Atos

Atos SE is a European IT services corporation headquartered in Bezons, France, that provides consulting & managed services and systems integration, hi-tech transactional services, cloud and cybersecurity services. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology Services, Worldline, Atos Worldgrid and Atos Healthcare.

From 2012 - 2015, Atos Healthcare was part of a serious controversy in the UK over Work Capability Assessment introduced in 2008 to determine who should receive employment and support allowance. Decisions were taken by officials at the DWP using evidence from the assessments carried out by Atos Healthcare. In August 2015, statistics from the Department of Work and Pensions revealed that 2,380 people had died between 2011 - 2014 soon after being found fit for work through disability benefit assessments. In September 2015, in a groundbreaking ruling, the coroner summing up the suicide of a claimant who had been assessed by Atos said the Atos healthcare professional had failed to take into account the views of any of Mr A’s doctors during a 90-minute assessment, telling him the DWP decision-maker would look at that evidence instead. The DWP negotiated an early exit from the existing WCA contract with Atos in 2014 "after raising concerns about the quality of its work".

Atos (disambiguation)

Atos is a multinational technology company headquartered in Bezons, France.

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ATOS

Autonomous Decentralized Transport Operation Control System (東京圏輸送管理システム, Tōkyō Ken Yusō Kanri Shisutemu) or ATOS (アトス, Atosu) is a computerized control system used by the East Japan Railway Company to regulate train traffic on railway lines in metropolitan Tokyo, Japan. It was designed by Hitachi. The first deployment was on the Chūō Main Line in 1997. It is now used on fourteen lines listed below.

On ATOS-enabled lines each train station has electronic displays, which show scheduled arrival times and train destinations in Japanese and English, warn passengers when trains are arriving or passing through, send updates on system delays and accidents, and display messages to advertise JR products or warn passengers not to smoke. Voice announcements in train stations are also automated by ATOS using speech synthesis.

ATOS also directs train drivers through 16-by-16 lamp matrices, which flash messages telling the train driver to speed up, slow down, or adjust their scheduled departure time in order to keep the entire network running on schedule.