Continental Furniture International: Energy Telematics Project Report

This report evaluates the Energy Telematics project at Continental Furniture International (CFI), focusing on the implementation of new technologies to enhance its existing ERP system. The project aims to improve data capture, analysis, and storage through technologies like distributed ledger technology, cloud-based storage, and mobile data capture. The report highlights the importance of these technologies in improving the efficiency and accuracy of CFI's operations. It discusses the implementation framework, including the need for user involvement and data verification, and the advantages of the new technologies. The report also addresses the challenges and resistance to change, particularly from drivers regarding the truck tracking system. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of the project in modernizing CFI's operations and maintaining its competitive edge by improving timeliness, unambiguity, and portability of data within the organization.

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Abstract.
Evaluation and implementation of Energy Telematics project is basic and advantageous to the
CFI company financial economy, data related security, and improvement of the system
operations. Numerous advances can be made in enhancing the consistency, quality and cost
adequacy of the current ERP system (White Baker, 2009). Energy Telematics project will be
used in collecting exact and auspicious factual data using new technologies and data capturing
methods that will be involved in improving speed in computerized processes in CFI . To satisfy
its obligations, CFI has a need to use Data and Communication Technology (ICT) to fulfil its
information gathering, handling, filing and scattering framework processes so that the required
factual data can be produced and to achieve the best outcome at its processes. CFI being one of
the main organizations that uses ERP system to achieve its fundamental assignments
(Edmondson, 2010) .The ERP system which was brought to the company under the management
of Joel and his team has the need to be replaced by the Energy Telematics project managed by
the same team . Currently the office is taking care of its factual information filing and dispersal
through high limit servers, data warehouses and a dependable arranged frameworks. In addition,
its information accumulation has additionally been enhanced through the presentation of new
innovations, similar to PDAs for valuing information accumulation and GPSs for tracking the
tracks (Smith, 2016). The ERP system experiencing limited access to the CFI functionalities has
experienced huge challenges that the Joel team is trying to work on and change so that the CFI
system will be more accurate and efficient.
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Table of Contents
Abstract.......................................................................................................................................................2
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
New Technologies and data Capture in Energy Telematics.........................................................................5
Framework for Information.............................................................................................................7
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10
References.................................................................................................................................................11
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Introduction
In current years there has been tremendous increase and innovative use o f technology, this has
been seen as a innovative way of attracting customers and also a way of storing large amount of
data in our companies for future use(Griffith,2010). Use of current and new technologies to capture
and analyze data is one of ways to keep our customers close to us .Due to this CFI has decided to
upgrade its ERP system with Energy Telematics project .This project is aimed at implementing
new technologies to the company that will enhance high speed of capturing data ,analyzing and
storing . The project will include a truck tracking system that will be reporting to the
management issues related with the trucks.It is a creative way of maintaining the business niche
in the competitive world, however there are some who always do not accept change in
technology since they are afraid that it might prevent them from carrying out there private
activities(McDermott,2012). Like in this case the drivers were against implementation of the new
technology. The Energy Telamatic project include a software that will collect, analyze and
interpret information needed by the company .The is the most wonderfully software that can
be implemented to analyze and deliver information that is well transparent and acceptable.Also
it contains data tools e.g data warehouses that will store all information or data at use by the
company.
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New Technologies and data Capture in Energy Telematics.
Overview.
Organizations or people controlling technologically change should be regularly recognized as
both specialized engineers and implementers. When in doubt, many association create
innovation and after which they hands it off to clients, who are less talented but very educated
about their own particular regions of utilization(Laupacis,2009). Practically speaking, in this case
t Joel team are the engineers and the managers in the project . They should make sure that the
project is well implemented if agreed by the senior managers. More so if users association is
regularly not willing on obligation for the development at the point in then clear clarifications are
required to be given to them. The person responsible for execution paying little respect to
whether he or she created the association, the customer affiliation, or in some go-between the
position needs to plan the hand-off with the objectives that it is generally undetectable
(Goodman,2013) . This is, before the implementation process changes hands to sprinters ought
to have been running in parallel for quite a long time. Supervisor needs to control the viewpoints
and the necessities of the engineers and clients.
New Technologies
The following are the new Technologies to be implemented in Energy Telamatics project
Distributed ledger Technology(DIT)
DlT is defined as foot sole area of a few shared (P2P) innovations empowered by the internet,
for example, email, sharing music or other media documents, and web communication.
Notwithstanding, web based exchanges of advantage proprietorship have for quite some time
been subtle, as this requires guaranteeing that a benefit is just exchanged by its actual proprietor
and guaranteeing that the advantage can't be exchanged more than once(Aladwami,2010). The
advantage being referred to could be anything of value.it mainly involves recording and sharing
of data among multiple devices spread out in a given geographical area .
In this type of technology to be implemented by CFI the devices can be connected to each
other such every user can know what is happening in the other computer this can be referred us
as distributed ledger. The database being centrally located to be accessed by every body
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within the organization since every device is served from the same database this will make any
transaction of data or information within CFI be traceable and accountable.
Availability of cryptographic hash functions which encrypts every data within the DLt system.
This ensures high security of data since both the center and the receiver have keys that they can
use to decrypt data within in the system. This technology also goes hand in hand with the
following technologies.
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Framework for Information
Correspondingly as showcasing developers precisely designing Energy Telematics project with
a survey through which they will store information .The execution chiefs will build up an
iterative or friendly system, nearly like accordion system to control choices about when and how
to gather required data from all gatherings influenced by a users.Is termed"accordion-like" this is
because light is involved in the scan of data in respect to its process, and afterward another
dynamic time of inquiry cycle after cycle . What is critical about data is that whoever has it ,it
fluctuates at various phases of the execution procedure, however somebody must organize the
iterative work of social event it and administration usage.
