Sirit Adds Colombia to List of South American Customers

Sirit Inc. and Simplexity, one the largest system integrators of toll solutions in Latin America, announced the first installation of a Sirit electronic toll collection (ETC) system in Cartagena, Colombia.

The system utilizes Sirit’s IDentity 5100 (ID5100) readers and ISO 18000 6C passive tags.



Concesión Vial de Cartagena controls a 17-mile, four-lane urban highway with a total of five toll plazas connecting industrial areas in the south with downtown Cartagena and the Port of Manga. The highway is utilized on a daily basis by thousands of travelers as a main business route, connecting corporate offices and manufacturing plants with residential areas. The highway is also a main thoroughfare for heavy vehicles to access Cartagena’s largest port into the Caribbean.



Concesión Vial de Cartagena selected Simplexity’s toll solution, branded as “T9”, as their technology solution for all lane controllers, toll plaza software and ETC back office functions. Simplexity’s T9 system boasts state of the art technology with its design concept based on using generic parts and open architectures. The system leverages current technologies such as embedded operating systems, .Net languages and a fully remote managed solution, among others. All five toll plazas were upgraded with ID5100 readers supporting the T9 platform and have been successfully operating since June 2009. 



“The ID5100 is a very efficient and versatile reader”, commented Luis Lorenzo, GM of Simplexity. “Our engineers have been able to manage script programming and configuration from day one and that has proven to be a keystone in making a transparent transition of technologies, with no hassle to the end user.”



“We are very excited to add another success in Columbia to our growing list of installations across South America, which include Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay,” said Wolf Bielas, President Latin America, Sirit. “We continue to prove that Sirit’s products provide the best solution to our customers seeking cost effective, easily installed and fully interoperable systems regardless of the current infrastructure in place.”