Vast arrays of technologies and applications have been developing for nearly twenty five years.
Not only have people and businesses become accustomed to using devices and data in new different ways, the manufacturer of devices, the middleware/software developers, and the communications companies have been increasing the offerings and capabilities of the available goods and services.
The listed below give some of the areas that are taking advantages of wireless application. It is to give an idea of what is currently happening.
1. Portable work devices. Being seen as UPS drivers’ tracking systems.
2. Transportation management. Trucking companies utilities laptop computer systems to monitor, track and manage every aspect of their drives’ and vehicles’ daily activities.
3. GPS and mapping services. Global positioning devices let us to know, through satellite tracking, where a devise is located.
4. Personal vehicle system
5. Inventory and ordering system
6. Banking and finance. Banks and other financial institutions are leading the way in offering services available through wireless devices as well as sending fund transfers through wireless network.
7. Utilities. For many years the power companies, phone companies and cable providers have used wireless devices both to analyze on site problem and also to communicate with centralized information sources.
8. Toll roads. Driving through toll booths using the ‘e-lanes’ to save times by paying tolls through a wireless communications.
9. Science. Field work and laboratory work can now combine notes, GPS data, and computational power a well as instrumental data. All through wireless network.
10. PDA applications
11. Military
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