Application Service Providing (ASP) - Siemens Mobility

Using modern control center
technology – without having to
invest in hardware, software
and operation? Welcome to ASP!
* In traffic engineering,
the ASP principle translates to:
The provision of the full range of
traffic control center applications
without the end user having to
build, own, operate and maintain
the necessary technical control
center systems. Instead, the end
user can access the applications
from a “regular” workstation,
for instance, via a highly secure
Internet connection.
You don’t need to own a fiber optic
cable network to profit from a fast
Internet connection. The operator owns
and operates the network – and the
Internet users use it. With our
Application Service Providing (ASP) we
have now carried this simple principle*
over to road traffic control, making
advanced Sitraffic® Scala center
technology available to the end user.
This provides municipal entities on
town, city and district level who do not
own a traffic center of their own with
the opportunity to use highly modern
control center technology without
having to invest in the associated
hardware and software. Especially in
time of tight budgets, this is the
ideal solution for ensuring the stable
operation of the existing traffic control
equipment without tying up municipal
resources or spending money on
extensive new infrastructure.
Renting control functions
instead of buying a control center –
a new type of operator model
Operator models have become an almost
indispensable tool in today’s traffic
management landscape. Our Siemens ASP
is also a kind of operator model because
the fully equipped traffic center is
located on Siemens premises, is owned
by Siemens and operated by Siemens. All
service and maintenance measures as
well as all updates of the center with new
software version and the latest technical
equipment are the sole responsibility
of Siemens as the operator. The customers
use – and need to pay for – only the
functions agreed in the contract. Hence
they need neither IT staff, nor special
premises, nor computer hard- and
software …
From a fault monitoring system
for traffic lights to full-scale traffic
management center functionality
The function range of the Siemens ASP
model is scalable. Various performance
packages, including traffic situation
overview, message sign control and
others, can be added to the basic “traffic
light monitoring” package. The solution
grows in step with the end customer’s
needs. The user interfaces are always
adapted to the currently contracted
scope of performances. This means that
a customer using the center as fault
monitoring center, for instance, works
with a user interface supporting exclusively
this function and showing only
the operating elements needed for this
function.
Highly secure access from any computer
Customers don’t need special hardware
to use our traffic centers in the scope
of an ASP contract. The center can
be accessed from any Internet-capable
Windows computer via the highly secure
CWP (Customer Web Portal) platform,
which is also used for power stations,
hospitals etc. CWP provides highly secure
remote access from the Internet to the
traffic center. For a safety- and securityrelevant
infrastructure system such as
traffic control, a simple Web login would
certainly not be secure enough.
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