The project goal in 2007 and 2008 was to introduce leading-edge mobile devices to industrial waste inspection processes and to assist inspectors tracing vehicles by mobile devices. Mobile devices, Ultra Mobile Personal Computer (U.M.P.C), featured mobility, extensibility and fast computing speed. In 2007, 22 U.M.P.Cs were handed out to 6 major inspection agencies. The U.M.P.Cs equipped with built-in GPS chipset and 3.5G network interface cards which allowed users accessing industrial waste systems and retrieving information anywhere at anytime. Based on inspection requirement for tracking vehicles and patrolling at a certain area, the project team developed a tracking system on mobile devices which achieved dynamically tracking vehicles with built-in GPS to locate real-time position, the 3.5G network interface cards to retrieve positions of target vehicles every minute and the GIS platform to navigate to target vehicles with best route. Besides application on U.M.P.C., the Mobile Inspection website provided functions for looking up inspection projects, vehicles and companies profile and manifests. While conducting inspection on site, inspectors could take pictures and videos about inspection targets with web cam, and report then to the system. This year, the project held 12 training courses on the hardware and software systems, and a contest to encourage inspectors to get used to conducting inspection with mobile devices. Objective of the activities was to train more pilot users to become proficient trainers and to be able to assist other inspectors in mobile inspection era. This year, the project team developed mobile and real-time inspection system. In the past, the lead-time of paper-based process was 3 days, and the lead-time of mobile inspection process was 3 minutes. The dynamic routing and tracking function strengthen the ability of suspicious vehicle tracking. In the past, inspectors spent hours retrieving vehicles’ location based on cell phone and, and after equipped with U.M.P.C , inspectors retrieved vehicles’ locations in 5 minutes. Comparing to the first generation of mobile inspection system, the second generation system was more friendly and reliable, and the usage of second generation system was 43 times greater than the first generation system.

Inspection Process,Ultra Mobile Personal Computer