By Lilia Guan
Software-as-a-service vendor, Mercurien has been short-listed by two Australian councils to provide them with the vendor’s locally developed cloud-based transport transaction product.
The Mercurien Platform provides the public sector with the ability to operate car park and tolling charges on one system across multiple sites in real time.
CEO of Mecurien, Michael Graham told Government News the company’s chief technology officer, Phillip Haynes had been developing the cloud product for the past ten years.
However it wasn’t until last five years that the product went from conception to reality.
“The changes in prices to hardware, single processes becoming double core and a whole range of issues within it allowed us to produce the cloud-based product,” he said.
Mr Graham said the signed an agreement with Telstra today, to use the telco’s Infrastructure-As-A-Service solution and its Next IP network to deliver the web-based transaction platform.
“It made sense to go through a telco because the product uses a sim card and modem,” he said.
“Telstra were interested in a cloud-based system.”
According to Mr Graham councils face a broad range of issues with transport, from traffic congestion to parking availability.
“Local councils face decisions about charging rates for parking stations and road management for council-owned cars,” he said.
“In areas like Sydney beachfronts - Manly or Waverly Council - residents can’t find parking because of all the traffic from visitors and those are the things that need to be balanced out.”
For Government car sharing applications gives them the ability to lower fleet emissions, Mr Graham said.
“The current products used for toll and parking charges were built without internet technology,” he said.
“A cloud-based product is an easier approach easier and flexible with discontinuous cost of deployment. For use of the product councils are charged like a credit fee.”
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