Community
The community that I value is Nonthaburi. It is the city that I was born and raised there. The city is located in Thailand (close to the capital city called Bangkok). This community means a lot to me because I spent almost all my 15 years of my life on it. I observed how things change from one bit to another. In the given picture, it is the place where I used to pass every single day. It is the port that people wait for the boat, so they can travel to their workplaces, schools, and etc. It is a place that very active and busy all the time. I usually go to school by bus or on the boat. Either way is fine but someday the traffic got worse and Bus is not the right answer for not being late to school. This community is important to me because I did not know how long it can keep going. Things can be created and be destroyed. I have the feeling that this place will get demolished because people just use the place and not renovating it. Many of us making benefits from the place but did not care how things will be. It would be nice if people start to take care of and be aware of how old this place is. Renovating by each and everyone’s hands would be nice to create a better public place. What I can see three main problems in my community is dirtiness, unsafe transportation (port), and traffic.
Support Techs
As I mentioned above the main problems that I observe can be fixed and change in a better way by these supporting techs.
These are the main supporting techs that I decided to make use of in the community.
DustClean
“DustClean is an autonomous mobile robot equipped with brushes and containers for sweeping and collecting garbages from the ground. ” It is the robot created by ROBOTECH. In my community, I find this helpful because even though we know that we have laws to fine littering but it happens that people will still do it and one of my community is one of them because of a large group of people passing by the place a day. It is difficult to even track down who littering. These would be one of the solutions to help to make my community cleaner. It is also controlled by AI and humans. As I mentioned that they are a lot of traffic and cars in the area. It is okay for them to get hit by cars or buses rather than hiring people to clean and might have more chances to lose their lives.
Pedestrian Tracking System
While most people think about vehicles when they think about traffic congestion, addressing pedestrian traffic is a vital piece when understanding a city’s traffic problem.
This V2I technology will help the community area to track how many vehicles pass throughout an intersection at different times and how many pedestrians cross the street (particularly those who are jaywalking).
This information can help city planners find patterns in pedestrian traffic so they can time lights or shift traffic flow to less populated areas of the city as needed. This increases the efficiency for all travelers and makes crossing busy streets safer for everyone on the road.
Adaptive traffic signals
V2I is playing a leading role in making traditional traffic signals smarter and more efficient.
This information is analyzed, and its data points are used as part of the city’s smart city pilot program. This program is giving city officials detailed insight on how long vehicles sit idle at traffic lights and this information can be used to make travel throughout the city more efficient and environmentally sustainable.
Real-time traffic feedbacks
This real-time traffic feedbacks will help people in the community to know the exact locations of the bus. Their arriving and departing time. This would really useful for my community that is huge traffic problems.
Banned Techs
Google Street View
It is the tech that I feel like they are taking collecting data without permission. These data can be tracked by third-party and use for something unhealthy. So, I do not actually support what they are doing. I know it would be nice for people who are traveling and try to study the roads, maps, and places but gathering information and data without permission is not something great for. Sometimes, I feel like going to the place and study it like I never know before is more fun and experience. When I first came to Maine. I never know how Maine would look like but exploring it little by little make it better. I want my community to be something people can come and explore even though it might be bad or good that leaves it up to each and everyone experience. So, I think this digital tech is something I would support.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is not only me who decides to promote or to ban the tech but it is our community that has to be aware of. The digital techs can be useful in the future if we make use of it and understanding the result thoroughly. However, this supporting and banning would end up in a democratic way where people in the community having equal rights to vote and select the tech that they think would suitable and making use of it. We should start solving the problem one by one step. Maybe start to raise awareness of the community status. How it is looking right now or was it better in the past, then we make a campaign to invite people to learn and understand how important that we should keep things better for us.
Sources
https://www.google.com/streetview/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonthaburi_Province
4 Ways Cities Are Using Smart Technology To Control Traffic Congestion
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