http://forum.lowyat.net/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:11:39 +0800 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1411394 My budget is around 25k.<br /><br />So far, I&#39;ve found these cars to be in the price range.<br /><br />kia spectra 1.6(A) 2005 - 25k<br />- very high fc<br />- expensive spare part<br /><br />hyundai accent 1.5 (A) 2005 - 25k<br /><br />proton waja 1.6 (A) 2002 - 25k<br />- &#39;proton&#39; quality<br />- quite big car<br /><br />proton gen2 1.4 (A) 2004 - 26k<br />- I&#39;ve heard many bad things about gen2 from owners. <br /><br />proton savvy 1.2 (AMT) 2006 - 25k<br />- dont really like the design<br /><br />Which one should I choose? Any suggestion? Now I&#39;m leaning towards kia spectra, don&#39;t really know much about accent, anyone know any pros or cons of this car? I&#39;m kinda skeptical about buying 2nd hand proton though. <br /> AridEyes The Fast &amp; The Furious Tue, 04 May 2010 00:05:20 +0800 http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1265905 Hello all,<br /><br />I need some urgent help with my final year project.<br /><br />I&#39;m proposing a system to track the location of public buses, so that the time that will take for the buses to reach a destination could be estimated. GPS will be used for tracking purposes. The coordiante of the buses from the GPS will be relayed to a command centre every few minutes probably via GPRS. <br />Users wanting to know when a bus will reach a station (for example if they are waiting for the bus at a bus stop) will only need to send an SMS to the command centre and an automated reply will be sent accordingly. This system will be implemented in Java. <br /><br /><br />1) Does anyone know any hardware shops that sells GPS devices? I&#39;m not looking for GPS navigator, but GPS tracker, or any GPS unit or module that can transmit data out preferably via GPRS. <br /><br />2) The GPS will need to transmit bus locations via GPRS to a server/command centre. I&#39;m not sure how I&#39;m supposed to implement this. Do I need a static IP, and send all data from the GPS to this IP? Any help here would be appreciated. <br /><br />3) I&#39;m planning to create an interface where the location of the buses will also be displayed on a map. Anyone has any suggestions what kind of map I can use? I don&#39;t think google maps will suit this system, because its not a web based system. <br /><br />4) One issue with this project is the accuraty of estimation of bus arrival. I have to take into account traffic conditions, weather in some cases, traffic light and so on. I&#39;m not really sure on how to do this, because they vary from day to day (or time of year). Any ideas on how to tackle this issue?<br /><br />5) I will be following scrum development methodology (agile). Is there anyone here used this development methodology before? Any materials or reference material that anyone would want to share?<br /><br /><br />Has anyone done this sort of project before? I could really use some guidance for this project, pretty lost at the moment.<br /><br />Thank you, and sorry for the long read. AridEyes Codemasters Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:49:12 +0800