Packed Buses * China - Young inventor solves problem
By installing a set of sensors on both sides of a bus door, the system records the number of passengers who get on
Beijing,China -www.chinaview.cn/Xinhua -June 30, 2008: -- A high school student has a bright idea to ease Shanghai's crowded buses - an automatic system to calculate how many passengers each bus carries... The system, invented by a first-year student at a high school affiliated to Fudan University, is composed of infrared sensors that connect to a control terminal through cell-phone transmission... By installing a set of sensors on both sides of a bus door, the system records the number of passengers who get on... The design enables the equipment to tell the difference between passengers getting on and getting off to give an accurate calculation of passengers on board. Data will be transmitted to bus coordination terminals to tell managers how crowded the buses are...
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