NU12#11 - What pisses you off at your business site? by Rhea Jardin

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Subject: NU12#11 - What pisses you off at your business site? by Rhea Jardin

                Our office is located at the 20^th floor of The Peak Building in Salcedo Village, Makati. The building has 22 commercial and 35 residential floors situated at opposite sides of the building. When the country began with the call center industry and became the call center capital of the world, our office building became one of the cribs of the call center industry. About six (6) floors where occupied by different call center companies with 24-hour operation and each company have a huge number of agents. With this, the elevators in our building are always congested by call center agents, some of which are very loud and annoying that pisses some of the tenants in the building. In worst cases when one (1) of the three (3) elevators is down, you will need to wait for two (2) round trips on the elevator before you  can have the chance to ride on it.

                To solve this problem I would suggest that, with the huge number of employees that they have, call center companies should be allocated a business space on the ground floor or on the first few floors of a building structure. In this way, they would seldom need to ride the elevator in going to their respective offices and would lessen the congestion that they cause on elevators. It would also improve their health and wellness if they use the stairs to climb 2 or 3 floors since most of them are confined to their posts the whole time and some are even heavy smokers. 4

NU12#9 - Butt Fill (reusable cigarette butts) by Rhea Jardin

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Subject: NU12#9 - Butt Fill (reusable cigarette butts) by Rhea Jardin

         Smoking is dangerous to your health, as what is printed on cigarette packaging. It is not only dangerous to our health, but the cigarette butts that are being thrown out everywhere by smokers are dangerous to our environment. The butts contain toxins and other chemicals that can be released in the environment, particularly in our water system. Butt Fill, a reusable cigarette butt, could help solve the problem in cigarette butt disposal. The Butt Fill is quite similar with the traditional pipe except that it is designed particularly for cigarettes only. The manufacturers of cigarettes should produce cigarettes that have no butts. These no-butts cigarettes will be inserted in the Butt Fill and smokers will be able to consume the cigarette to the fullest, thus no butts will be left out to be thrown elsewhere. The Butt Fill could be reuse over and over again, and the fibrous materials inside it that traps tar and other toxins can be refill or replaced after 2 or 3 years depending on how frequent the smoker uses it. 3

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Subject: NU12#8 - Hanging Plants on Pedestrian Overpass by Rhea Jardin

    Passing through the pedestrian overpasses in Crossing, Ortigas and North EDSA is like an early sacrifice for the Lenten season because of the high stairs with no escalators provided for pedestrians, and the heat that you will get from the sun since the overpass has no shed. I would suggest that the government should build shed on these pedestrian overpasses and add hanging plants and vines on top of the shed and within the surroundings of the overpass. The plant would shield the pedestrians from the heat of the sun and at the same time would promote fresh air that the passersby would inhale, instead of the pollution, as they grasp their breath from going through the high stairs. This could also be helpful in the preservation of our environment and the promotion of green eco living. 3

NU12 - Tighter hospital security measures by Rhea Jardin

               With the recent news about a newborn baby that was kidnapped from the hospital by a false doctor, I believe that it's about time that hospitals adopt a new security measure or facility for the benefit of both the patient and the institution itself.

                Each hospital should place an identification scanner in each ward and private room where only nurses, doctors and authorized hospital staff are given access to these rooms by the use of the barcode in their respective ID cards. Each patient however will also be given one access card for their companion's use but will be recalled and deactivated once the patient is discharged from the hospital. All usage of access card by patients and hospital personnel will be recorded in the hospital's computer system in order to track down the activity of each person which will be very useful in cases where investigations are to be conducted, like for instance the recent baby-napping from a local hospital.

Furthermore, the hospital should innovate their patient tag by changing it to a metal bracelet type with a homing detector device. The hospital would then place a scanner in all of its entrance and exit doors. This patient tag will alarm if the patient passes through all these doors in cases where the patient is not yet authorized by the hospital to leave the premises. This way abduction or kidnapping of babies would be prevented as well as patients who would sneak out of the hospital without settling their obligations first.4

NU12 #4 - Anti-Carnapping/Theft Stunner by Rhea G. Jardin

                We all know that carnapping is very rampant in our society. If your car is not stolen, most of the times the valuable items or even parts of your car will be the one stolen. Although most of the cars already have sirens or alarms attached to them, some thief and carnappers still have ways of disarming them. And the only thing that these alarms could do is to create very loud and annoying sounds but in reality, it does not have a way of capturing those criminals. If ever that the criminals are apprehended, your cars have already been sold and could no longer retrieved.

                With these in mind, I thought of having an anti-carnapping/theft stunner. This device will be quite similar to the alarms that we attach to our cars for protection which we can switch on or off. Although this device does not come only with the loud sounds but will also give a stunning effect that would temporarily paralyzes the criminal just in time for the law enforcers to apprehend the suspect and, once and for all, detain them.4

                The device will be situated in the door handle of your car which is not visible to the thief. As soon as he touches the door handle to unlock it, he will be stunned, or a low voltage electric shock will be released, just enough to have him paralyze for a few minutes. As soon as this happens, you can turn off the device for your safety and could call the enforcers for immediate assistance. In this way, the criminals would finally be apprehended and detained so as not to commit another crime, and at the same time your car is safe.

                The device could also be place on different parts of your car where the thief could possibly use to gain access like the windshield, trunk, hood, and even on the mug wheels of your vehicles.

NU 12#3 - Shopper's Assistant by Rhea G. Jardin

                Having a big family of four kids, it has been part of my routine to visit the grocery store at least thrice a month. I normally explore in different grocery stores in order to get the best value for my money and to eventually save more. Although I'm already quite familiar with the location of most of the products that I usually buy, I still get lost at the store sometimes. Another thing that I find it hard in the grocery store is the long queue in the counter particularly during paydays.

                With these scenarios, a shopper's assistant could be useful for consumers especially the busy working mothers like me. The shopper's assistant is a device that will be attached to every grocery cart. It is a scanner device with a GPS that serves as a locator of the products that you need to buy and at the same time the exact location of the customer in the grocery store.  

                What the customer needs to do is to scan every item that she buys using the device. The device will not only show the price of the product but will also include the item in the customer's shopping list. The customer could check her running bill or balance anytime during the course of her shopping. This would help the customer in budgeting their grocery needs. The device is connected to the main frame of the store and all information is stored on the memory for easy validation during checkout. A huge scanner is situated at the checkout in order to do a final scanning of all the grocery items simultaneously to detect if there are items that are left unscanned by the customer. This procedure could lessen the long queue in the counter since all data are already stored in the system and the only thing to do is to pay the final bill.

                Another function of the shopper's assistant would be to help the customer know the exact location of a particular product that she needs. This would be very useful for people who are always in hurry and needs to do the shopping at a lesser time.  Additionally, this would avoid unnecessary items that could be bought by the customers while roaming around the whole grocery area.

                The shopper's assistant will also tell the customer her exact location in the grocery store. This would be very useful in the event that the customer decides to checkout and would want to know the easiest route to the counter. It is also helpful in finding your way out in emergency situations like fire or commotion. 3