Technology and wireless communication converge

Mentor Engineering is proud to announce that their most recent client, the City of Fayetteville, NC, is rolling out their Public Works and Transit vehicles on the Verizon Wireless network. Mentor is implementing a comprehensive technology solution for both the City of Fayetteville’s Public Works sector, as well as their public transit service.

For Fayetteville’s Public Safety Department, which includes Police and Fire service, Mentor will be installing the Mentor BBX in their 218-vehicle fleet. Mentor BBX is a stand-alone Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and vehicle telematics collection device. BBX provides accurate vehicle tracking with its integrated GPS receiver.
BBX will capture all of this data and send it over the wireless network to Mentor Fleet™ software in the office. Fleet is a mobile field services management solution that allows office staff for the City of Fayetteville to view the current location of all their Public Safety vehicles on a real-time map, and know where they are and what they are doing at a glance.

“The combination of BBX and Mentor Fleet is a valuable addition to the City of Fayetteville’s Public Safety vehicles. With the ability to accurately track vehicle location, Fayetteville will be able to achieve greater fleet efficiency, and more importantly, quicker response times,” explains Samuel Mahumane, Project Manager for Mentor’s Systems Engineering Group.

Mentor is also providing a software solution for the City of Fayetteville’s fixed-route and paratransit systems. Fayetteville will be using the Mentor Streets® Transit software suite, which is integrated with Fayetteville’s existing Trapeze NOVUS web-enabled solution for their demand response operations.

Comprised of several integrated modules, Streets Transit is a software suite which manages all aspects of a transit agency. Using Streets, Fayetteville’s transit operations will be able to run more efficiently, keep their buses on schedule and their passengers on time, as well as improve scheduling functions with the Streets Schedule application.

In addition to Streets, Fayetteville’s transit vehicles will be visible on the side of operations that use Mentor Fleet, for enhanced visibility.

The City of Fayetteville will also be using Mentor’s XMobile Management® (XMM) software for their Mobile Device Management (MDM) needs.  Using XMM, all of Fayetteville’s Over-the-air programming (OTAP) will be done using the EVDO network from Verizon Wireless. This replaces the time-consuming and costly task of physically updating each vehicle’s device manually.