Transport Telematics

You must be familiar with "telematics" term..... either heard it from television or newspaper.

There is a telematics expert as well in Indonesia... 

but really, it's not just about determining whether an image is original or not, or analyzing video :)

Telematics is the integration of telecommunication and information system... have a look at wikipedia for more information.

So what is "Transport Telematics"? It's the implementation of telematics in transportation sector. The well known synonym for this term is "Intelligent Transport System" (ITS), or some people call it "Vehicle telematics".

The example of transport telematics are Electronic Road Pricing, Emergency and Breakdown System, Intelligent Speed Control System, etc...

We should proud, Singapore as part of Asia is the first country which implements ERP and it has been followed by many countries around the world.

My latest writing is about "Location Based Service" as the backbone of ITS. The characteristics of LBS as a Location-aware Application are aware of:

   - where the user is

   - when the user using the service

   - what is the user using the service for

Those three questions must be addressed by a good LBS application. And hence, it could be a great support for ITS since position and time are very important for transport telematics implementation.

Transportation is indeed a very important system that needs to be well managed to support the economic growth. It becomes the basis of industry society.

Indonesia as developed country could benefit from the implementation of transport telematics. Traffic congestion, speeding, safety are some issues that can be solved by ITS implementation and dependency to human resource such as police officer could be decreased. Well, of course the mentality of the driver needs to be managed as well :)

Abstract 

Transportation is an important aspect of economic growth. It becomes the basis of 

industrial society. Hence, good transportation management is needed. Intelligent 

Transport System (ITS) is a technology to address that issue. Transportation problem 

such as traffic congestion, speeding, emergency and breakdown service, traffic 

condition, and route and navigation can be solved by ITS. Location Based Service 

(LBS) as the basis of transport telematics, plays important role, specially it provides 

opportunity to private sector to be able to supports transportation regulator. 

Keyword: Intelligent Transport System, Transport Telematics, LBS 

*Image taken from: http://www.hel2.fi/liikenteenohjaus/eng/pt_telematics.asp

Mapping, the essential of Location Based Service

Today, I finished my another writing about Location Based Service... Well, it is not a deep discussion about LBS itself nor the mapping technology. My concern is about how essential is mapping to a LBS application and what will be the challenges and future developments that need to be addressed by software developer. I have done many mashups projects this year (recent one is property.adandsell.com.au) and GIS websites such as mymarket.com.au (demographic website based on the trend of gardening data in Australia -- Liquid Vision rebuild project). I found that map is an important visualization for the LBS or future of the Internet (It's proven by the increase of visitors for more than 150% in the property site and 30% of selling rates). Map provides better visualization especially for navigation services rather than lengthy text based information).

Abstract 

 Mapping is an essential component on a LBS application. Mapping provides better 

visualization of information to user rather than lengthy text based information. There 

are a lot of mapping Application Programming Interfaces (API) that can be used by 

LBS software developer to enhance their application. This ease-of-use API is a 

breakthrough in LBS development and is proven to generate thousands of location 

mashups that are very useful for user. There are a lot of challenges that needs to be 

addressed by software developer related to accuracy, clarity of information, user 

contributed content, dynamic content and other attributes such as richer road 

attributes and richer Point of Interest. 

Keyword: LBS, Mapping, Map API

My next project will also related to LBS system and the use of PDT (positioning determination technology) such as GPS, WIFI and cell based communication. Hmmmm..... I'm just afraid whether it could be finished in a semester or.... save some parts of it for the better future, hehehe.... 

Well... dunno.... I still enjoying the new programming language Haskell.... which is not related at all to my project. Hiks.... why I start to love this functional programming.... It's just so beauty... the syntax, concepts, and the difficulties of learning it....

My impression about Australian television

Hmmm... I'm still watching SBS station now :)

just want to comment that it's so different compared to what I found in Indonesia....

I just came home from work this arvo, then slept for a while.... 

Then... yeah.... watching TV...

it was about the philosophy of coffee.... how the coffee change the world... in Australia, it's just like a culture to go to cafe and just enjoying latte or cappuccino.... It's showing how starbucks penetrates the world with it's standardization of drinking coffee... hem it was mcdonalization... now perhaps starbucks-ization :)

Then, the followed by The inside mind of Hittler.... (which is I'm watching now).... insightful and worth it to be watched.

How full of knowledge for audience those..... Hem...wondering if we get those kind of series rather than soap operas (sinetron) as what can be found on most of channels in Indonesia...

cheers

First Sentence Syndrome

What a title....?

yeah, I don't know....

I used to write papers now... I need to supply 5000 words paper each two weeks..., I have written research proposals, reports, etc....

So, it's not my first time.... But, why the problem is always the same.... I confuse on how should I start my writing.... hiks....

Yeah,  theoretically, I know how to solve that problem (as what I always suggest to my student -- when I was I teacher )... but, it's so difficult for me to push the keyboard and start writing the first sentence. The effort of doing that  is perhaps half of all the efforts on finishing the paper itself... 

I have the idea, I have the outline... But, not in English, not in Indonesia.. the first sentence is something that makes me like a stupid person (I do)....

So, if it is fine... then I will call it "first sentence syndrome".... 

Yeah.. I need medication, please help......

cheers,

Image processing real world problem

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Read more at here

In Sydney, we can use an electronic tag which implements RFID to pay the toll, or if you don't have it, a camera will take a picture of your car and then process the plat number. if the plat number can't be read, then operator will manually do that.

This is the same technology on speed camera or traffic light camera, etc....

Well, it's not complicated technology.... I believe many Indonesian researchers have done it...

So why don't we implement that in Indonesia... ?

Well, it's easy to do a tricky thing to avoid the camera... especially in Indonesia where there are a lot of similar vehicles, etc.... and actually we don't need that if we able to be honest and wise person.....

cheers,

Image processing real world problem

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Read more at here

In Sydney, we can use an electronic tag which implements RFID to pay the toll, or if you don't have it, a camera will take a picture of your car and then process the plat number. if the plat number can't be read, then operator will manually do that.

This is the same technology on speed camera or traffic light camera, etc....

Well, it's not complicated technology.... I believe many Indonesian researchers have done it...

So why don't we implement that in Indonesia... ?

Well, it's easy to do a tricky thing to avoid the camera... especially in Indonesia where there are a lot of similar vehicles, etc.... and actually we don't need that if we able to be honest and wise person.....

cheers,

Interoperability of Positioning Determination Technology

Well, it's not well written yet....

but this is my latest paper about:

Abstract

Currently there is no single position determination technology that able to provide ubiquitous location based service due to the limitations of each system. Hence, interoperability of more than one platform of technologies is needed to support the service. Interoperability can be achieved by creating layers that provide a common abstraction for the application and the systems. The study case is computer network architecture, which already implements the layering method to get interoperability of all different network devices. This common abstraction is important, especially for LBS software developer to create an application that works on all position determination platforms and to get higher quality of information. By having the common abstraction, hybrid location technology is happened. 

I decided to start my final project as early as possible.... and lucky me.... I have gotten the supervisor... and she said that instead of doing project... I'll be a research assistant for her research (my project will be a part of her research) as well.... 

And lucky me again.... the research will be related on what really I like about.... and actually, it is what I haven't understand about..... and it's related to the position determination technology (which I learn this semester)

Thanks God..... (especially for "hidden treasure" (as what Ling said) for me)....

cheers