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"The DataSplice application and the Windows Mobile powered devices should allow us to do more work, more effectively, with the same number of people."
Mickey Allen, Account Executive, Grubb & Ellis
As the primary facility services provider for Microsoft campuses in the United States, Grubb & Ellis needs to maintain a high level of service for steadily growing square footage, while controlling costs.
To address that challenge, the company pilot-tested a mobile, automated work order solution, consisting of the DataSplice Mobile Integration Suite that runs on Windows Mobile® powered Sprint smart devices and integrates with the Maximo Enterprise computerized maintenance management system.
With this solution, Grubb & Ellis anticipates quicker response times for enhanced customer satisfaction, faster resolution of work orders, and more self-generated work orders.
The firm also expects to handle a significant expansion of the Microsoft property portfolio with a relatively small increase in staff, while collecting additional data to support more proactive services and solutions.
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10 Applications of USB Device Networking to Improve Personal and Business Operations
Today’s most clever social scientist could say that what really separates us humans from the animals, even the most intelligent, productive species, is our ability to reason, think, and plan.
We’ve created all kinds of high-tech gadgets to help us keep it all together, to speed communication, and to make life easier.
These devices-computers, cell phones, pointing devices, printers, scanners, digital cameras, storage devices, etc.-have all supposedly been created to make us more functional, more productive, more connected in our complex societies.
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For years, Applied Data Systems has been known for their
low-power consuming RISC-based single board computers
with comprehensive power management.
But not all systems are battery-powered.
For these, more is needed than
just favorable MIPS per milliwatt performance.
These systems need raw power for computing, and for communication.
This is where Applied Data Systems found applications for the range of Intel® IXP42X network processors.
With this series of processors, Intel has dramatically
increased the CPU power and communication capability
offered to the designer of almost any network-connected
device.
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New levels for power management and signal analysis enable the next generation of
robotics and sensor platforms.
More and more systems demand smart sensor platforms,
networked into wide-area systems.
In a way, the modern
cell phone is such a platform with video and audio signal
capture and enough analysis power to recognize spoken
commands.
To bring this price and performance to the
general robotics and research/industrial applications,
Applied Data Systems (ADS) has based its product line on
Intel® PXA270 processors for ADS purpose built, single
board computers.
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Revision NC March 2, 2005
This document is an introduction to the use of Bluetooth for embedded control applications.
Although there are many resources that discuss Bluetooth for wireless headphones, keyboards, mice, and similar uses, this document is confined to the advantages and potential pitfalls of using Bluetooth for embedded control.
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Palm for embedded products?
Admittedly, it is a niche solution, but there are special situations where it is very useful.
Any application that acquires quantities of data at one or a few locations for processing at a different location and where a person will always be nearby is a candidate.
It can also be a solution for control applications where the control features are hardly ever changed, and the operator interface is a disproportionate share of the hardware cost.
An example of this is a sprinkler controller, which might go for months with no changes to the program. Palm for embedded applications generally rely on a Bluetooth radio link.
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