Carbox
Highly connected information system for carsharing
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Context

Carbox is the french leader in B2B carsharing service.
Carbox wanted their own tool to manage all the information system and a booking interface.
Testimonial
Alexandre Crosby : “Inovia is a strategic partner for Carbox that provides both highly competent engineers for the development of our application, and reactivity and flexibility of a human-sized company.”
Objectives
- Integrate everything in a friendly user backoffice (vehicles, companies, contracts, users, reservations, transacations, invoices, messages, …)
- Keep the system flexible
- Integrate multiple external services to communicate with vehicles, send text messages, stock dematerialized invoices, online payment.
- High availability/reliability
- Plan and manage old systems migration
Technologies
- Zend Framework
- Gearman
- PostgreSQL
- Novapost webservices
- Google Maps
- High Charts
- SOAP
- SIPS






Key facts
- Several major companies are using Carbox’s service. Parallel processing for actions that could take a long time to execute;
- Communication with cars;
- First development in 5 months. Delivered on May 2010, new features implemented every month since.
Team
Up to 7 Inovia’s members on the project










