TELECOM INTERNET DESIGN VRT KIOSK FOR REVENUE COMMISSIONERSTuesday, 19 May 1998. A new touch sensitive Vehicle Registration Tax Information Kiosk, designed by Telecom Internet for the Revenue Commissioners, has been installed in the Vehicle Registration Office, Tallaght. The VRT Information Kiosk represents an innovative use of Internet-based technologies to provide a tangible benefit to the public. The system is the first customised Internet-based kiosk system in Ireland. Unlike traditional multimedia touch-screen systems, the retrieval, storage, presentation and maintenance functionality is implemented entirely using established and emerging Internet and World Wide Web standards. Content is served form a Web server and the kiosks act as thin clients. The VRT Information Kiosk was developed in response to the large number of enquiries received daily from individuals planning to purchase used cars abroad. The public can now access details of how much VRT is payable in respect of almost 10,000 motor car models through the new system. The system links into a mainframe-based database of car-types and tax-rates. Via a touch sensitive screen, the customer is offered a choice of over 50 different makes of vehicles with further options by model, fuel type, body, etc. Factors such as the age and mileage of the car are then selected so that an accurate assessment of the VRT payment can be given. A printout of the information is provided. Besides meeting immediate requirements, flexibility to meet future requirements was integral to the development of the kiosks. "The system has been designed to be flexible and we hope to develop it to provide additional services to the public in the future", says Brendan Hinchy, IT Project Manager at the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. "Telecom Internet is delighted to be associated with the development of the Revenue Commissioners VRT project", says Fintan Lawler, General Manager, Telecom Internet. "We believe this system represents the future of Multimedia Kiosks and we look forward to assisting the Revenue Commissioners in developing the potential of this service." For further information: Nuala Buttner Press Office Tel: 01 701 5554 Mobile: 087 2352165 Email: [email protected] Technical Information: The system is both the first commercial implementation of Dynamic HTML in Ireland and the first customised Internet based kiosk system in Ireland. Unlike traditional multimedia touch screen systems, the retrieval, storage, presentation and maintenance functionality is implemented entirely using established and emerging Internet and World Wide Web standards, namely: TCP/IP is the transport protocol used for carrying information and messages between the client and server components Client presentation software using Microsoft�s Internet Explorer 4.01, although the system is designed so it can also use Netscape Navigator. Client server communication is implemented using HTTP Microsoft�s Internet Information Server is used to pass information to the client kiosks for display Standard Web browser programming languages: Dynamic HTML, Java, and JavaScript are used throughout to implement a highly ergonomic multimedia user interface on the clients� Microsoft�s Active Server Page technology is used on the server to automatically retrieve information from a Microsoft SQL Server database using SQL query language calls. The server component is implemented on a high performance Compaq ProLiant PC running the Microsoft NT Server 4/0 operating system. The entire system took 4 months to design and develop.
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