“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better…stronger…faster.” — Six Million Dollar Man
Mobile enterprise applications will generate more than $66 billion in carrier revenue over the next five years, according to the latest report of Insight Research Group titled “The Mobile Workforce and Enterprise Applications 2007-2012“. By 2010, the majority of the firms will have a mobile workforce of between 26 percent and 50 percent, predicts Enterprise Mobility.
By the end of 2007, service revenues generated by mobile applications traversing wired and wireless networks in the US will reach just over $9 billion; by 2012, the value of services revenue supporting those applications is forecast to grow to nearly $13 billion, according to the Insight Research study.
The growth rate of occupations working outside of corporate offices is becoming higher compared to average employment growth. This triggered consolidation within the telecommunications industry towards delivering integrated wireless applications.
“Companies are shifting capital expenditures from infrastructure to service control, managed services, and applications. This shift in resource allocations will benefit enterprises looking to mobilize their traditional applications, so in the months ahead we see a real rush to develop mobile applications,” concludes the report.
In the recent past, workers became accustomed to the performance of local area networks (LANs) for voice and data communications as well as telecommunications systems. Over the next five years, most industries will move away from a fixed and location-centric work to a dispersed mobile world where workers are deployed in the location where they are most effective, the report said.
Corpus Christi’s WiFi Cloud uses an Automated Meter Reading application that automatically read utility meters throughout the 147 square miles of the city. Corpus Christi sold its network to Earthlink for about $5.5 million — and with it the long-term burden of maintaining and upgrading the system. “We didn’t want to be in the Internet service provider business,” says Skip Noe, Corpus Christi’s city manager.
Seattle-based NetMotion Wireless enables seamless roaming for police officers and firefighters over the Tropos Networks in Milpitas, California. It can handoff to the Cingular cellular system when out of range from the WiFi network.
Roam Secure was recently awarded a contract to provide Virginia with a Statewide Alerting Network (SWAN) for first responders, government officials and Virginia residents. SWAN will use RSIX, the Roam Secure Information Exchange, which collects and aggregates data from national and local news, weather, traffic and health alerting sources, and other Roam Secure alert systems nationwide. It then pushes information to any text-enabled device, phone or fax.
Applications like the CalPhoto Database, DMV records and photos, hazardous materials databases, and video surveillance are also coming on-line for city clouds. On-Net Surveillance Systems, Data911, Panasonic and Sony concentrate on wireless surveillence. Other municipal workers such as building inspectors, traffic engineers and code enforcement officers also have seamless roaming access to city and utility applications.
Accela Wireless has partnered with a number of companies to provide municipalities with wireless/WiMax solutions that allow building inspectors to take their workplace on the road. It uses a store-and-forward technology in which the home server periodically polls the client for new information.
Accela software was used by the City of New Orleans for gathering and tracking information about damaged buildings and structures. Armed with mobile devices running Accela Wireless, City inspectors are dispatched to the field to perform inspections in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes.
Accela GIS, built on the ArcIMS platform by ESRI, provides automated maps from a central database and gives staff direct access to view geographic representations of all land use, zoning, and infrastructure information associated with a parcel, permit, inspection, or plan.
Yellowbot maps from search. Twitter Vision maps live chat — and it’s going mobile. Local newspapers may go hyper-local, alt-weeklies could go social, and local tv may push video – like LiveCTY (your airport code here).
But can you break away? Sure. As long as there’s wireless net neutrality.
Intel’s Ultra Mobile Software Development includes support for C++, Java, .NET and Open Source.
Open Source Development Labs such as the Open Source Lab at Oregon State and other Developer Resources have the tools and expertise to create something completely different.
The tools are (mostly) free. You and a friend could do it. Just for the hell of it.
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