How can Ara SaaS help you broadcast better real-time data?

Ara SaaS has been designed for more than “just” broadcasting your real-time information: it can become your secret weapon for better operation management. Intrigued? Read further!

A bridge between standards

Ara SaaS is a bridge between all standardised data formats that are dedicated to real-time information, and more specifically the ones used for open data (both SIRI and GTFS-RT) but also between CAD/AVL systems.

In a nutshell, Ara SaaS can:

Collect all the available data from your CAD/AVL systems and ensure its broadcast,
Bridge SIRI services with GTFS-RT (e.g., SIRI Situation Exchange and GTFS-RT Service Alerts)
Generate real-time information based on other flows (e.g., SIRI Stop Monitoring can be built using GTFS-RT trip updates and your schedule public transport data),
Enrich your real-time information leveraging several fields that exist in all SIRI Services.

As of today, Ara SaaS uses the following SIRI services:

🚋 Vehicle Monitoring (VM),
🚏 Stop Monitoring (SM)
🕙 Estimated Timetable (ET),
🗓 Production Timetable (PT),
⛓️‍💥 Situation Exchange (SX),
🛗 Facility Monitoring (FM).

You can learn more on how Ara SaaS collect and broadcast real-time information data via our public User Manual.

Improve your CAD/AVL systems with Ara SaaS

Since Ara SaaS allows you to generate direct connection with your CAD/AVL systems to harvest your real-time information, it can serve as your ally to monitor your CAD/AVL systems using SIRI check status. You can:

Monitor the status of a data flow from the user interface,
Visualize all your real-time data systems in one go.

Thanks to automatically generated alert, you no longer have to worry about your CAD/AVL systems. Just send them a notification whenever you receive it from Ara SaaS!

It has become one of the favorite features of Ara SaaS through the years. Learn more about it on our User Manual

Generate open data easily and at no extra cost

In one single click, you can broadcast your real-time data toward any National Access Point or open data platform. And, it will cost you nothing as your open data will directly point to our broadcasting servers. It means that you do not have to worry about receiving too many data requests, the load of sharing data, etc. We manage it all for you.

Via the user interface, you can:

Simply select the SIRI services you want to broadcast and they can all be part of the same connector,
Set up 3 different URL for GTFS Realtime services

Bonus for the French PTAs: our team worked with the French NAP to facilitate your broadcasrt in SIRI. All you need to do is let them know that you are ready.

This is for our open data broadcast in SIRI: Ara SaaS - Open data in SIRI