Usable as a day phone??? I think the Fat and Dirty distro is completely usable as a day phone... I should know (I use it every day with minimal changes... any issues I have I just reflash).
Ajay Kumar wrote: > > Somewhat similar utility to what Brian said: > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Brian Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> They are targeted at "hospitality and healthcare" industry. They are >> just WiFi phones, no GSM no Linux. >> Both of these apps have staff that are constantly moving around and >> don't have a desk phone. > > > Similar scenario, on which I am working right now, is "Disaster > Management" > and "Relief Operations" and supplementing these activities using the FR. > > >> Build an app that caters to these folks and adds together WiFi + GPS + >> GSM >> > For Disaster management, Sahana is a FOSS web application just made for > this > purpose which has been used in real world situations. Building a solution > that caters to the similar needs of Disaster reporting and data collection > could well be very effective and useful for such critical solutions, with > such a handy and powerful device. > >> >> For a hotel -- from the phone, check status of any room. Use the phone >> as a master key for cleaning staff. >> > The central Sahana server can keep track of On Field relief workers, > broadcast them instructions or alerts based on their GPS location. Like, > need to relocate and assign a different task ? > Or say, urgently address a situation at a nearby location e.g. a victim > who > needs immediate help. > > >> >> When a phone leaves the building (loses WiFi VOIP registration) switch >> to GSM and note it in the server. >> > This is a very kool thing to have, ideally we can communicate to the > Sahana > server over Wifi, GPRS, and SMS too. I wrote the SMS server side part, > which > i am still expanding. > So you could just have a daemon running, which sends the GPS location of > the > Field Reporter, via an SMS in a timely manner. Acting like a real time GPS > tracking for Sahana's system keeping track of all volunteers. > > Moreover, there is currently a new module in development, by Dominic on > the > Sahana project, which is the Dead Body Tracking and Disaster Victim > Identification (in short: DVI) for Sahana. This would include body search > on > the scene, one thing you would preferably carry a GPS-enabled handy data > input device and a hand full of labels with you .The module should be > enabled to mark found items on a scene map, e.g. a grid, that's what the > search team usually does. > The phone, could well be used for such a purpose, if it had a camera too, > it > could take pictures. And an app to generate Bar codes for each body. Later > it can be connected to a printer to print the bar codes and fix them on > the > bodies. > > Just few more possibilities to the list :-) > I am working on this project, which aims to use the FR as an effective > Disaster reporting tool for Sahana, a FOSS Disaster management system [ > www.sahana.lk]. > > GPS, Wifi are key hardware components to start off for this, and later we > can use the other modes like SMS, GPRS to exchange data between the Sahana > server and the phone using a client application. > > Providing the field volunteers with an easy to use, touch input based > phone > to do all the data activity saves a lot of hassles and increases effiency > thus saving time. An important *thing* in such situations.. > > > Regards, > > Ajay Kumar > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/2008.9-Basic-questions-tp1106131p1107120.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
