Another Nigerian designs road traffic mobile app
Another Nigerian designs road traffic mobile app
Another Nigerian designs road traffic mobile app Necessity is the mother of invention. That could be a better way to describe new mobile developments in Nigeria today. Almost in quick successions, we have, for the past one year constantly featured Nigerians who invented innovative mobile applications, gadgets and devices out of the frustrations they have either experienced as Africans or observed being part of this continent. jonnywaka-app From social media sites to mobile devices, apps and tabs, the list of Nigerians joining the history books seems to be unending. Just as we were celebrating a bamboo tablet from a Nigerian inventor on this page last week, we were also awaken, almost immediately after, with the info of another Nigerian, Dele Oluwole who has made good use of the chaotic traffic situation in Africa,particularly Nigeria to create an app. Why this app Although, Oluwole said he has not been parmanent in the country for the past ten years sourjouning Denmark, Great Britain and New Zealand, traffic reports bachome were however frustrating and immediately evoked the desire to think home. He created a mobile application called JonnyWaka 316, meant to help improve road user experience, safe, efficient road management and reduction of road hazards. Where it can work Developed for road users in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja in Nigeria, and also Accra roads in Ghana, Oluwole said JonnyWaka is a FREE mobile app to download. The app is specifically designed to help users avoid incidents like traffic jams, armed robbery, flood, among other road hazards. Beneficiaries Apart from road users who can use this app to plan their day, it was also said to be designed to help authorities like Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC and the Nigerian police to monitor and report traffic situations, track road crimes and armed robberies. The app also gives road users who have downloaded it the opportunity to help the administrators upload traffic incidents like accidents, flood and armed robberies on the site. With this, the Traffic Report screen is then updated automatically in less than 60 seconds for everyone to see and the incidents are then marked on the road, route, and map showing the precise locations. There is also a provision on the app site, for users to take a shot of accident scenes and upload immediately to help people avoid those roads/routes. -
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Another Nigerian designs road traffic mobile app Necessity is the mother of invention. That could be a better way to describe new mobile developments in Nigeria today. Almost in quick successions, we have, for the past one year constantly featured Nigerians who invented innovative mobile applications, gadgets and devices out of the frustrations they have either experienced as Africans or observed being part of this continent. jonnywaka-app From social media sites to mobile devices, apps and tabs, the list of Nigerians joining the history books seems to be unending. Just as we were celebrating a bamboo tablet from a Nigerian inventor on this page last week, we were also awaken, almost immediately after, with the info of another Nigerian, Dele Oluwole who has made good use of the chaotic traffic situation in Africa,particularly Nigeria to create an app. Why this app Although, Oluwole said he has not been parmanent in the country for the past ten years sourjouning Denmark, Great Britain and New Zealand, traffic reports bachome were however frustrating and immediately evoked the desire to think home. He created a mobile application called JonnyWaka 316, meant to help improve road user experience, safe, efficient road management and reduction of road hazards. Where it can work Developed for road users in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja in Nigeria, and also Accra roads in Ghana, Oluwole said JonnyWaka is a FREE mobile app to download. The app is specifically designed to help users avoid incidents like traffic jams, armed robbery, flood, among other road hazards. Beneficiaries Apart from road users who can use this app to plan their day, it was also said to be designed to help authorities like Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC and the Nigerian police to monitor and report traffic situations, track road crimes and armed robberies. The app also gives road users who have downloaded it the opportunity to help the administrators upload traffic incidents like accidents, flood and armed robberies on the site. With this, the Traffic Report screen is then updated automatically in less than 60 seconds for everyone to see and the incidents are then marked on the road, route, and map showing the precise locations. There is also a provision on the app site, for users to take a shot of accident scenes and upload immediately to help people avoid those roads/routes. -
Another Nigerian designs road traffic mobile app
By Prince Osuagwu
Necessity is the mother of invention. That could be a better way to describe new mobile developments in Nigeria today. Almost in quick successions, we have, for the past one year constantly featured Nigerians who invented innovative mobile applications, gadgets and devices out of the frustrations they have either experienced as Africans or observed being part of this continent.
From social media sites to mobile devices, apps and tabs, the list of Nigerians joining the history books seems to be unending.
Just as we were celebrating a bamboo tablet from a Nigerian inventor on this page last week, we were also awaken, almost immediately after, with the info of another Nigerian, Dele Oluwole who has made good use of the chaotic traffic situation in Africa,particularly Nigeria to create an app.
