Real-time Delivery

Halogen Information Services provides a suite of real-time services that delivers the Halogen logged HATMS (Highways Agency Traffic Management System) information in a variety of formats.

Highways Agency Operational Partners can access the most appropriate service to ensure the latest HATMS equipment status and fault information is delivered to their own operational systems. More information is provided in the section Integrating with Halogen.

Real-Time Services

Real-time services is a layer between the Databases and the Halogen client applications or tools. The Real-Time Services has many names, Services Platform is more commonly used than anything. This layer of infrustrature is a buffer between the databases which collect all the HATMS log information and the client applications like Halogen Browser.

The reason for having a middle layer is that the databases can concentrate on collecting HATMS log information and function will not affect the performance of the client application that want to view this information is their own unique way.

The below figure illustrates the part that Real-Time Services have to play in the bigger picture of Halogen, and the flow of data from the databases like HAL, Data Warehouse and Real-Time Database to the client applications.

The Real-Time Services are made up of the following client application:
(Click on the items to view more information on the individual client applications.)

- Halogen Browser
- Roadside Fault Display