Televic Rail
With over 30 years of experience in designing, manufacturing and maintaining on-board communication and control systems, Televic Rail is a leading, trusted partner for railway operators and train builders worldwide.
Its Passenger Information Systems and Control Systems are high quality, tailor-made solutions that offer the flexibility, user-friendliness and stability that our clients ask for. Our various types of on-board control systems such as our bogie monitoring systems are innovative yet reliable products which are designed specifically for the railway business.
Trains and trams all around the world are equipped with Televic Rail solutions, from New Zealand to Canada, from China to the United States, from India to Belgium, England and France

Passenger information systems often need to be developed to meet a variety of norms and standards. One of these norms is TSI PRM, where PRM stands for Persons with Reduced Mobility. With regards to display content it comes down to have sufficient readability:

• Minimum font height ( mm );
• Maximum scroll speed ( characters / second );
• Minimum time of word visibility ( 2 seconds );
• Ascender/Descender size with regards to Capital height.
• Contrast of text vs backgrounds

Currently these requirements are being postprocessed after the font and settings have been created. But ideally it would be done at font and template creation to have a direct feedback for us and our customers.
For TFT screens, content templates are being created in Televic's fleet management tool 'Live Com Suite'. These templates are being created based on display resolution but not on physical size. The goal for this project is to create a validator that analyzes the chosen fonts and field definitions and provides a report whether the different requirements are met by analyzing the used font in relation with the field in which it will be displayed.
Our LED displays need something similar, but due to the low resolution of these devices the font needs to be created. For that we have a standalone application, but also here we lack the same feedback as for the TFT displays. And it would even be better if we could add this application as a plugin to Live Com Suite where the fonts can be created and the different fields can be defined.
If you are interested in this topic, please also register this on the Televic website at:
https://www.televic.com/en/careers/internships-and-students so we can confirm the topic is still available.

Specifics

• Level: Bachelor
• Specialty: Software
• Type of work: Research: 20%, Implem.: 60%, Experim.: 20%
• Location: Televic, University
• Type of activities: Experimenting, Programming
• Number of students: 1

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+32 51 30 30 45

Email

y.feyers@televic.com