A new application for municipal wireless networks was demonstrated recently at Wireless Fleet 2007 in Miami‚Äö?Ñ?Ætelematics. A new platform called WITS enables hundreds of times more data than traditional cellular systems to be replicated from host databases to remote fleets.A new application for municipal wireless networks was demonstrated recently at Wireless Fleet 2007 in Miami‚Äö?Ñ?Ætelematics. A new platform called WITS enables hundreds of times more data than traditional cellular systems to be replicated from host databases to remote fleets.
The new platform, called WITS (Wireless Intelligent Telematics System) comes from Ezurio and features intelligent vehicle data logging monitors in an end-to-end system that secures and replicates data with a SQL host system. Designed for fleet management companies, it also allows corporate IT staffs to build applications.
According to a report on Electronicstalk:
“By using 802.11, either when parked at home, at a business location, or using increasingly ubiquitous Muni-Fi networks – data transfer becomes effectively free. Removing the cost of a mobile subscription enables a wide range of applications that have hitherto been nonviable from a cost perspective. The greater bandwidth available to short range wireless systems also allows far more data to be retrieved – typically factors of several hundred more is economic with a cellular system, further opening up new business opportunities.”
Emerging telematics applications promise to raise the stakes for municipal networks as drivers of local economies by enabling communications between corporate offices and workers in the field.
This announcement comes on the heels of the creation of Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s creation of an Intelligent Transportations Systems including the region’s automotive and transportation companies to explore traffic management applications using the auto industry’s 5.9 GHz frequency, as well as the initiative’s public wireless broadband network.
Click here to read the Electronicstalk story.
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