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In the article “ IoT based Smart Parking Systems for Smart Cities”, hiOTron.com (n.d), it claims that it is crucial to create an automated smart parking management system. It was supported by recent research that, “30% of the traffic in urban areas is generated by drivers and motorists looking for parking spaces”. Smart Parking uses sensors instruments to identify the occupancy of the parking lots, and designed to transmit scanned data to the database in real-time. Hence drivers will be able to identify if there is an available parking slot through the app. It can be adopted in most urban parking spaces and managed by a programmable logic controller (PLC). However, it states that there will be many challenges such as high upfront costs, enforcement and inconvenience for tourists. Still, the benefits such as improved traffic and reduced management cost are worth the challenge.  Despite challenges such as connection issue, smart parking system is necessary in order to reduce traffic ...

  Dear Professor Blackstone, My name is Tobias Hanputra, a student from your effective communication class. I have graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a diploma in Green building and sustainability back in year 2018. As a child, I spent most of my time playing video games. One of my favorite video games is Minecraft. It is a game where you must acquire the available resources to build creative structures based on your imagination. I have always been curious on what it takes to design and build a building, leading to my interest in Sustainable infrastructure engineering (Building services) course. One of my strength is that I convey a strong sense of confidence in myself at all times. Confidence is one of the key aspects in communication as it allows you to be able to speak concisely with others, allowing the other parties to develop faith and trust in what you said and promised. Despite being confident, I tend to speak in a monotone voice when communicating with othe...

“Employers identify communication as one of the basic competencies every graduate should have, asserting that the ability to communicate is valuable for obtaining employment and maintaining successful job performance.” Sherwyn Morreale, Michael Osborn & Judy Pearson, Professors of Communication (2000) Explanation: Being able to communicate effectively are highly essential in order to deliver/receive the correct messages. Hence, employees will be able to communicate well with each other and work towards the same goal.