Smartphones And Wireless Applications
Mobile computing supports existing and entirely new kinds of applications. For example
Mobile computing supports existing and entirely new kinds of applications. For example
- Mobile personal communications capabilities, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), Smartphone, and cell phones for networked communications and applications.
- Online transaction processing. For example, a sales-person in a retail environment can enter an order for goods and also charge a customer's credit card to complete the transaction.
- Remote database queries. For example, a salesperson can use a mobile network connection to check an item's availability or the status of an order, directly from the customer's site.
- Dispatching, like air traffic control, rental car pickup and return, delivery vehicles, trains, taxis, cars, and trucks.
- Front-line IT applications. Instead of the same data being entered multiple times as they go through the value chain (the series of business activities that add value to a company's product or service), they are entered only once and transmitted electronically thereafter.
- M-commerce. Users of wireless devices can access the Internet, conduct information searches, collaborate with others and make decisions jointly, and buy and sell from anywhere.
- Temporary offices can be set up quickly and inexpensively by using wireless network connections.
- Wireless connections to permanent office locations are often practical in difficult or hazardous wiring environments.
- Installing a wireless connection can replace leased lines that are used the connect local area networks (LANs), thus eliminating the cost of monthly line leases.
- Retail. Retail applications have been very successful to date, particularly in department stores where there are frequent changes of layout. Also retail sales personnel can conduct inventory picking in warehouses with PCs mounted on forklifts, and for delivery and order status updates with PCs inside distribution trucks.
- Field service/sales. Mobile computing can be used for dispatching, online diagnostic support from customer sites, and parts-ordering/inventory queries in all types of service and sales functions.
- Factories/manufacturing. Environments and applications include mobile shop-floor quality control systems or wireless applications that give added flexibility for temporary setups.
- Health care/hospitals. Health care personnel can access and send data to patient records, or consult comparative diagnosis databases, wherever the patient or the health care worker may be located.
- Education. Pilot applications equip students with PCs in lecture halls, linked by a wireless network, for interactive quizzes, additional data and graphics lecture support, and online handout materials.
- Banking/finance. Mobile transactional capabilities can assist in purchasing, selling, inquiry, brokerage, and other dealings, using the Internet or private networks
