Introduction
With the popularity of tablets, many organizations are beginning to think about how to use this slate-style computer in business environments to enhance their competitiveness, such as golf club. Golf club usually has a vast area to design various fairways so as to provide an engaging or challenging golfing experience for its members and visitors. Therefore, providing golf cart is the necessary service to allow golfers to enjoy the game by minimizing travel distance while playing around.
A golf cart can do more than transporting golfers and their golf clubs around a golf course. In fact, it can be a smart vehicle through implementing rugged tablet to provide navigation, scoring, promotional advertising and other features. Golf club could conduct large data analysis to make more suitable promotions by leveraging on the vehicle mount tablet to collect each golfer's data.
It could also cooperate with the stores around the club (e.g. hotel, restaurant, and golf-related shop) to play their ads, thus reducing the cost of purchasing hardware. On the other hand, golf club could benefit from such remote mobile management to supervise the fleet in a more immediate way while providing better services for its golfers.
Project Requirement
A golf club group has a number of golf courses in Asia. The company was planning to develop an APP for its golf cart in order to increase added value and optimizing operational efficiency. Since the hardware platform plays a key role to ensure that the APP can operate smoothly with long-term stability, the company needed to deploy a strong and sturdy tablet for each golf cart.
The APP would provide several functions such as navigating the fairway, recording the golfers' score and ball position for each hole, and playing promotional activities or ads. The tablet has to support open Operating System for developers to easily design the system. Its form factor must be greater than six inches so that displaying diverse information won’t be a problem at all.
Because the tablet is desired to be operated outdoors for a long period of time, rugged specifications are basic requirements for this project, including extended temperature operation, long battery life, waterproof and dust-proof, drop resistance, high lumen, low power consumption, etc.
