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Researchprojects
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Research
Project PARCELMAN |
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The Research Institute
for Operations Management (FIR) and the Institut for
Work Science at the RWTH Aachen (IAW) design a
concept for more efficiency in last mile parcel
delivery. The technology approach and guideline in
this project is covered completely by adisoft.
The focus herein in set on mobile data
communications and the integration of mobile data
services and applications in the logistics and
process chain of such companies. „ParcelMan”
has been launched on the first of October 2001. Its
goal is to enable messenger, express and parcel
services to deliver higher values and logistic
services to their customers. Technology-wise
possible implementations and desirables have to
match employees and customers in order to become
efficient for the business.
Having in mind that a numerous new demands are
raised for delivery services by the growing
influence of electronic data exchange in business
processes, we face the challenge to provide
solutions that covers the touched areas all
alike:logistics, personnel policy measures and
technology.
Customers today expect to have control over the
status of their delivery in real-time. The
distribution of goods has to be performed in shorter
and shorter time frames. Practically, these demands
require a total renunciation from the traditional
process chains. Flexible processes modules need to
be introduced that incorporate the customer. The
service employee on site the „ParcelMan”, will gain
more responsibility within the whole business
process and he will operate on a higher level of
decision making and service quality. Nevertheless,
the workload for these employees may not grow.
So the project aims to enable value-added high
quality services to todays portfolio and provide the
necessary control and management tools for this
approach. The technology target is to provide
a sustainable IT infrastructure plus guidelines on
how to introduce it operationally.
For further information please visit: www.parcelman.de
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Research Project VIVIAN |
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Mobile communications,
personal computing and distributed information
services and applications come together. Existing
commercial platforms for mobile devices need a
technology push to fulfill the demands of this new
market.
In the future, mobile users of such distributed
information services will obtain accompanying
information when asking for an address (for
example). Possible adds in case of address
researches may be a detailed map and routefinder as
well as historical information and opening hours.
The aim of adisoft in this project has been to
identify, design and implement a platform for
reliable and secure mobile data communications
within a components-based architecture that is
completed and implemented in various devices through
the cooperation partners. This platform offers open
and state-of-the-art interfaces based on accepted
standards. This way, a compatibility guide allows
all applications to apply the given functionality.
Due to the market moves in devices and mobile
applications Java technology has been chosen for the
user application interfacing.
The VIVIAN project wants to provide such a platform
in order to enable thrid parties to make their
applications mobile without huzzles. A variety of
software problems had to be solved on the way. But
the VIVIAN projects succeeded in providing the
platform plus a number of applications that
demonstrate how add-on services can be integrated,
how they add to the mobile users convinience and how
sustainable technology can help the market grow. The
specification and description of the VIVIAN platform
is available to developers of mobile applications in
terms of Developer's Guide. The VIVIAN Internet
homepage makes these research results available to
the public.:
For further information please visit: www-nrc.nokia.com/Vivian/ |
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Research Project
Car-Flash |
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car-flash -
Remote update of vehicle controllers
In new vehicles, especially cars, you will find
about 70 different controlles for higher safety,
user comfort and entertainment. Although these
components have very different tasks to fulfill,
they have to communicate and interoperate with each
other. in complex car network and process scheme.
Errors in the software of one single controller can
generate misbehaviours of otherwise correctly
working components, and so the whole network
functionality may become error-prone and
instable. Manufacturers have to find ways to
prevent such interworking error situations in their
vehicles. This is the only way to reduce the number
of cost-intensive call backs or controller update
necessities within standard maintenance routines.
CarMediaLab (Bruchsal) and adisoft systems (Berlin)
cooperate in a two years project (until end of 2010)
which wants to show a prototype that will enable
controller flash updates over the air. This project
is founded by the German Federal Ministry for
Economy and Technology based on a resolution of the
German Parliament. First task within the project is
to define the operational scenario for such remote
flash updates, i.e. the actual conditions needed for
an update, rollback mechanisms to recover from
faulty updates or other failure situations and the
match of minimum computing ressources that can be
provided by some embedded car system (size, energy
consumption, etc.). The prototype is meant to run in
experimental vehicles and test carriers of the
manufacturers. These fleets are operated for various
evaluations and their number is somewhere in the
four-digit area. The mobile update distribution
allows optimized and centralized control of a
homogenous software flash covering all vehicles.
This way the frequently required updates in
experimental fleets can be managed in a much shorter
time and with under total control. Via
successful operation within experimental cars the
solution will be transported to the mass production
later.
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