SYNAPSE™ is a revolutionary suite of Terminal Automation Products designed specifically for the Transportation industry. Its modular and scaleable design affords the opportunity for clients to “judiciously” implement technology depending on their current situation(s) and present needs. A specific concern or opportunity can be targeted with pinpoint accuracy.

The SYNAPSE™ “plug-and-play”, IP based design has provided an unparalleled technology product offering for today’s fast-paced, cost-conscious transportation companies.

Current modules include:

• Gate Operations
• Yard Operations
• Rail Operations
• Mobile Solutions
• Facilities Management
• Communications
• Integration Gateway
• Reporting

Background In order to avoid the common shortcomings of outdated and proprietary competing products while providing cost-efficient, realistic, “state-of-the-art” technology solutions, our engineers started with a “blank page” design approach.

Tasked with having to solve current and expected issues, NASCENT engineers set out to list the pre-requisites for SYNAPSE™:

• The system had to be modular.
• It had to be cost-effective and easily maintained.
• It needed to be easily integrated into a client’s existing/future infrastructure.
• It had to complement a client’s existing technology, systems and/or business processes.
• It needed to be scaleable to accommodate growth.
• It had to be easily customized for various sites and clients.
• It needed to enable centralization so that sites could be remotely operated.
• It had to be supportable remotely.
• etc.

Requirements were, thus, enumerated and addressed. The resulting design and solutions formed the foundation of our SYNAPSE™ architecture. Our engineers went to work and in late 1998, NASCENT unveiled its first SYNAPSE™ module offering and successfully demonstrated the operation of a gate lane (in Charleston, SC) from a remote site (Charlotte, NC). The SYNAPSE™ audio server’s voice quality was so impressive, that it beat other available VoIP offerings from Lucent, Cisco, and others. Six (6) months later, NASCENT deployed the “first-ever” remote operated gate (San Juan, PR). Our client was able to operate a remote yard from the main gate terminal a mile or more down the road. The system is still utilized today!