In the lead up to the Technology and Maintenance Conference in Melbourne, News Corporation Australia's Big Rigs published an article about the Wait Advisor. Our thanks to Bob Riley for writing this up.
The Wait Advisor is an app which truck drivers can use to record wait times. A typical user story will be like this: Use of the app is as simple and straightforward as possible. When a truck is stuck in a queue, the truck driver can quickly activate the app and when the wait is over, the truck driver simply deactivates the app to signal that the truck is ready to move to its next destination. What happens in the background is that when the truck driver activates the app, it records the current time and location. When the app is deactivated, it records the time and location at the time of deactivation. The wait time is then calculated as the time that has elapsed between the time when recording was started to the time when it was stopped. The app then transmits this data to the server in the cloud. Data is gathered in this way. The more truck drivers use the app, the more data the server will receive. When there is sufficient number of users, data can then be aggregated to make ...
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