Inspección Digital de Equipos de Recaudo en Paradas y Terminales de la Metrovía

Abstract

Metrovía Foundation, as a regulator entity for the Metrovía Transportation System, performs inspections to check the status of the control equipment at bus stops and terminals that make up the backbone of the system. These inspections are carried out by trained personnel, however, a problem arises on using procedures without any technological intervention; recording the findings on paper sheets, pre-printed forms. This, besides generating avoidable expenditure of paper, it can introduce human error in the process. This creates an extra burden because an additional step is required, since someone must type the information from the paper, for being saved on digital information deposits in headquarters to be processed and analyzed. Because of this, it was necessary to make a change of procedures, incorporating a technological element in the process: an application for mobile devices, the staff of inspectors will use to record the findings from the inspection. This way it is improved the times that the information takes to be available from these inspections, errors margin is reduced, and a considerable saving of paper was achieved.