Stable vehicle-to-land connection
Reliable vehicle-to-land connections on public transport – anywhere, anytime.
Stable vehicle-to-land connection
Challenge
A stable vehicle-to-land connection is particularly important in public transportation. Buses, trains and cable cars must be in constant contact with the land side to transmit their current location, receive driving instructions, control traffic lights or provide passengers with up-to-date information. Passengers are often also offered WiFi access, which requires high bandwidths. However, the vehicles are constantly on the move and dead spots are not uncommon. Constant switching between 5G, 4G, 3G and 2G also presents transport companies with challenges.
Solution
In order to guarantee a stable and high-performance vehicle-to-land connection, all uplinks must be actively monitored and data traffic must be adapted to the actual conditions. This active control of traffic must be carried out from both the vehicle and the land side. A modern ICT architecture therefore requires close cooperation between the vehicle routers and the landside VPN gateways. Only in this way can both passengers and employees be constantly provided with digital services along the entire travel chain.
Why onway?
One of our unique selling points is the parallel use of several connections, i.e. several mobile phone providers and other technologies (WLAN, satellite, etc.). Our overall solution consists of vehicle routers and VPN gateways, which measure all connection qualities and distribute the data traffic proportionally. In this way, we guarantee a vehicle-to-land connection with the highest possible bandwidth, redundancy and low latency. The various data streams are protected by virtualized network functions (VLAN, VRF), making them independent of the hardware and of each other.
Our approach
Our mobile routers enable low-threshold and uncomplicated commissioning thanks to auto-provisioning: you order the router, connect it, insert a SIM card and the router then automatically connects to the cloud. It applies the current configuration and software and within minutes your router is online and ready for use. You can monitor the status of the router and the connected systems at any time in the central management portal.
Uncomplicated commissioning thanks to auto-provisioning:
on2800
Networking large bus fleets—simply and reliably.
- CarlOS
- CAN
- IBIS
- 5G
- Wi-Fi 5
- GNSS

on3800
Most stable rail-to-ground connection
- CarlOS
- M12
- SSD
- 5G
- GNSS

on4800
First 5G-capable mobile data centre - the ideal basic infrastructure for all digitalisation projects
- CarlOS
- 5G
- GNSS

Practical examples:

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onway can look back on a success story spanning more than 20 years. Together with the Jungfraubahn Group, we recall the beginnings of our solution for the mobile world.
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The collaboration between Verkehrsverbund Vorarlberg (VVV) and onway began in 2015 with a pilot project in which twenty city buses in Feldkirch were equipped with passenger WiFi. Passengers can now enjoy the free WiFi service on 61 buses in the city bus fleet.
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Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA) was looking for an integrated communication solution to offer passengers even greater convenience and to simplify communication between the individual vehicles and the control centre. onway was able to realise this exciting project together with Stadler Rail and AVA.
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Do you value a stable vehicle-to-land connection?
We will be happy to advise you.
Dirk Güthlin
Account Manager Traffic Solutions
Beat Stettler
Managing Director
