UPnP-Based Real Time In Situ Carpool System

Abstract

Nowadays several wireless technologies have been deployed and getting universal. Therefore it is time to develop human oriented and decent network services for mobile devices so that the applications of wireless technology can be much more significant. On top of network infrastructure, UPnP is an architecture that enables zero-configuration networking and automatic discovery mechanism to bridge the network and devices held by people for service provision. In this paper, we propose a real time and in situ carpool system which is developed by adopting UPnP mechanism. This service is very helpful for the transportation arrangement of commuters in the city with heavy traffic like Taipei. People with this service can subscribe the carpool service on intermediary server before taking the public transportation. The server, which is equipped on the conveyance, will match the commuters, who are on the same conveyance, and to group them for carpool in accordance with their subscription, such as destinations, and notify them. The proposed system can also be networked together for inter-conveyance grouping to achieve more global applications. In addition, the proposed system is planned to integrate with the public transportation dispatching system so that the public conveyance, like bus or taxi, can pick up the grouped people in time.