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The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.
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Field service organizations face the challenge of how to tame the flow of the massive amounts of data collected, from sources including GPS and vehicle-tracking systems, telematics, fleet management and workforce management, and put it to good use. This article, featured in Business 2 Community, explores “Taking Control of Your Field Service Data.” Read Original Content
A team of U.K. army reserve engineers utilized GPS technology to locate the site of a World War II airplane brought down by enemy fire in England in 1940. The group also used laser scanners to capture all of the detail of the site as it was being excavated. Read Original Content
The Washington State Department of Transportation is testing hybrid RFID technology that enables commuters to make bridge or high-occupancy toll lane payments via their mobile phone. Read Original Content
While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect. To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.
According to a report from Markets and Markets, the global retail automation market is predicted to reach up to $973.67 billion by 2018, at a compound annual growth rate of 13.09 percent from 2013 to 2018. Read Original Content
New connected technologies, such as GIS, GPS, and RFID, are providing the construction industry more data than in the past and allowing companies to collect large and complex data sets that provide new value. Read Original Content
Rugged notepad devices were loaned by Juniper Systems to officials in Colorado to be used for disaster management and damage assessment after the recent flooding. Read Original Content
GEO Business 2014, a new geospatial event incorporating an international trade exhibition, conference, and a hands-on workshop and demonstration program, will be held in London May 28-29, 2014. Read Original Content
Records storage and information management firm Recall has been granted a patent for its data protection services asset management process powered by RFID. Read Original Content
Major league baseball plans to utilize Apple’s iOS 7 location technology, iBeacon, which uses a low-energy variant of Bluetooth wireless technology to pick up data from sensors. A 2014 update to MLB's At the Ballpark app will use the iBeacon feature to guide sports fans as they pass by low-power Bluetooth transmitters in the stadium. Read Original Content
Compass4Colorado is a collaborative effort to make high-tech GIS and mapping capabilities available at little or no cost to organizations involved in the recovery activities related to the devastating Colorado floods. Read Original Content
The Verigenics division of NewAge Industries has developed an RFID tracking system that withstands gamma irradiation. The system tracks and identifies objects and devices used in the medical and pharmaceutical industries that require gamma irradiation for sterilization purposes. Read Original Content
The Ask the Experts Forum from the RFID Journal recently posted an article answering the question “How Do RFID-based Toll-Collection Systems Work?” Read Original Content
According to a new report from VDC Research, there is an accelerating transition away from traditional laser-based barcode scanners toward camera-based solutions “that can do much more than just simply read a barcode”. Read Original Content
DAP Technologies and Omni-ID collaborated to produce a new series of rugged mobile tablets that incorporate both active and passive RFID reader capabilities. Read Original Content
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Whitepapers of Note
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A Smarter Way to Integrate and Mobilize Oracle JD Edwards Applications
Strategies for Cross-Platform Deployment of Enterprise Applications
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Kevin Benedict serves as the Senior Vice President, Solutions Strategy, at Regalix, a Silicon Valley based company, focused on bringing the best strategies, digital technologies, processes and people together to deliver improved customer experiences, journeys and success through the combination of intelligent solutions, analytics, automation and services. He is a popular writer, speaker and futurist, and in the past 8 years he has taught workshops for large enterprises and government agencies in 18 different countries. He has over 32 years of experience working with strategic enterprise IT solutions and business processes, and he is also a veteran executive working with both solution and services companies. He has written dozens of technology and strategy reports, over a thousand articles, interviewed hundreds of technology experts, and produced videos on the future of digital technologies and their impact on industries.
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