Innovation (Davao)

                 

Davao is one of the nicest cities in the country. From the phrase “Davao, Life is here” you will find what you want. There are many establishments in the city which makes the business world booms.  Davao also is known as one of the safest city where people can stay with peace in mind and living their lives without worrying anything. I could say that Davao is better from the other cities since this city is more advance in terms of the technology they have. One of the example and which Davao is proud of is the PSSCC. According to some students who have been there, compare to the other cities’ surveillance center, Davao has a better technology. Even moles in your face are clearly visible to their screen which proves that the devices they are using is good which is really helpful in the city especially with the road situations. In connection with the road situations, the city applied the speedometer tool. This technology is used to control the reckless drivers so that, accidents will be lessen. This tool is a gun like device which will be pointed in the road. This will detect the speed of a vehicle. If a vehicle will exceed from the speed limit, then the officers will do their job. In my observation, holding a speedometer in a couple of hours or more is really tiring for the part for the officers. Aside from its kind of weary, there are possibilities that the officers will not be able to catch those drivers who are extremely fast in driving as the officers will put down the device. With this case, the government could have a speedometer in every part of the city but it will be attach in a post. In this idea, the officers will just keep their energy in standing everywhere with their device. But how could the officers will capture those reckless drivers? This will be done through the use of the database, plate number of the vehicle and of course the speedometer. The speedometer will be improved in this concept. Instead of recording only the speed of a vehicle, it can also capture what are the plate numbers and the person who was driving the vehicle. The speedometer will have an additional device inside of it and this is the camera and this kind of system will be called Speed Limit Recorder. So, whenever there will be speed limit violations in the road, then it will do its job and as it capture the plate number and the images, it will send the data into the database system of the LTO. The officers will now do their job. The officers may send a report to the operators of bus, jeepneys and other forms of vehicle. It’s up to the organization on what measures they will do regarding with the drivers who violates the orders. This concept is for the recording of who violates the speed-limit standard.

               

Wandering the places in Davao, I was able also to observe the bus terminal in Ecoland. The operation in the bus terminal is usual. Places like bus terminals are crowded. There different destinations in each buses and people recognize the bus’ destination through the sign board displayed in the bus’ window. There are instances that people will be tired of glancing every bus’ sign board just to know if it’s the bus they were looking for and I also experienced that as I went go home or going back to Davao. Since new technology is a big help to any establishments and to any operations, a bust terminal could apply the E-Bus System. With this system, the bus terminal could have different lanes for each destination. Example, there are lanes for Tagum City, Digos, Sto.Tomas and other areas that buses could go. Each lane has its own screen showing what places are included in that lane. Let’s say, if you’re in the lane for Tagum City, there are choices of place that can be pass by the bus as it goes to Tagum like Panabo, Panacan, and etc. Each places that are covered to a particular destination has also its own price depending in the kilometres covered in a particular place. As the customer choose where they will go, they will just swipe their credit cards or insert their money like in the vending machine and apparently, they will get their passenger card that is used to enter the bus. For the people who can avail the SP discount, they must present their ID indication that they are student or a senior citizen. As they have their ID, they will swipe it to the machine in the lane and have the appropriate fee. Upon entering in the bus, they will swipe their passenger card to get a seat number. As they go to their seat number, they must insert their card match with the given seat number. In this system, the bus operators can monitor their passengers whether they arrive in their location. There’s no way that the passengers can fool them since the system knows the destination of each seat numbers. But what if you don’t want to ride in the bus terminal due to some reasons that it’s far away from your house or in your location? Then as a passenger, you must follow the rule. You must go to the bus stop and each bus stop has a vending machine which is the same with the machine in the bus terminal. In this way, people will be discipline to ride in the right place such as in the bus stop or in a bus terminal. Ideally, this kind of concept will eliminate the over loading of passengers since there are seat numbers which will help to avoid any accidents.

               

In a city, malls are one of the places where people mostly go. I was able to visit one of the malls in Davao which is Gaisano Mall. In my observation, there are times that people who want to be aware of the running total of their picked items they keep on coming back again and again in the price verifier. This kind of style is very tiring to do as well as inconvenient and time consuming. So why not less the effort and live in an easy life? Instead of doing such things, PB Verifier could solve this. Push carts and baskets have its own price verifier which can help customers in monitoring their expenses. It can help them to budget their money as well as will save their energy in walking around the grocery area just to check whether they exceed to their budget. It will also total the items you picked as you drop it to the push cart same as with the basket. As the customer will remove the items, it will automatically deduct it from the previous total of the picked items.