Digital Pioneer has put embedded Linux to work inside an innovative, next-generation payment terminal for parking lots, to solve the problems of reliability, theft, vandalism, and weather damage — common (and potentially expensive) headaches with parking payment meters.

The Intella-Pay Payment Station's embedded computer is based on an XScale-based SBC running a Linux 2.4.19 kernel and the Familiar Distribution. In addition to networking the meter for payment processing and remote management, the embedded Linux-powered computer interfaces with numerous subsystems that monitor various activities and device states.

Our Device Profile offers further technical details and photos of this innovative embedded Linux design win.

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