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FEATURED TOPICDigital Transition -The term "Digital Transition" describes the process all organizations must go through in the 21st Century, as they leverage new technologies that provide new options for Applications, Equipment, Processes, and Networks that make them more effective. In contrast, the term "Municipal Wireless" is limiting. It puts the network technology ahead of the application and process changes that drive the business case. ORIENTATION |
« On the Future of Municipal Wireless | Weblog | Indiana: Town Interested in Broadband » Location Based ServicesDaily Wireless Check out this posting on Daily Wireless, under the title Meetro Location Net, posted on Friday, August 5. Sam Churchill provides a good overview of new location-based services that will benefit and take advantage of Wi Fi municipal networks. Meetro, a new location-based community building software available for free download at this site, uses WiFi signals to discover the general location of a user without GPS. Using this service, city residents are visually shown exactly who's in their vicinity and the general interests they share. This almost feels like magic to me. If you've seen the magic map Harry Potter used in The Prisoner of Azkaban you will note the similarities. Skyhook Wireless is on the same track - this terrestial substitute for GPS takes advantage of a database of over 1.5 million land-based access points to pinpoint a Wi Fi device to within 20-40 meters. The Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) initially is being rolled out in 25 metropolitan areas. In a similar approach, Herecast is a Wi Fi Location-Based Positioning System that is under development. Herecast software is in testing, and some of the earliest users are already contributing information. The company is mainly interested in attracting "early adopters" and developers who want to create the first location-based services. The Daily Wireless article lists a variety of other location-based services for you to check out. This is a good way to wade into this fascinating new service that will take advantage of wireless broadband networks. Posted on August 06, 2005 at 09:31 AM CommentsPost a commentTrackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: |
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