NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE ENTERPRISE 09/15/04 Today's focus: Location, location, location!
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * AeroScout extends location-tracking system * Links related to Wireless in the Enterprise * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Meru Networks Beyond Bandwidth: Managing Capacity in WLAN Systems The requirement to support critical applications, including voice and other time-bounded traffic, has proved to be a powerful incentive for creative thinking in WiFi. We have now shifted our thinking from the basics of RF, where we attempt to optimize bandwidth, to the coordinated management of capacity in pervasive WLAN deployments. Click Here to receive a paper written by FarPoint Group on WLAN capacity. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81181 _______________________________________________________________ CHECK OUT NW FUSION'S NEW WHITE PAPER LIBRARY NW Fusion's White Paper Library was recently re-launched with new features and improved capabilities! Sort NW Fusion's library of white papers by Date and Vendor, view white papers by TECHNCIAL CATEGORY, mouse over white paper descriptions and take advantage of our IMPROVED white paper search engine. CLICK HERE: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=81155 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Location, location, location! By Joanie Wexler This week, the company formerly known as Bluesoft is announcing that it has extended its real-time location system to combine real-time and passive location-tracking applications onto a single wireless infrastructure. The addition of the "Exciter" component to AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based radio frequency identification (RFID) platform enables items to be tracked as they pass through a particular "choke point," such as a gate, doorway, or particular section of a shop floor, to help manage various processes or conserve an RFID tag's battery life, says Andris Berzins, vice president of marketing and business development. Competitor WhereNet offers a similar capability with its WherePort II and Where Tag II RFID products. Berzins describes a couple of scenarios where the combination of real-time and passive RFID on a combined network could be useful: * Say you have a distribution center with trucks arriving and ��checking in at a gate with a guard, who looks up the vehicle's ��particulars and then instructs the driver where to park and ��unload - a time-consuming process. Instead, you could have a passive RFID Exciter (or Where Tag II) tag in the truck that switches on upon arrival and transmits the tag ID with gate information to a server, which matches it to information about the truck at hand in an application. The application then sends back display information directing the driver about where to go, eliminating the interaction time between guard and driver. However, should the truck go missing outside the distribution yard, the RTLS component kicks in for location tracking. * In a grocery store, you might want the RTLS tag on a shopping ��cart to transmit frequently for business intelligence purposes - ��to understand store traffic patterns and perhaps aid in ��merchandising and store layout decisions. However, when the cart ��heads for the parking lot where it might sit idle for a number ��of hours, you might wish the battery on the RFID tag to be ��turned off to preserve the life of the tag. So when the cart ��exits the door (a "choke point"), the tag could be switched off. There are also applications for combined RTLS and passive RFID in healthcare, as equipment passes from one facility to another and ends up lost or even stolen, Berzins says. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Legoland uses both RFID, Wi-Fi to find lost kids Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 04/26/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwir586 Sybase upgrades PowerBuilder, plots RFID move IDG News Service, 08/16/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0816sybase.html Inside the GPS Coke can Network World Layer 8, 08/02/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/005828.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Joanie Wexler Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. 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