Using Appropriate hardware and software

Business
A- Banking, shopping, and buying and selling of goods and services
The first applications of ICT within banking were the use of mainframes, and later minicomputers, to process
data such as customer accounts, bank inventories, personnel records, and accounting packages.
Hardware: Computer, or an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM), Debit or Credit Card
Machine; (Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point Of Sale) system.
Software: Payment for goods or services by debit and credit cards
through the EFTPOS

B - Using documents as feedback in a utility billing system:

Hardware: Optical mark reader;

Software: Application program to read the utility bill

Science and Technology
A - Expert Systems
Hardware: Sensors in greenhouses (such as temperature, airhumidity, soil
moisture, light sensors).

Feedback loops in a central heating

control system:
Inputs:

Buttons - used to set the time and

heating options as well as override the
programmed timer.

B - Engineering and Design

Computer Aided Design (CAD); Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Hardware: Robots, Computers

Software: Programmes to design products, manage the robots