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SIDERA AFC

SICE is present on the international market of Sales and Validation Solutions for public transport. SICE is one of the most reliable partners in the industry both for its ability to adapt to each market and to its customers.

SIDERA AFC

What is SIDERA AFC?

The SIDERA AFC software platform offers a comprehensive solution for the centralised management of a ticket sales and validation system. It obtains information on the status and availability of all equipment and infrastructure to optimise maintenance and manages the configuration and parameterisation of the fare collection system

Why SIDERA AFC?

Because SIDERA AFC adapts to the needs of the operation of a transport ticket sales and collection system by incorporating the latest validation technologies and improving the monitoring of the operation of the sales and validation system (AFC). SIDERA AFC facilitates the distribution and collection of versions and tables and of sales and validation information and handles the simple exchange of information between the different levels and transport consortia

The differential value of SIDERA AFC

SIDERA AFC has the most advanced technology, with a modular and highly scalable architecture. It is agnostic to the platform that supports it and can be either cloud or on-premise. It is a highly configurable platform and can be deployed quickly and efficiently in a redundant and highly available configuration.

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Sales and Validation for buses

SIDERA AFC is a tool that helps to effectively manage the on-board sales and on-board sales and validation of a bus fleet. It is an integrated vending and validation system, consisting of a vending desk and validators, which communicate with the control centre via an on-board router. This solution provides an efficient payment and validation process for passengers, as well as allowing centralised monitoring and control of the operation by the control centre.

  • Sales desk: Terminal located inside the bus and operated by the driver or staff in charge. It allows ticket sales transactions to passengers boarding the bus and can display additional information obtained from the SAE.
  • Validators: installed at the bus access doors where passengers must swipe their transport card or ticket for the system to validate the journey and record entry to the bus.
  • Tickets: Titles can be contactless cards, QR codes, EMV cards or identifiers from an ABT system.
  • Centralised control: The control centre has real-time access to data collected on every bus in the fleet. This allows for monitoring the operation of all vehicles, verifying schedule adherence, managing revenue collection, and performing analysis and reporting to improve efficiency and service quality.

Metro-rail sales and validation

SIDERA AFC is a tool that helps to effectively manage the sale and validation of a Metro or the sale and validation of a Metro or railway line. It is an integrated sales and validation system, composed of ticket offices, self-sale machines and validation steps. This solution provides a fast and efficient payment and validation process to manage high passenger traffic, as well as allowing centralised monitoring and control of the operation by the control centre.

  • TVMs: vending machines that offer an agile, flexible and secure shopping experience for public transport users. They offer different ticket technologies and support a variety of payment methods, such as coins, banknotes and EMV credit cards.
  • Concourses: access barriers where passengers must swipe their transport card or ticket for the system to validate the journey and register entry.
  • Ticketing: Titles can be contactless cards, QR codes, EMV cards or identifiers from an ABT system.
  • Centralised control: The control centre has real-time access to data collected on the line. It allows monitoring the operation and status of all equipment. It manages collection, and performs analysis and reporting to improve efficiency and quality of service.
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Intermodalidad

Intermodality and centralised management

SICE offers public transport companies an efficient and versatile system to manage and improve the user experience in the sale and use of transport tickets in different modes of transport.

The solution for the Transport Sale and Validation System Management Centre is a modular and complete platform that centralises all the information related to the sale and cancellation of transport tickets, facilitates data consolidation, offers auditing and reporting tools, and enables fare integration and intermodality.

Different transport ticket technologies, such as smart cards, QR codes or even magnetic tickets.

Providing flexibility for users to make payments according to their preferences and needs

Their intuitive and user-friendly interface simplifies the sales process and speeds up transactions.

Both automated machines and manned points of sale ensure that all passengers, including people with disabilities, can access and use the services without difficulty.

That facilitates interaction with simple instructions and clear options.

Designed to withstand daily use and ensure the integrity of the money collected, avoiding possible incidents and guaranteeing the protection of the revenue generated.

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Platform already tested in virtualised environments. Allows configuration through redundant configuration and high availability, both in ‘on-premise’ and ‘cloud’ environments (Azure, AWS, Oracle, etc).

SIDERA AFC complies with cybersecurity requirements in a satisfactory manner and includes access policies and controls, authorisation and authentication procedures or policies to facilitate change management, activity and audit logs to support forensic investigations into security breaches. In this way, it complies with the regulations that set the foundation for Defence in Depth, thus extending security from the equipment manufacturers to the operators.

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