmed in electrically erasable PROM for its own specific function.
The peripherals are linked into the Central Unit in a 'Daisy Chain' configuration using a simple two-core cable between peripheral devices.
This 'CAN BUS' system is very noise immune allowing communications cables to be located in with other services.
All inputs are opto isolated for total protection of the circuit boards.
Capacity counting covering all entrances and exits is an integral function of the system and this is controlled from a Central Station.
Each vehicle movement is monitored on completion of a task at all entry and exit stations, thereby logging vehicles in and out of the car park.
Information on spaces available, vehicle entries and exits is held at the Central Station on computer hard disc.
Voice communication between the Central Station and all entry stations, pedestrian payment stations and exit stations operates as a separate system.
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