Why this app Although, Oluwole said he has not been parmanent in the country for the past ten years sourjouning Denmark, Great Britain and New Zealand, traffic reports bachome were however frustrating and immediately evoked the desire to think home. He created a mobile application called JonnyWaka 316, meant to help improve road user experience, safe, efficient road management and reduction of road hazards.
Where it can work
Developed for road users in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja in Nigeria, and also Accra roads in Ghana, Oluwole said JonnyWaka is a FREE mobile app to download. The app is specifically designed to help users avoid incidents like traffic jams, armed robbery, flood, among other road hazards.
Beneficiaries
Apart from road users who can use this app to plan their day, it was also said to be designed to help authorities like Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC and the Nigerian police to monitor and report traffic situations, track road crimes and armed robberies.
The app also gives road users who have downloaded it the opportunity to help the administrators upload traffic incidents like accidents, flood and armed robberies on the site.
With this, the Traffic Report screen is then updated automatically in less than 60 seconds for everyone to see and the incidents are then marked on the road, route, and map showing the precise locations.
There is also a provision on the app site, for users to take a shot of accident scenes and upload immediately to help people avoid those roads/routes.
Necessity is the mother of invention. That could be a better way to describe new mobile developments in Nigeria today. Almost in quick successions, we have, for the past one year constantly featured Nigerians who invented innovative mobile applications, gadgets and devices out of the frustrations they have either experienced as Africans or observed being part of this continent.
From social media sites to mobile devices, apps and tabs, the list of Nigerians joining the history books seems to be unending.
Just as we were celebrating a bamboo tablet from a Nigerian inventor on this page last week, we were also awaken, almost immediately after, with the info of another Nigerian, Dele Oluwole who has made good use of the chaotic traffic situation in Africa,particularly Nigeria to create an app.
Why this app Although, Oluwole said he has not been parmanent in the country for the past ten years sourjouning Denmark, Great Britain and New Zealand, traffic reports bachome were however frustrating and immediately evoked the desire to think home. He created a mobile application called JonnyWaka 316, meant to help improve road user experience, safe, efficient road management and reduction of road hazards.
Where it can work
Developed for road users in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja in Nigeria, and also Accra roads in Ghana, Oluwole said JonnyWaka is a FREE mobile app to download. The app is specifically designed to help users avoid incidents like traffic jams, armed robbery, flood, among other road hazards.
Beneficiaries
Apart from road users who can use this app to plan their day, it was also said to be designed to help authorities like Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corp, FRSC and the Nigerian police to monitor and report traffic situations, track road crimes and armed robberies.
The app also gives road users who have downloaded it the opportunity to help the administrators upload traffic incidents like accidents, flood and armed robberies on the site.
With this, the Traffic Report screen is then updated automatically in less than 60 seconds for everyone to see and the incidents are then marked on the road, route, and map showing the precise locations.
There is also a provision on the app site, for users to take a shot of accident scenes and upload immediately to help people avoid those roads/routes.
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Unilorin dons invent biometric machine
Ilorin
- A team of engineers at the University of Ilorin has produced a
prototype biometric machine that will adequately recognise physical
features of black people, the team leader, Prof. Tunji Ibiyemi said.
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
Ibiyemi of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of the university, disclosed this to newsmen on Thursday in Ilorin.
He said that the breakthrough would help to improve in biometric identification of black people.
He said with the use of local content, the researchers have been able to unravel the challenge of the inability of the imported biometric machine to adequately recognise physical features of black people.
According to him, imported solutions to the challenges of impersonation, economic fraud, multiple voting, examination malpractices, election rigging, and security challenges do not work optimally among black people.
He said that such foreign devices were better fitted among white people, saying: “what we have just produced works better for blacks.”
The don said that lack of local content in the making of the machines used for vital national assignments explained why government’s efforts on various national projects had not yielded the desired results.
The national projects, he said, included e-voting, national identity card scheme, security intelligence on criminal citizens.
Ibiyemi, whose research effort was sponsored by the World Bank-assisted Science and Technology Education Post-Basic (Step-B) Project, claimed that Europeans or Chinese people could use their technology for better identification.
“When I was in Britain, any black person could pick any of his friend’s identity card and go anywhere across the country unfettered.
“Those working at the airports will confirm to you that you need local people to identify one another.
“Most imported machines don’t recognise tribal marks. These machines raise alarm when they see a masked face.
“But what we have produced can recognise tribal marks, faces that are masked and faces that are disguised using cosmetics,” he said.
Ibiyemi said that the machine could identify human face, human iris, finger prints, toe prints and sole prints, speaker and speech recognition, signature and hand writing verification.
The don said that the machine was cost effective when compared to the foreign device and produced sharper and clearer images than the latter. (NAN)
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