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Design and Analysis of Tracking Device for Wireless Embedded System
(Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh, 2014-11-15) Uddin, Md.Tausif; Rahman, Md.Fahim; Farhad, Saleh; Zaki, Maisra Abdul Azim
A large number of children are being kidnapped on a regular basis which is a matter of great anxiety for the parents. Then again a huge number of people who are sufferers of Alzheimer disease or mental degradation are reported missing every year. Thus, in order to ensure the security of life for these particular individuals, we would require a precise tracking device at a low cost. The purpose of this project is to use the global positioning system (GPS) and the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) for tracking purposes using Google Maps. The system is divided into two parts, which consists of the tracking part and the displaying part. For the tracking part, we used a microcontroller along with a gps and gsm module, which altogether makes the embedded system. The GPS module provides the information of the location of the subject to the microcontroller. Then the GSM module sends the co-ordinates of the location to the user. The data is sent through Short Message Service(SMS) by the GSM module. And the message is received in a cellular device. Then the co-ordinates in the cellular device are matched with the co-ordinates in Google maps. Then the information about the subjects location is obtained. in. In this project, we used a GSM module with a SIM card. This SIM card sends the data in the form of a SMS to the receiver. Then the data is matched with Google maps by the cell-phone. In the modern world this type of tracking devices are available, but they come at a high cost. So our main goal was to make the tracking cost efficient. To achieve our goal we first established that our device can track precisely and then we gave our views about the cost minimization.
Use & impact of “Red Way of Work” in the ICT product development team of Grameenphone
(BRAC University, 2019-12) Uddin, Md.Tausif; Ahmed, Dr. Salehuddin
Grameenphone LTD, a joint venture between the Norwegian telecom company Telenor and the Bangladeshi company Grameen Telecom is the largest mobile operator in Bangladesh. Grameenphone has been the champion mobile operator since the embryonic stages of the telecom industry in the country, and with more than 15,000 2G and 3G sites as well as the growing number of 4G sites (currently more than 10,000), the Grameenphone network covers 99% of the country’s geographical area and has more than 75 million customers (as of June 2019). Grameenphone’s strategy has constantly evolved to best serve the changing market nature of the telecom industry – from an industry whose major business was built on voice service mostly, it quickly transformed to position itself as the number one mobile data connectivity provider with the emergence of 3G and 4G technology. Now, in this era of 4G and with 5G knocking at the door, Grameenphone and Telenor has already realized that the next paradigm shift of the telecom and connectivity market would cross the traditional use of mobile phones by customers for voice and data to digital, IoT, ICT, automation and smart living. With the ambition to capture the number one position in the digital lifestyle of customers as well as lead the ICT revolution in the country from the front, Grameenphone has added more and more resources into secondary products in the niche market of ICT and IoT products such as industrial automation, M2M communications, cloud infrastructure, software-as-a-service, vehicle telematics, smart home, smart tracking and smart farming. The main demarcation line was drawn out that digital apps were targeted for the consumer segment of the market (B2C) whereas the ICT and IoT products were targeted for the enterprise or business customers (B2B). However, with diffusion of influence and sensing market needs, this demarcation line has been growing thinner with both streams of products being customized to be offered to more target customers, crossing the boundary of consumer and enterprise segments. Grameenphone started to develop products and services with less resources and exposing them to limited enthusiastic customers. This is more commonly known as the “Red way of work” in which the target was to capture customer feedback as fast as possible and work on them to bring new iterations of the product, increasing the exposure to customers in the process and finally complete versions of the products were created. As a member of the ICT Product team of Grameenphone working as a Product Developer, I have had good exposure to these practices. This report describes the product development and product management process of Grameenphone. A survey was conducted to identify which of the practices are followed in the product management and Product Development teams in Grameenphone. It was found that the development team is following the Red Way of Work while the Product Management team follows the Blue Way of Work. Though these teams follow different modalities for their work, it is recommended that the values and the ways of work converge with each other in order to make this venture of B2B business through ICT Products successful.