Summary Draft 1 - Week 4

Summary Draft 1 - Week 4

  September 28, 2017

The article entitled “How Uber Engineering Increases Safe Driving With Telematics” by Beinstein and Sumers (2016) attempts to give insight on Uber’s utilization of telematic data to improve road safety and eradicate unsafe driving habits. Under the company’s mobile architecture, Global Positioning System (GPS) information from each trip is processed under Trip Services; while information gathered via Uber’s Vehicle Movement Processor, which analyses key indicators including harsh braking and sudden acceleration, will be utilized to complement and enhance the credibility of the telematics data obtained from the drivers.

Combining the two data sources, the resultant data will then be processed under Apache’s distributed streaming platform, Kafka, before they are committed to long-term storage under the HADOOP Distributed File System (HDFS). Using programs like Hive and Spark, batch data analyses are conducted to compute and derive statistics such as the ‘daily city-level averages for hard brakes’. Upon completion of the analyses, these data will be indexed under Elasticsearch cluster and made available via an Application programming interface (API) for developers.


References:
BEINSTEIN, A. and SUMERS, T. (2016). How Uber Engineering Increases Safe Driving with Telematics. [online] Uber Engineering Blog. Available at: https://eng.uber.com/telematics/ [Accessed 22 Sep. 2017].

Formal Introduction Email

Formal Introduction Email

  September 21, 2017

Dear Mr. Brad Blackstone,

My name is Keith Chong. I am an undergraduate student at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) studying towards my bachelor’s degree in telematics. I graduated in the year 2014 with a diploma in information technology at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), specializing in social media analytics. While pursuing my diploma in NYP, I was given the opportunity (during one of my computer lab sessions for the module to explore emerging technologies in the ICT field) to explore upcoming technological trends in the field of ICT.

My curiosity was piqued when articles related to autonomous vehicle technology surfaced, which kept my project team members captivated till the end of our lab session. Fascinated about this subject, my team and I chose this topic as our topic of choice for our final presentation. The time spent researching this field cemented our understanding on this subject whilst providing us better appreciation of both the ICT and automotive industry. This has consequently fueled my interest to pursue higher education in autonomous technology and affirmed my decision to pursue a degree in the fields of telematics and be part of the SIT family.

Pertaining to my communications skills, I have found report writing to be the lesser of two evils when compared to my presentation skills. I admit that I have many areas for improvement, most notably on areas involving public speaking, and I hope to cultivate and strengthen my soft skills in communication while reinforcing my technical report writing skills during our classes.

Being able to learn your guidance will be a tremendous learning experience for me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your time and I look forward to our next technical communications lesson.

Yours sincerely,

Keith Chong

TLM1010 Tutorial Group 3

Initial Draft: 21 September 2017
First Revision: 05 October 2017