Abstract an Electronic On-Board Recorder for Intermodal Drayage Operations

Аннотация

The idea behind Ubiquitous Computing is that the small things that make up the world around us will eventually become computational. As this happens, it will no longer become necessary to bring something to a computer to process information about it, because the thing itself will be able to process its own information. As all of these little things around us begin to communicate, we will realize the true benefits of computerization; we will have the machines without being conscious of their presence. Recent advances in cell phones and tablet computers, for example, have allowed us to take computers with us everywhere and gather and process financial, social and retail information in real time. This allows us to be conscious of the machines when we need them but not conscious of them when we do not, a far different paradigm from the desktop or laptop computer. Leveraging this technology can allow us to computerize modules of the global supply chain to increase efficiency and decrease cost and pollution. One area in which this is keenly relevant is in trucks.