Agent Systems, Inc.
Agent Transaction Manager Java User Interface
Since 1985, Agent Systems has been the leader in networked fare collection systems. Today, many transit properties use Agent Transaction Manager products to monitor ticket vending and fare gate equipment in real-time and handle all aspects of electronic transactions. Since the first installations over ten years ago, hundreds of millions of dollars of credit card and ATM card payments have been made through Agent Systems-supplied systems.
In the past year we have begun development of our next generation Agent Transaction Manager user interface. Based upon technological advancements in computer hardware available to the transit property operator as well as emerging standards in software development, this substantial enhancement to our product offers improvements in the user interface and brings numerous communications and training benefits.
We have assembled a demonstration of the user interface of our updated Agent Transaction Manager product. The features which we will be demonstrating include:
The Agent Transaction Manager Graphical User Interface Example
The next generation user interface for the Agent Transaction Manager (ATM) achieves platform independence using the Java environment. The Java environment provides a simple low cost graphical user interface to a complex, powerful, full-function, UNIX-based ATM network. All the complexity of the application is hidden from the user. The same interface is available to users whether they are accessing it from an X-Window system, Windows 95, or other graphical environments that have Java support. The user will simply execute a Java-based window application, and the full monitoring and reporting capabilities of ATM are available. The user interface will appear as follows:
A map of the transit property (in this example, the BART station map) is displayed. Notice the station names appear in color. The fare collection equipment status is color-coded as described by the map legend.
The color of the station name indicates the lowest operating status of any piece of fare collection equipment located at that station. Notice Coliseum appears red, indicating an intrusion status of at least one piece of equipment at the Coliseum station. The station agent can examine any station by simply double clicking on that station's name. For example, by moving the cursor to Coliseum and double clicking, the station agent can bring up the Coliseum station as follows:
The station map is a drawing of the station floor plan. A symbol laid over each piece of equipment indicates the operating status of the equipment. Notice the station map legend indicates how each status is displayed. The color code is the same as it is on the previous transit property system map.
By moving the cursor over the red circle with an "S" (which indicates a intrusion) and double clicking, the station agent can bring up the exact piece of equipment indicating an intrusion. In this case, the piece of equipment is a TVM, and an image of a TVM appears as follows:
Note the status symbols are located over the various parts of the TVM.
By moving the cursor over the status symbol that indicates an intrusion and double clicking, the station agent can cause a text box to appear indicating the exact event that caused the intrusion status. The text box appears as follows:
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