Lisle Design transforms card hosting with Hyper
Tachograph specialist Lisle Design has explained the benefits of its Hyper card reader system, which it says allows users to host hundreds of company cards, reduce costs, improve service, and support compliance.
Hosting cards is a critical part of the tachograph remote downloading process, Lisle Design points out, but says that using standard smart card readers with standard PCs and servers presents some limitations.
“Over the past two decades we have provided customers with straightforward and reliable handheld and remote download tools,” said Mike Lisle, owner and founder of Lisle Design’s Digidown brand.
“We have a reputation for problem-solving. When it came to card hosting, customers kept showing us the makeshift solutions they had created to host their company cards.
“Sophisticated remote downloading software was being supported by decidedly unsophisticated card hosting. Hundreds of card readers were, in turn, connected to scores of computers, servers and hubs. It just about worked but was very unsatisfactory. The result – untidy solutions and enormous IT overheads.
“The challenge we set ourselves was to create a solution that did three key things: overcome USB limitations; physically host hundreds of card readers in a logical and tidy way; and radically reduce IT infrastructure and costs.”
The result is the Hyper card reader system, which allows users to host many hundreds of cards on a single server. These individual Hyper card readers are housed in modules of 20 or 30, which are designed to fit in standard 19-inch computer racks (3U high).
The Hyper communication protocol allows a customer to host hundreds of cards on a single server with the added benefit of logical enumeration: i.e., whenever a server is rebooted, card reader 10 is always card reader 10.
Since its launch, Hyper has been integrated with Dynafleet (Volvo), Scania software, TIS-Web (VDO), Teltonika, Transics, Xirgo, Tachofresh, DKV Telematics and other popular software. If a customer uses any of these solutions, they can enjoy the benefits of Hyper.
“We seek to improve as much as possible,” added Thornton White, Lisle Design’s director of development.
“Any moment now we will have a version of Hyper which requires little or no integration. Not quite ‘plug and play’ but very close.”
