Agenda - Public Works Committee - 05/15/2012

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Reports that are standardized, including utilization, historical weather, roadway conditions, mileage, materials coverage, job completion and others, can be quickly accessed through existing report configurations. As necessary, City staff can use the user interface to select specific data and generate ad hoc reports at any time. City staff can interface directly to the database select specific data and generate specialized reports. Power Power for the data controller and the in -vehicle device are come from a power terminal. The additional power draw is not expected to be significant, however, separate fuses for installed GPS/AVL equipment is included. All in -vehicle devices being proposed are engineered to perform under extreme weather conditions and under normal rugged driving conditions while in operation. These in -vehicle units provide connectivity to all sensors and any external GPS antennas and/or equipment. Communication System The proposed City Navigo GPS/AVL Fleet Management System will communicate over a cellular data network. CDMA is the data service available over the Sprint wireless data service. The coverage area for CDMA covers the entirety of the City's operational footprint. A monthly fee is required for use of this service and is included in this proposal. Depending upon implementation the monthly fee will be contracted through the Sprint Corporation or Location Technologies, Inc. Location Technologies, Inc. is a certified Sprint Business Partner. All data formats are the same between the different communication schemes. This allows the user to mix and match communication schemes across their fleet as appropriate. LTI Hosting Services* Location Technologies, Inc. Hosting Services utilize the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) web service to provide resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web -scale computing easier for developers. This web service interface allows for scaling, obtaining, and configuring capacity with minimal friction. It provides complete control of computing resources and operates on Amazon's proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned. The service runs within Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters. The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region. Security Amazon EC2 includes web service interfaces to configure firewall settings that control network access to and between groups of instances. When launching Amazon EC2 resources within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), LTI can isolate instances by specifying the IP range, and connect to existing IT infrastructure using industry -standard encrypted IPsec VPN. *Citation: < http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ > (accessed 11/3/ 2010). 10 Proposal for City of Ramsey, MN Navigo GPS/AVL Fleet Management System Location Technologies, Inc. I All information within this proposal considered private and confidential.