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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A new program in Alberta, Canada uses GPS to enable at-risk women to connect to a 911 dispatcher while tracking their location.  Read Original Content

Idaho State University and other universities and cities around the world will celebrate World GIS day on November 14, 2012.  "World GIS Day offers everyone a chance to learn more about the fascinating field of Geographic Information Systems and how GIS is part of our everyday lives today.”  Read Original Content

Fast-casual restaurants are using RFID technology to improve service times and track the time for orders from payment to receipt of the order by the customer.  Read Original Content

ClickSoftware is an SAP mobility partner and the leading provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions for every size of service business.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by ClickSoftware.

Congress in India is utilizing RFID technology to improve communication among party members.  Read Original Content

Federal emergency responders arriving in unfamiliar hurricane-ravaged regions are aided by a high-tech mobile command center, the Defense Department’s Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence System.  Read Original Content


Trimble has unveiled a new rugged tablet, the Yuma 2, designed for outdoor use in construction, transportation, utility work, and other fieldwork areas requiring rugged devices.  Read Original Content

Electric vehicle drivers can now use their Apple iPhone or Android device to access free or paid charging stations for their vehicles.  Read Original Content

High-tech winter sports enthusiasts now have three GPS goggle models available from Zeal Optics.  Read Original Content

MobileDemand has unveiled a new rugged tablet, the xTablet T1200, a military rugged tablet developed to boost productivity for mobile users working in harsh environments such as utilities, mining, oil and gas exploration, construction, inspections, maintenance and repair, warehousing, transportation/distribution, military, police, fire, public safety, rail and intermodal.  Read Original Content

Using barcode technology, HistoryPoints.org is a virtual tour guide helping bring local history to people’s mobile phones in Wales.  Read Original Content

TransitionWorks Software has developed a new evacuation management system utilizing RFID technology.  Businesses can accurately and efficiently account for an individual’s location in the case of an emergency by providing employees, contractors, and visitors with active RFID badges and installing RFID readers at exits, entrances, and muster points.  Read Original Content

In Deloitte’s report “The Power of Zoom: Transforming Government through Location Intelligence”  the geospatial data explosion is described as a "mass proliferation" generated by sensors, Internet use, geocodes attached to digital images and handheld devices with GPS capabilities.  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.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines is utilizing barcodes in an attempt to stop illegal logging activities by attaching barcodes to logs to track their movement from the source to the wood-processing plants.  Read Original Content

Radiant RFID has been awarded a contract by the State of New Jersey to provide its RFID-based solutions to assist evacuation and emergency tracking during catastrophic events, providing the Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness with an evacuation solution that tracks evacuees, pets, emergency transport vehicles, and commodities deployed at state shelters.  Read Original Content

Esri has released ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 3.1 alongside the release of Trimble Positions field collection software.  The two work together to simplify field collection activities.  Read Original Content

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