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Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? Seeking freelancer? Interviews are starting this week, we're very ready. Our team works on all the non-ad screens in the subway, as well as two apps TrainTime and the MTA app and our website. We're a team of 20, mostly engineers, a few PMs and a designer. We operate like a startup within the MTA and are responsible for all customer-facing digital endpoints.
Great job with the apps and signage. Rooting for your team! One of the best parts about NYC! Traintime is an amazing app. Love it! I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. This is typical of old buildings that get new technology. Just left in place, then who ever installs the new stuff comes along and gets to add even more conduit and wire. Even to just add stuff to an existing location, you would think oh there's already conduit from A to B no problem, Probably still going to end up with new conduit ran.
This kind of stuff can be anything from abandoned old analog phone lines to CCTV to even old AC power stuff occasionally. Not the person you're replying to and I don't work for the MTA but some of the radio boxes you are seeing are likely Ultra Wideband radio beacons used for train positioning. Similar concept to GPS but instead of satellites which aren't so good when the trains go underground or even when they are above ground but have high building skyline obstructions the train positions itself based on time-of-flight pings to these beacons with known locations and using multilateration to figure out where the train must be based on the distance information.
Source: Working for a company in San Diego but travelling to NYC often I wrote a now surely obsolete version of the positioning code running in MISRA C on what were basically Raspberry Pi devices installed on the trains back during the proof of concept phases of this system when it was only the 7 line 5-ish years ago back when Andy Byford was still running things. Spent a lot of late nights on 7 line trains doing real world tests exciting when we tested the failsafes and the train had to e-brake!
