Hussien Younis, Mohammad Abu Zaid and Walaa Foqais are computer engineer students at the AAUJ who managed to innovate a system to follow up vehicles that the users of this system can be provided with information on vehicles such as its speed, place, temperature and fuel levels. This project was developed under the supervision of Dr. Osama Salameh an instructor at the Computer engineer department of the engineer and computer science faculty.
Student Hussien younis said about the project:”this project is a follow up system that enables its users to determine the place, speed, fuel level and mileage of a specific vehicle, this besides other information from the computer of the vehicle. Our developed system is a very accurate system that gives specified information about the vehicle.”
He added:”this system doesn’t need to be connected to any wires inside the vehicle, it needs only to have a power source to connect the computer, then to build a computer application, a website and a mobile application so that the stored information can be displayed on maps, and then we can display each and every vehicle that is connected to the system, and to know all the information about it. The map system has an offline map application that doesn’t need internet connection to get to work.
Mohammad Abu Zaid clarified that the system was programmed to work on the personal computer and the mobile phone, in addition to a website that makes it easy to follow up vehicles. The idea was because there was no vehicle follow up system in Palestine and this is where they have started the idea.
Abu Zaid added, ”there is a system used in the market that are made by china, we tried to find faults in it and develop our project without these avoiding these faults and we have succeeded, and we developed the system to be good to the Palestinian situation as we don’t have 3G in Palestine so we used GPRS to send data from the vehicle to the server, and even if the internet was down, we can use SMS, so the system can wrote even without Internet.”
Student Walaa Foqais assured the importance of this system to the government, as they can follow up all their vehicles. Also to companies and taxi offices, this system can follow up the vehicle and the number of people each taxi carries, the fuel level, the temperature and it can provide the driver to a specific place without using the Push to Talk system.
The AAUJ president, Professor Mahmoud Abu Mwais praised the project and the students’ efforts saying that “the University encourages the freedom of thinking and creativity of the students through its academic programs.” He added that “the university’s philosophy is to develop the creativity and the creative thinking of their students and continue in encouraging them with the appropriate companies that care to develop these projects.”