WLAN industry map
Filed in archive Technology on July 7, 2003
Firstpartner has published a very carefully researched industry map of the WLAN area. It's a very good overview and gives a perfect overview about WLAN start-ups.
Two companies were totally new to me. They offer tools able to locate a customer with 1m accuracy in your WLAN covered area. Ekahau and Newbury Networks concentrate in this kind of service. It is a nice piece of technology, but I do not really understand, what is the business case behind this? What is the advantage to know a customer is in the lobby or in the conference room? WLAN networks aren't covering a big coherent area.....
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Response from:
John
(08/13/03 9:15am)
Response from:
guglielmo
(09/10/03 10:49am)
what is the business case behind this?
imagine virtual guide for visiting a museum or go shopping in a huge mall.
and what about the storage of goods in a huge parking and having the coordinates and the charasterics of the single item by a simple click, when you are near it!
i've beeen testing ekahau for two months and i,ve found really great.
imagine virtual guide for visiting a museum or go shopping in a huge mall.
and what about the storage of goods in a huge parking and having the coordinates and the charasterics of the single item by a simple click, when you are near it!
i've beeen testing ekahau for two months and i,ve found really great.
Response from:
TJ
(09/10/03 10:39pm)
Meanwhile I could understand the business case a bit better (http://www.tjacobi.com/archives/000208.htmlhttp://www.tjacobi.com/archives/000208.html">http://www.tjacobi.com/ar
chives/000208.html ).
A tour guide for a museum is an interesting application. Although there might be some flaws with it as this article points out http://www.technologyreview.com/register/register.asp?w=a&jfdl=Tel&flbbp=arhttp://www.technologyreview.com/register/register.asp?w=a&jfdl=Tel&flb
bp=articles/pfeiffer0903.asp.">http://www.technologyreview.com/registe
r/register.asp?w=a&jfdl=Tel&flbbp=ar
ticles/pfeiffer0903.asp.
However I have seen so many flashy gadgets for information for shoppers into malls, that have failed. I 'm not sure if this is a viable business. WiFi networks have usually a pretty small coverage area. For me it makes only limited sense to find out the location. But let's see ....
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Meanwhile I could understand the business case a bit better (http://www.tjacobi.com/archives/000208.html
chives/000208.html
A tour guide for a museum is an interesting application. Although there might be some flaws with it as this article points out http://www.technologyreview.com/register/register.asp?w=a&jfdl=Tel&flbbp=ar
bp=articles/pfeiffer0903.asp.">http://www.technologyreview.com/registe
r/register.asp?w=a&jfdl=Tel&flbbp=ar
ticles/pfeiffer0903.asp.
However I have seen so many flashy gadgets for information for shoppers into malls, that have failed. I 'm not sure if this is a viable business. WiFi networks have usually a pretty small coverage area. For me it makes only limited sense to find out the location. But let's see ....
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