1. Business Driven Technology Unit 4 Building Innovation Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.McGraw-Hill/Irwin

2. Unit Four O Chapter Thirteen - Creating Innovative Organization O Chapter Fourteen - EBusiness O Chapter Fifteen - Creating Collaborative Partnerships O Chapter Sixteen - Integrating Wireless Technology in Business 16-2

3. Chapter 16 Integrating Wireless Technology in Business 16-3

4. LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Explain the business benefits of using wireless technology 2. Describe the wireless trends that benefit consumers and businesses 16-4

5. BUSINESS DRIVERS FOR A MOBILE WORKFORCE O Companies worldwide are going wireless to increase productivity, speed delivery to market, and reduce operating costs O Wireless transmissions rely on radio waves, microwaves, and satellites to send data across high frequency radio ranges that later connect to wired media 16-5

6. BUSINESS DRIVERS FOR A MOBILE WORKFORCE O The terms mobile and wireless are often used synonymously, but actually denote two different technologies O Mobile means the technology can travel with the user, but it is not necessarily in real-time O Wireless gives users a live (Internet) connection via satellite or radio transmitters 16-6

7. USING CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS O Cellular telephones (cell phones) work by using radio waves to communicate with radio antennas (or towers) placed within adjacent geographic areas called cells O A telephone message is transmitted to the local cell by the cellular telephone and then is passed from antenna to antenna, or cell to cell 16-7

8. USING CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS 16-8

9. USING CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS O The latest trends in cell phones reflect a convergence of voice, video and data communications O By blending information with entertainment, cell phones are center-stage in the evolving trend of mobile infotainment 16-9

10. Personal Data Assistants O Personal digital assistants (PDA) are small, handheld computers capable of entirely digital communications transmission O Smartphone - combines the functions of a cellular phone and a PDA in a single device 16-10

11. Bluetooth O Bluetooth – a telecommunications industry specification that describes how mobile phones, computers, and personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be easily interconnected using a short-range wireless connection 16-11

12. USING SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS O Satellite - a big microwave repeater in the sky; it contains one or more transponders that listen to a particular portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, amplifying incoming signals, and retransmitting them back to Earth O Microware transmitter - commonly used to transmit network signals over great distances 16-12

13. USING SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS 16-13

14. USING SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS O Location-based services (LBS) - are wireless mobile content services which provide location-specific information to mobile users moving from location to location 16-14

15. Global Positioning System (GPS) O Global Positioning System (GPS) - is a "constellation" of 24 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location O The location accuracy is anywhere from 100 to 10 meters for most equipment 16-15

16. Global Positioning System (GPS) 16-16

17. Global Positioning System (GPS) O Geographic information system (GIS) - is designed to work with information that can be shown on a map O Some cell phone providers equip their phones with GPS chips that enable users to be located to within a geographical location about the size of a tennis court 16-17

18. Global Positioning System (GPS) O Common GIS uses: O Finding what is nearby O Routing information O Information alerts O Mapping densities O Mapping quantities 16-18

19. USING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS O Wireless fidelity (wi-fi) – a means of linking computers using infrared or radio signals O Common examples of wireless devices include: O Cellular phones and pagers O Global positioning systems (GPS) O Cordless computer peripherals O Home-entertainment-system control boxes O Two-way radios O Satellite television 16-19

20. USING SATELLITE TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS 16-20

21. WiMAX O The main problem with Wi-Fi access is that hot spots are very small, so coverage is sparse O WiMAX - is a telecommunications technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways, from point-to- point links to full mobile cellular type access 16-21

22. WiMAX O A WiMAX system consists of two parts: O A WiMAX tower - A single WiMAX tower can provide coverage to a very large area - as big as 3,000 square miles O A WiMAX receiver - The receiver and antenna could be built into a laptop the way Wi-Fi access is today 16-22

23. WiMAX 16-23

24. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) O Radio frequency identification (RFID) - use active or passive tags in the form of chips or smart labels that can store unique identifiers and relay this information to electronic readers O RFID tag - contains a microchip and an antenna, and typically work by transmitting a serial number via radio waves to an electronic reader, which confirms the identity of a person or object bearing the tag 16-24

25. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) 16-25

26. MOBILE WORKFORCE TRENDS O Social networking gets mobilized O Mobile TV O Multi-function devices become cheaper and more versatile O Location-based services O Mobile advertising O Wireless providers move into home entertainment O Wireless security moves to the forefront O Enterprise mobility 16-26

27. LEARNING OUTCOME REVIEW O Now that you have finished the chapter please review the learning outcomes in your text 16-27