A supplier of portable productivity items, Socket Mobile, Inc., has publicized its newest offering, the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P322 – the latest versions of its Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g SDIO Cards, which features an internal antenna and P32XX external antenna The comprehensive OS support for the 322 products of Socket will be provided by the partnership of Socket and embWiSe. There will be a bigger number of compatible operating system since Socket utilizes Windows Mobile and Windows CE while embWiSe uses Nucleus, ThreadX and Linux, therefore allowing the WLAN products of Socket to expand to newer market opportunities.
According to the vice president of OEM sales at Socket Mobile, Les Lee, “We’re excited about our latest Go Wi-Fi! P322 and P322X WLAN SDIO cards; they’re the smallest a/b/g radios in an industry standard form factor.” Lee added, “Compared to our previous 802.11b/g only cards that operated at 2.4 GHz on a frequency crowded with miscellaneous activity from a variety of devices, the addition of the 802.11a radio, which runs at a higher frequency of 5 GHz, provides cleaner, more usable channels in the noisy radio environment of the industrial marketplace.”
Features provide by the latest products include a wider operating temperature span, wide variety of antennas, enhanced connection range, improved sensitivity of the receiver, better data throughput and superior power management, all of which are in a device with the same size as well as form as the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P300 and P320 cards, its forerunners.
The director of business development at embWiSe, G. Srinivasan, stated, “We’re able to achieve high throughput performance with our SDIOWorx stack/drivers on the GO Wi-Fi! P322 SDIO WLAN card, even in excess of 20 Mbps on some platforms.”
Availability
OEM customers who utilize Windows Mobile 6, Windows CE 5.0 and Windows CE 6.0 supported devices can acquire the Socket Go Wi-Fi! P322 and P322X, while embWiSe is offering devices which utilize Linux, Nuvleus and ThreadX operating systems. Socket distributors will start offering the P322 with the Windows Mobile 6 support around the world by the second quarter of 2010. The regulatory domains the US, Canada and Europe have certified the P322 and P322X.A security supplicant, connection and configuration management software as well as Cisco CCX support in the second quarter of 2010.
Shipments, mobile assets, and service trunk stocks on the field are monitored via global positioning systems (GPS) and wireless technologies by mobile field asset management (FAM) systems. Businesses will be able to benefit from the enhance perceptibility with the actual location and state of the mobile assets offering a robust return on investment (ROI) of hard earned cash. The software application income from the market has reached roughly $ 661 million in 2009 and is projected to hit the $ 2 billion mark by 2015 according to the latest report from Frost & Sullivan, 2010 North American Mobile Field Asset Management (FM) market.
According to Jeanine Sterling, Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst, the three main effects on the FAM operations were categorized by the Frost & Sullivan 2009 Mobile Enterprise Applications survey respondents. The first effect was an enhancement in the reaction time of field service personnel, next was the quicker settlement of problems on the field and lastly a considerable reduction of overtime work hours. All requests for service will be facilitated by the awareness of the exact location of mobile assets and the particular stocks available in each field service vehicle. A faster acceptance rate is hindered by a number of sectors due to the costly equipment and continuing general financial instability even if there is a gradual expansion of mobile FAM solutions sector and authority throughout the North American market.
Even if the billing for the software application and the complementary wireless information operation can be done on a monthly use basis, other important equipment for the mobile FAM solutions such as mobile modems for convoy administration, small-sized portable asset label for mobile shipment tracking, and radio frequency identification or barcode scanners for freight and stock monitoring are typically high-priced.
Sterling acknowledges that the necessary investment for these equipment selections will be quite steep taking into consideration the current economic situation. Vendors and channels are aware of this situation and are striving to take the financial load off the clients. The makers of the equipment are continuing to reduce the cost of their products. Frequently clients can discuss the terms of payment for the equipment to distribute the cost over a length of time or a pledge to a contract for several years to have the cost for the equipment completely waved. Another alternative is for vendors to utilize low-risk pilots or partial operations to persuade prospect heavy FAM users that the initial considerable investment on the solution will reap bigger returns in the future
According to Sterling, apprehensions on the expenses of mobile FAM, information protection and worker confusion will be eased through a well-made-month-long pilot.
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