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Field Mobility News Weekly – Week of December 30, 2012

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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For the first time, a GPS unit tracked a donated kidney’s progress from hospital to airport to destination in California, allowing the doctors to prepare the man who was going to receive the organ without any lag time.  Read Original Content

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will hold its annual RFID event, the IEEE International Conference on RFID, in conjunction with the RFID Journal LIVE! 2013 conference and exhibition. The two events will be held from April 30 – May 2, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.  Read Original Content

Rockland County, New York utilized a new interactive GIS mapping tool developed by Sewall to expedite emergency response during Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath.  Read Original Content

RFID technology is used to provide data to treat road damage such as cracks and potholes, with RFID chips embedded to store information about the strengths and structures of the road layers and materials along with road construction data and additional quality characteristics.  Read Original Content

ILS Technology provides ready-to-use cloud based platforms to implement and manage M2M (machine to machine) and embedded wireless devices that connect to SAP.  ILS Technology simplifies deployments and offers unparalleled security to protect company and customer data and to ensure regulatory compliance. This newsletter is sponsored in part by ILS Technology.

Traditional Chinese medicine retailer Yue Hwa Chinese Products emporium implemented an RFID solution and benefitted immediately due to the decrease in risk of human error. The company also reduced its annual stock take duration from 30 days to five days.  Read Original Content

A new kind of pet feeder utilizes RFID technology to only allow the pet wearing the correct RFID tag access to the feeding system, keeping “unauthorized” pets out.  Read Original Content
Bluebird Soft and Yellowfin Distribution have developed a new line of 7” and 10” rugged Pidion tablets and will unveil the line at the annual National Retail Federation “Big Show” in January.  Read Original Content

The LEO wristwatch features a GPS emergency locator with a panic button system tied to 911.  The watch enables children to instantly alert their parents and authorities when they are in danger.  Read Original Content

BAE Systems has been awarded a multi-year contract to provide Activity-Based Intelligence systems, tools and support for mission priorities for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.  Read Original Content

A new traffic study by engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley utilized commuters’ cellphone and GPS signals to track travel.  Read Original Content

CMTINC.COM has launched the Farming GPS GIS app for Apple’s iPad, intended for farming, farm sales, farm management and services.  Read Original Content

The three-year federally funded research project, RFID-based Automotive Network, focused on the use of RFID within Germany's automotive industry, ended in December with the partners announcing the goal of standardizing event-based data exchange across participating companies was met.  Read Original Content

Dan Swinhoe of IDG Connect provides a list of the Most Wanted Tech 2013, including “hybrid” devices – a cross between tablets and laptops.  Read Original Content

A Microsoft Research project finds there’s a way for GPS chips inside smartphones to use far less power, extending the battery life and making it practical to add GPS functionality to more devices, including low-power remote sensors.  Read Original Content

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Kevin Benedict is an enterprise mobility analyst, mobile strategy consultant, writer, speaker and SAP Mentor Alumnus. Follow him on Twitter @krbenedict. He is a popular speaker around the world on the topic of enterprise mobility. He maintains a busy schedule writing and speaking at events in North America, Asia and Europe. He has over 22 years of experience working with enterprise software applications and has built a mobile enterprise software company from the ground up that experienced 100% year-over-year growth for 4 straight years.

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