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The Wonders of Wireless
Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.
By far the most proliferating technology on the planet is wireless. From PDAs to laptops, networks to GPS, wireless has woven itself into the fabric of our day-to-day lives. Wireless is a ubiquitous technology that plays as well in the consumer world as it does in business. If it has to do with communications, then wireless probably has an application.
Today wireless technologies are widely used in:
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Laptops (wireless modems)
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Cell phones and PDAs
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Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags
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Wireless LANs, and more.
Wireless LANs are growing at a rapid rate throughout the corporate world, mostly due to their ease of deployment and impressive savings over cabled networks. Being able to set up access to a LAN or WAN without cables is a very attractive proposition to users and IT alike. From simple workstations to ATMs, wireless makes rapid deployment a snap.
Another emerging use of wireless technologies is RFID. RFID tags allow identification data to be transmitted to a remote receiver. It has huge implications in industries such as retail and shipping. But the application of RFID doesn’t stop there. For example Marriott is using RFID to identify the movement of customers during their stay via RFID tags on room keys. Hoboken, New Jersey, is using RFID …
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