Travel Technology

Travel technology is a term used to describe applications of Information Technology (IT), or Information or communication Technology (ICT), in travel, tourism and hospitality industry. Travel technology may also be referred to as tourism technology or even hospitality automation. Travel technology was originally associated with the computer reservation system (CRS) of the airlines industry, but now is used more inclusively, incorporating the broader tourism sector as well as its subset the hospitality industry.  Travel technology may also be referred to as e-travel or e-tourism, in reference to "electronic travel" or "electronic tourism".

Travel technology includes many processes such as dynamic packaging which provide useful new options for consumers. Today the tour guide can be a GPS tour guide, and the guidebook could be an audio guide, pod guide or I-Tour, such as City audio guide. The biometric passport may also be included as travel technology in the broad sense.

Every day, travel technology is changing from Google Maps to Google Street view to the latest phones which allow you to use GPS anywhere on the planet. There really are no restrictions on what you can or should do while you are on your journeys whether they are for business or pleasure. Today people can book ticket just on an one button click. People don’t have to go to the station, stay in the line and wait for a long time to book their ticket.

Army Technology

Army technology, range of weapons, equipment, structures, and vehicles used specifically for the purpose of fighting. It includes the knowledge required to construct such technology, to employ it in combat, and to repair and replenish it. The technology of war may be divided into five categories. Offensive arms harm the enemy, while defensive weapons ward off offensive blows. Transportation technology moves soldiers and weaponry; communications coordinate the movements of armed forces; and sensors detect forces and guide weaponry.

Army technology is the collection of equipment, vehicles, structures and communication systems that are designed for use in warfare. It comprises the kinds of technology that are distinctly army in nature and not civilian in application, usually because they are impractical in civilian application or dangerous to use without appropriate army training.

It is common for army technology to have been researched and developed by scientists and engineers specifically for use by the armed forces. Many new technologies came as a result of the military funding of science. Weapons engineering is the design, development, testing and lifecycle management of military weapons and systems. It draws on the knowledge of several traditional engineering disciplines, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, electro-optics, aerospace engineering, materials engineering, and chemical engineering. There are a significant number of military inventions that are technologies originally developed and designed for military purposes, and which are now used by civilians with sometimes minor or no modifications at all.

Automation Technology

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist them with the muscular requirements of work, automation greatly decreases the need for human sensory and mental requirements as well. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy and in daily experience. Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing.

Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely by automated telephone switchboards and answering machines. Medical processes such as primary screening in electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of human genes, sera, cells, and tissues are carried out at much greater speed and accuracy by automated systems. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In general, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The main advantages of automation are:
•Replacing human operators in tasks that involve hard physical or monotonous work.
•Replacing humans in tasks done in dangerous environments.
•Performing tasks that are beyond human capabilities of size, weight, speed, endurance, etc.
•Economy improvement.

The main disadvantages of automation are:
•Technology limits.
•Unpredictable development costs.
•High initial cost.

Vacuum Technology

Vacuum technology, all processes and physical measurements carried out under conditions of below-normal atmospheric pressure. A process or physical measurement is generally performed in a vacuum for one of the following reasons: (1) to remove the constituents of the atmosphere that could cause a physical or chemical reaction during the process (2) to disturb an equilibrium condition that exists at normal room conditions, such as the removal of occluded or dissolved gas or volatile liquid from the bulk of material or desorption of gas from surfaces (3) to extend the distance that a particle must travel before it collides with another, thereby helping the particles in a process to move without collision between source and target (4) to reduce the number of molecular impacts per second, thus reducing chances of contamination of surfaces prepared in vacuum

The first major use of vacuum technology in industry occurred about 1900 in the manufacture of electric light bulbs. Requiring a vacuum for their operation followed, such as the various types of electron tube. Furthermore, it was discovered that certain processes carried out in a vacuum achieved either superior results or ends actually unattainable under normal atmospheric conditions. Such developments included the “blooming” of lens surfaces to increase the light transmission, the preparation of blood plasma for blood banks, and the production of reactive metals such as titanium.

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