Introduction:
During the NUS open house (14 March - 15 march), a next bus
arrival LED screen was fixed up and working at the School of
computing enrolment booth in the open house event.
The LED screen showed when the next "Tour bus of campus for open
house" would arrive.
Now!
(ShuttleNet)
Today, Forum member Sv 966 (NUS student) spotted the LED screen
afixed at the Engine canteen (opp Central Library) bus
stop. and the Central Library (NUS Arts) bus
stop.
These LED screens showed not only NUS internal Shuttle
Bus Svc A1 or A2 but also showed when the next
svcs SBS transit 95, 96 and 151 would
arrive.
Also a website for NUS students to use was
launched. those with Wi-Fi phones can tap into the campus wi -fi
network, log on and proceed to this website for real time arrival
information of ISB A1/A2 only.
http://mobtorrent.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/bus_viewer/real_time.php
The ongoing project is called
ShuttleNet
hardware?
The NUS ISB buses are run by ComfortDelgro
Bus and based at the prince geroge's park ter.
in late 2007, When I was a student in NUS,, I observed new
consoles being added to A1/A2 buses . They look like they were
ex-Comfort taxi GPS interface consoles. it is likely
that this hardware is working on this trial.
At that time, i wondered if the School of Computing
faculty students could be coming up with a"Final_year
project FYP " on NUS bus tracking.
i think today,, their efforts finally paid off and they have the
hardware set up working for this trial.
Congrats!
We would like to congradulate the CIR lab
students / faculty members at NUS School Of
Computing , for successfully coming up with this system
for NUS bus campus tracking and real time arrival information. I am
very sure a lot of hard work was put and effort also.
tracking of Svcs B, C
and D and the BTC 1
in time we hope the system will take on the trackking fof the other
NUS ISB services.
At current present state the system is not tracking these bus
services within campus.
more info on the hardware, visit
http://mobtorrent.ddns.comp.nus.edu.sg/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
ZYX
Many thanks for the helpful info.....