Ubiquitous Computing & Transportation Industries

Introduction

The definition of phrase “ubiquitous computing” means a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In a simple sentence, it means that everything that we used or face everyday will sort of computer system. The user can interact with the system using an interface as example graphical user interface(GUI) or nowadays called by a screen with an animation. While the transportation industry can be defined as a sector that providing transportation of cargo or passengers. An example like an airplane that can transport people or cargo to other destination. So, for the full meaning of term “Ubiquitous transportation of transportation industries” is the uses or the consumption of computer system to make the system fully worked and facile system.

In Transportation industries, it can be divide into several type which Land transportation, Air transportation and Water transportation. Land transportation consists of many types like cars, buses, train, taxi etc. Water transportation consists of ship and ferry most likely. While, Air transportation can consist of Airplane, Helicopter, and Spacecraft. Undeniable the transportation sector nowadays really play an important role in our daily life. Like transport the goods between an area and transport people to their workplaces. But, some of the system may be not irrational on these days anymore. Therefore, the research and development had been done to make our transport these days become more rational by highlight the important of better transport which is more safe, faster and not polluting the environment.

Land Transportation

The major problem in land transportation is the traffic management. According to the reliable website, www.businessinsider.com the most congested traffic in the world was in Los Angeles, California followed by Moscow, Russia and New York City. The main cause of this congested traffic was probably because of bad service of the traffic management body. As example, the traffic management body take too long time clean the road after the accident thus make the traffic become slow and congested.

Water Transportation

The water transport is still being use these days especially in the third world country like India. The river of India has mainly become their main waterways to transport their goods as the water transportation was more cheaper and can carry more load than using land transportation. However, there is a big problem in this sector which is a longer journey time. As example, the ship must follow along Atlantic Ocean in order deliver goods from south Canada to North Canada. This journey eventually will consume more time and fuel to the Cargo ship especially.

Air Transportation

The air transportation usually had a problem with the time of the journey whereby the average flight duration around 3-6 hours for medium-haul flight. In this duration, it is impossible for the pilot to steer the airplane all the way. It also seems impossible for pilot to take a toilet break. The pilot also may become recklessly and sleeping during long flight and increase the possibility to crash. The pilot also had more to things to concentrate such as the path and weather conditions.

Land Transportation

As we know, the major problem of land transportation is the road congestion. To overcome this problem, we need to add up more Traffic monitoring headquarters. So, the traffic can be monitoring in real time and more faster action can be done if any accident happens. Besides that, we also must provide a user-friendly app to enable the driver to plan their journey and avoid the congested traffic. This example can be seen when our country, Malaysia had provided an app to the driver called Plus Mobile app to enable the driver to catch up a latest news about the traffic condition and plan their journey. In this app also, it provides the driver a real time view of the traffic condition.

Water Transportation

The long path problem can be solved with a help of a built of artificial canal. As an example, in Panama in 1903, The American president, Theodore Roosevelt saw a future of new era of global shipping and started to negotiate with Britain president during that time to build an artificial waterway. The built duration of this canal around 13 years approximately. This is being the first biggest canal during that time. The Canal was renovated and opened again during 2015 whereby it expanded until can held capacity of three times bigger than old capacity. The system also been modernized by can control in the control panel room whereby the lock and unlock of the canal was doing manually before renovated. By using this canal, the ship that travel from San Francisco to New York can save 7872 miles approximately. Thus, also saving the cost of fuel of the ship.

Air Transportation

The problem that faced by the air transportation sector is the duration of the flight. Therefore, to overcome this problem is by an autopilot system. This autopilot system works by an input and output system and regulator. As an example, the gyrometer sensor will detect if the altitude of the airplane drops continuously and through an algorithm that has been calculated by the computer then will adjust the flaps of airplane to climb up. This will give the pilot more time to look around all the gauge in the cockpit without worrying about the steer of airplane. The pilot also has more time to check the navigation of flight to ensure the flight arrived at destination. Autopilot also will significantly improve the efficiency of fuel usage and saving cost of the fuel of airplane. It also will control the airplane more smoother control than by using human hand. Finally, it also ensures the safety of passengers because the percentage error during flight will decrease as the cause of error by human.

Conclusion

The computer concept system are works around us without we even notice such as escalator, elevator and smoke detector. Therefore, it is undeniable to say that a present of computer system is unbeneficial to us. But, the over-dependent to computer maybe reduce our brain capability. So, we must control our usage of computer as it will make our life easier but remember to minimize the usage.

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