An Ashby-based company has sealed a £1.3million, three-year contract, with a national bus company.

Journeo plc, based in Charterpoint Way, the information systems and transport technical services group, completed a Software as a Service (SaaS) contract for CCTV technology management with Arriva.

The contract includes engineering, software licenses and technical support services across the Arriva UK fleet of 4,700 buses.

The contract also includes a customer option of extending the software licenses by a further two years at additional cost.

Work has already commenced, and a number of buses previously equipped with Journeo's IoT hardware under a separate framework agreement will be included within the new SaaS contract, so that Arriva's entire UK bus fleet is connected and supported.

Journeo's cloud-based solution provides authorised users with authenticated, high-security access to video and associated data from any of their UK bus fleet vehicles - using local Wi-Fi or the Journeo Edge's 4G modem.

In addition to securely managing the data, Journeo's cloud services also provide a secure transfer between other systems used by Arriva to manage incidents across their network, including the real-time status of on-board technology using Journeo's remote condition monitoring application.

Russ Singleton, Chief Executive Officer of Journeo, said: " We have been working with Arriva in the UK since 2002 and Sweden since 2010 and are naturally delighted that they have chosen the Journeo cloud-based video management solution for their entire UK bus fleet. As the Arriva buses come on-line during 2022, we will have over 10,000 buses, coaches, trains and fuel tankers connected to our powerful cloud-based SaaS applications".