Light Reading reports that the recent MuniWireless SV 2006 conference featured applications like fleet monitoring, to increase cost savings and productivity.
John Woronczuk, VP of Marketing and Business Development for Netistix, explained how cities can take advantage of their wireless infrastructures to monitor vehicles for police, public safety and municipal utilities.
“Our customers normally find that the payback period for a fleet monitoring system is six to nine months if they need to install their own dedicated WiFi infrastructure,” says Woronczuk. “When operating the FleetPulse wireless fleet monitoring solution under the wireless fabric of an existing or planned metro WiFi project, the payback is even shorter.”
“Maintaining and managing a municipal fleet can represent a significant expense for a city,” explains Woronczuk. “By using a wireless fleet monitoring system, a city can cut those costs and increase efficiencies.”
Accela Wireless is a wireless application developer that provides municipalities with wireless/WiMax applications that, for example, allow building inspectors to take their workplace on the road. It uses a store-and-forward technology in which the server periodically polls the client for new information.
The MuniWireless 2006: Silicon Valley conference was held June 19-21 in Santa Clara California.
One of the best new publications for broadband wireless applications appears to be Killerapp.com (about). It features KillerApp Sightings, KillerApp Research and a Comprehensive Directory of Applications.
It’s a sister publication to Broadband Properties Magazine (past issues), also a terrific publication that’s under appreciated by many wifi blogs and competing magazines. It’s available in PDF format. Articles such as Municipal Wireless Deployment: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (pdf) seem truly helpful and not just vendor hype.
The NY Times has a Special Network Edition of Circuits that describes how networked computing is allowing workers to work differently. In the wireless city.
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