Transportation by land

Authenticity and innovation for your success.

Buses, trams and trains - close relationships with designers, planners and engineers as well as operators and suppliers complement our technical expertise with detailed practical knowledge.

We look after global players as well as innovative SMEs, assisting them with the use of sensor technology.Our product portfolio serves as a basis, while our engineering expertise and our thirst for success create absolutely unique products - customer-specific sensor technology for the most exacting demands. Several hundred million switching operations are no problem for our SENSOR switches. This is no PR ruse- it´s simply the truth.

Our finest example - Munich’s underground railway system. The first CAPTRON products were installed in 1994 and are still working reliably and seamlessly today. You’ll also find us in buses in Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates.

The first CAPTRON products were installed in 1994 and are still working reliably and seamlessly today. You’ll also find us in buses in Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates.

 

Stop request buttons with touch function

CAPTRON, the pioneer in capacitive stop request buttons for public and private transportation. The maintenance and wear-free HWT series sensors ensure maximum reliability in continuous everyday use. Their innovative design is especially user-friendly, vandal-proof and also available with raised symbols for the visually impaired in accordance with TSI PRM.

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Door opening button with touch function

CAPTRON´s CHT series offers a wide range of easy-to-operate capacitive switches that feature an extremely long service life. Their robust, 100% water-proof and oil-proof design withstands tough environments, as well as the most adverse of weather conditions, making them ideal for engineering, industrial, transportation and building technology applications.

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Features

  • Touch control
    High ease of use, no pressure required.
  • Durable service life
    Several 100 million switching cycles
  • Wide selection
    Of touch surfaces, housings and designs
  • 100% water-proof and oil-proof – IP69K
    Sensor completely sealed in cast resin
  • Shock-resistant and vandal-proof
    The sensor cannot be destroyed by lighter flames or severe blows
  • Hygienic design (depends on the model)
    Based on DIN EN 1672-1/2
  • Feedback
    Optical (16 LEDs), acoustic (signal tone) and tactile (vibration)
  • Customized design
    Wide range of symbols and pictograms, including customized options

SENSRswitches for operating the emergency, information pillars and taxi cabs

For many years, Photon Meissener Technologies GmbH has focused on its expertise in the development and manufacture of complex systems, assemblies and components made of metal for a wide range of applications, as well as on speech, emergency call and signal technology for special areas - in particular for railway companies, industry and the public areas.

Product groupSENSORswitches
Model seriesCHT 4-series
Customer benefits 
  • Customer specific design
  • Durable service life
  • Weather proof in outdoor areas
 
Product requirements 
  • Low power consumption
  • Vandalism proof
  • Barrier-free TSI-PRM certified
 

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Extremely robust switches

CAPTRON Electronic GmbH produced various SENSORswitches to function as bus door openers for Dutch Ventura Systems BV, a producer of innovative door systems for buses, trams and rapid railway systems.

Ventura installed these SENSORswitches in series production for adhesive application on the bus doors’ window panes. As a result, CAPTRON has been a reliable partner of Ventura systems for more than a decade. The largest joint project so far was a major order placed out of Dubai and Abu Dhabi from 2007 to 2009.

At the time, approx. 1800 buses were equipped with SENSORswitches that had to stand up to any temperature and weather conditions. A challenge CAPTRON mastered perfectly!

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Switch made of aluminium

  • Single-sided operation (inside)
    Ideal for printed glass surfaces or wall mounting
  • Ø 63 mm swich surface
  • 12 mm height
  • Customization
    Symbols and housing colors
  • TSI-PRM conform
    Pictograms and braille available No operation force needed
  • Optical feedback
    16 bright LEDs
  • 100 % water and oil-proof
    (IP69K) Sensor is completely sealed in cast resin

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CHT3-1/-2

  • For screw mounting
  • Ø 88 mm total diameter
  • A- / V-mounting
  • Ø 50-58 mm mounting hole
  • 7 mm height
  • Customization
    Symbols and housing colors
  • TSI-PRM conform
    Pictograms and braille available,
    Optical feedback through LEDs
    Optional Tactile feedback (vibration)

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CHT4-2

  • For screw mounting
  • Ø 100 mm total diameter
  • V-mounting
  • Ø 27-60 mm mounting hole
  • 10 mm height
  • Customization
    Symbols and housing colors
  • TSI-PRM conform
    Piktograms and braille available
  • Optical feedback
    LEDs, optional tactile feedback (vibration), acoustical feedback (signal tone)

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Stop request button (HWT3)

  • Touch Control
    High ease of use, no mechanical pressure required.
  • Graphic Display
    Can show up to four moving images/sequences: LCD module with 64x72 pixel.
  • Feedback
    Visual and acoustic signals through graphic display, 16 LEDs and beeper.
  • Durable service life
    More than 100 million operation cycles (transistor output).
  • Accessibility
    Braille and raised chevrons on the housing or sensor area.
  • TSI-PRM certified (depends on model)
    By directive 1300/2014.

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