Information Technology

One emerging new wireless technology is Wireless Open-Access Research Platform (WARP). WARP was developed by Rice Universities Center for Multimedia Communication and they claim it can transfer data 100 times faster than 3G networks. WARP enables companies to work on substituting and replacing existing technologies. WARP is scalable and is a flexible tool developed with expansion feasibility for wireless researchers.

The benefit of WARP is its ability to be customized and allows researchers to qualify and quantify their ideas by writing programs which then transform WARP boards functionality into the newly designed types of wireless device. Risks involved are the compatibility with existing hardware and software and costs to implement the systems as it is a whole hardware infrastructure.

I believe this technology would be beneficial to my company we utilize a great deal of web-based applications and have many remote users and this technology could improve our work productivity.

References:

http://warp.rice.edu/project_overview.php

http://4g-wirelessevolution.com/topics/4g-wirelessrevolution/articles/49905

Zigbee Technology is a company based in Great Britain that produces wireless control products that can be used in the commercial or industrial realm (www.adaptivemodules.co.uk/). They are one of the leading companies that market technology solutions for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. Their cost effective, low power mesh networks (using digital radios) can be used in smart grids, connected homes, and building automation. The sensors and control devices used