When the system is designed should have some specific operations including the following.
 Should observe the current system and make sure everything in the new system is
different from the current system.
 The project system should pay more attention to the areas where the user requires to
make decision .create room for that.
 The system engineers should ask the current user what are they finding frustrating
about the current system and also should suggest ways to overcome the current
situation.
Verification and Validation of data
This are independent strategies that are used collectively to determine if an element, the
management, or a system meets some necessities and determinations to satisfy its expected
purpose. These are the elementary measures of a quality management system, for example. The
words "confirmation" and "approval" are now and again gone before with "free", showing that
the check and approval is to be performed by an uninvolved outsider. "Free check and approval"
can be abridged .Any system including Energy Telematic system in the current world should
implement the same technology for it to be modernized and to be more accurate .
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Cloud based and system configuration data storage (Orlikowski,2011)
Cloud is where information is remotely stored up, overseen, and backed up at any time from
internet. This will enable CFI management to keep up data on the web, with the aim that they can
retrieve data any time from anywhere. As published by a current investigation coordinated with
more than 800 business managers and customers around the globe shows the amount of
associations expanding high ground through high cloud gathering has moderately increased over
the latest couple of years and by 2017, individuals all in all cloud organizations is expected to be
more than $244 billion. Currently, they ought to explore a bit of the central focuses and
obstructions to Cloud Storage... Energy Telematics should be executed with this element to
upgrade steadiness of the organization and extends its system. The advantages of this
technology include the following
The advantages of this technology include the following
 Usability - All distributed stockpiling organizations reviewed in this subject have work
zone categories for Mac's and PC's. This empowers customers to move reports between
the dispersed databases and their neighborhood storing centers.
 Cost Savings Energy Telematics project can frequently diminish yearly working costs
by using cloud; appropriated capacity costs around 3 pennies for every gigabyte to store
data inside.( Burgelman,2013) Clients can see additional cost reserves since it doesn't
require internal vitality to store information remotely.
 Disaster Recovery It is exceptionally proposed that associations have an emergency
support configuration arranged by crisis team. Datawarehouses can be used as a back‐up
outline by associations by giving a minute copy of basic reports. These reports are
secured at a remote territory and can be gotten through a web associations.
Internet of things
Isn’t another idea but a technology as it may be this is because the utilization cases are
developing, empowered by versatility GPS, radio recurrence ID (RFID), sensor
innovation, e-inks and other new materials. Cases of utilization cases incorporate
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checking and controlling vitality utilization in structures, remotely observing work
locales, for example, digging and development zones for wellbeing and security, and
streamlining transportation and administration by following resources progressing
utilizing savvy vehicles or brilliant resource administration innovation .This technology
will help CFI improve its productivity.
Timeliness and Unambiguousness.
Since data is very important any system and organization it should be processed on time
and it should be validy.The system should have a high processing speed so that as soon
as any data is received by the system is quickly processed to final outcomes that are
useful to the organization.
Portability.
The system now days are portable meaning they can be transferred from one computer to
another with change in the source code. More so the systems should be able to be
compiled in any operating system e,g Linux or windows operating system
Word Recognition Technology
This is a new technology that is used in the conversion of images or pdf document into
machine text, characters that are encoded or intelligent word recognition
(Aladwani,2010). This technology has existed for many years but improved from time to
time. In order for Energy Telematics to achieve high significance the company must
spend a lot of resources in implementation of the project. (Edmondson,2010)The
technology is very much accurate and fast in terms of capturing data and comparison of
different types of data.
Mobile data Capture
With versatile information catch clients take pictures of reports utilizing a camera on
their cell phones. The picture information is sent to an information catch server that
concentrates the data put away in the picture and stores it (Smith,2016).
Mobile use to day is adaptable, versatile, and increases speed while altogether reducing
the working expenses related with data catch. It can be used adequately as the stage of a
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computerized first catch technique; information is entered on the gadget and moves
specifically into a back-end framework.
Hence, it might be perfect for littler, more contemporary contestants into the protection
business; it isn't fitting as a one-measure fits-all approach for customary safety net
providers. This technology will enhance high speed of transfer of information among
members when implemented in Energy Telematics(White-baker,2009).
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Case study.
The Joel’s’ team was court off-guard by the workers team since they had not involved the
drivers in the suggestion of installing a tracking system to the trucks to keep each record while
the track was moving. While collecting information the team could have involved the drivers
team in the session and explain to them the need of having the system and its importance to the
company. The team could also have explained to the drivers what the system could do .and what
could not be done by the system. Since the strike was a product of the drivers not understanding
how the system was working.
The great green challenge succeeded since it had full plan for the technology and it created
awareness to the people who were to use the system. The advantages of the system to the users
were clearly explained. Unlike in Energy Telematics where the drivers were ambushed that a
system will be placed in their trucks to record some data. Without them knowing what kind of
data will the system collect they strike. If this could be explained to them clearly they could have
never strike.
For Joel’s’ team to make there project not suspended they should call the drivers during any
meeting when things are brought in order then explained to them why the system is required in
the truck. What will the system be recording in the truck and where will be system be placed in
truck. This will make the driver accept the implementation of the system in the trucks.
Conclusion.
Before the implementation of any new technology a lot of research must be carried out on the
existing system so that the new system will have improved features of the old system. The new
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system should have totally different and new introduced features to improve and speed up the
process of data capture. The users of the system should be well notified about the features and
the importance of upgrading the system to avoid silly strikes. More so during the process of
system development the user should be involved so that the system will interact with the users
more easily since they participated in development.
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