Auditing System
It is imperative that a system which facilitates the collection and management of cash also support the auditing of these operations. The UTS financial auditing system provides this capability at each Facility and at the Service Center.
Facility Financial Auditing
A supervisor or manager within a Facility can access the details of every transaction that has occurred; whether associated with a toll attendant’s collection of payment, an ACM deposit made by a patron or an electronic payment based on a patron’s toll tag. The information exposed for a transaction includes the details of the location, time, vehicle classification at pre-class, pay-point (attendant) and post-class sensors, payment expected and received, and separately stored DVAS recorded video and still images can be optionally viewed as well.
Unusual Occurrences (UOs) configured by an Authority such as attendant misclassifications, vehicle run-throughs, and emergency service vehicles are identified within the system and isolated for review by a Facility manager or supervisor. They are able to enter search criteria to view the details of UOs, disagree/agree with the attendant action and also enter supplemental comments.
Service Center Financial Auditing
The UTS Service Center financial auditing system provides the following capabilities:
- Bank reconciliation of deposited batches by each Facility
- Toll Collector audit including all cash details
- Unusual Occurrences (UOs) reviews and adjustments
- DVAS audit to access all stored recorded video
and still images - Coin vault status and content information within a Facility
- Cash allocation information within a Facility
- Change fund reconciliation from the bank
- Review details of each segments of a tour of duty
- Assign/reassign transactions to segments of a tour of duty
- Interoperability reconciliation of accepted transactions for payment and rejected transactions
- Payroll audit for hourly and salary employees based on hours worked
- Evaluation of employee performance
- Review tracking of employees
Digital Video Auditing System (DVAS)
We have developed a complete Digital Video Auditing System that includes a video player and a high-resolution still image viewer. Facility and Service Center resources use DVAS to conduct historical reviews of individual transactions or facility events captured by digital cameras mounted at strategic points for traffic visualization and throughout the facility for security and monitoring. These same digital cameras are used to provide a continuous video feed within a highly configurable DVAS Live Video Viewer stations at each Facility and at the Service Center. Video and high-resolution still images can be captured and stored and easily retrieved online for all of the following and more:
- Vehicle transactions
- Personnel access control for each secure door
- Time management actions each time an employee changes their status using the time tracking system
- Cash management events such as tour fund transfers
or cash deposits - Vault management events
This tightly integrated auditing system provides the tolling authority the ability to easily retrieve visual images of critical events that take place within the tolling facility. It has proven to be a tremendous asset to operational staff for clarification of unusual circumstances that may have occurred within the facility and to the tolling authority for day to day management and observation of the daily operations within a facility.
DVAS Player Features
- Commonly used “VCR-type” controls: play, pause, fast forward, and rewind
- Ability to pull additional frames or extend time to a transaction video
- Image adjustment controls for contrast, color, and zoom
- Ability to export video or still image files for future use
- Complete transaction details display
DVAS Still Image Viewer Features
- Multiple high-resolution still images
- Displays transactional data associated with image
- Facility and CPC-level auditing capability
