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Wireless Sensors, Transmitters: $1,850 mn Market
According to an analysis from Frost&Sullivan, the revenues from World
Wireless Sensors and Transmitters Markets totaled $160 mn in 2005. It is
expected to grow to $1,850 mn in 2012.
With the availability of commodity radio devices, adoption of
wireless sensing technology in industrial applications and automation in the
areas including energy management, process control and inventory tracking has
risen considerably.
The largest opportunity for wireless sensor networks is as
sensing devices in remote or inaccessible areas such as nuclear plants, oil and
gas fields and high temperature furnaces. Overall, the key growth areas for the
technology lie in energy for metering, building home and industrial automation.
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NPI, Brooks Automation
Tie-up
Network Programs (India) (NPI), has announced an RFID solution partnership
with Brooks Automation, a US-NASDAQ listed company with a Germany based
RFID Division. NPI will resell Brooks RFID solutions in India and other
South Asian markets. In addition, as a member of the Brooks RFID Partner
Network, NPI will enable Brooks equipment on its RFID middleware, SmartFlo.
OnMobile Gets $ 27.8 mn
OnMobile announced that it has secured strategic financing of $27.8 mn
from Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs&Polygon Investment Partners.
OnMobile is one of the market leaders in VAS, mobile content distribution,
interactive media portals, 1-to-1 direct marketing via mobiles, and
m-Commerce in the fast growing 150 mn plus subscribers in the Indian
telecom market. OnMobile was spun out from Infosys.
TeleDNA to Raise $10 mn
Bangalore-based TeleDNA, a provider of mobile Value Added Services
infrastructure is currently in the process of raising $10 mn venture
capital fund to expand its sales and support outside India. As part of its
expansion, the company plans to set up an office in Singapore within
three-four months. TeleDNA currently has offices in Bangalore and
Hyderabad in India, and Dallas and Texas in the US. Its clients in the
mobile VAS infrastructure products segment include BSNL, BPL, Airtel and
Hutch. Besides its core area of mobile VAS products and services, the
company had started selling VAS enterprise solutions from this year and
added customers like Air Deccan, Standard Chartered Bank, IndusInd Bank
and Coffee Day.
Alcatel, Nokia to
Collaborate
Alcatel and Nokia have announced a collaboration which extends Alcatel's
business telephony offering to the mobile workforce by way of the Nokia
E-series, a range of business class devices. The Intellisync Call Connect
for Alcatel is a Nokia offering designed to integrate Nokia E-series
devices into the Alcatel IP Communication server. The collaboration
reaffirms both companies' commitment to mobilizing business
communications. Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel capitalizes on the
capabilities of the Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise as well as the power of
Nokia E-series. With the solution, popular desk phone functionalities are
available to the mobile user.
MobileOne' Treo
Smartphone Palm, MobileOne and Microsoft have announced the first Asian
availability of the new Palm Treo 750v Smartphone, bringing for the first
time to Asia the hallmark Palm experience on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
over a wireless 3G/UMTS network. The Smartphone will be available through
M1, Vodafone's network partner in Singapore. |
However, there are still issues related to interoperability
of multi-vendor equipment. Wireless sensors and sensor networking technologies
are largely proprietary and each market participant has his own set of
implementations with little interfacing capabilities with those of other
manufacturers or original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)," said
Frost&Sullivan Research Analyst, V Sankaranarayanan. Hence, if a customer
was to buy a solution from one service provider, migrating to another would mean
reworking the entire solution, thereby incurring significant costs, he adds.
Nevertheless, the analysts pointed out that with the
emergence of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and very recent ZigBee standard,
wireless sensing technology seems to be heading towards a standards-based
environment. The future growth of the market will depend on ensuring that
applications are developed in such a way that all sensors can be demonstrated
independently and are also interoperable.
Elitecore's WiMax Billing Solution
Elitecore Technologies has launched Crestel Convergent Billing to deliver
end-to-end WiMax billing and customer-centric management. The solution meets the
complete OSS/BSS, policy management, authentication and customer care
requirements with distinct offerings for tier-1 to tier-3 WiMax and next
generation service providers.
According to Hemal Patel, managing director and CEO,
Elitecore Technologies, vendor of Crestel Convergent Billing, even as WiMax has
extended beyond backhaul towards the edge and access layers, it has emerged as a
parallel service to cellular technologies with its ability to cater to mobile
VoIP.
WiMax deployments are gaining ground. According to In-Stat
Research, WiMax equipment market is expected to grow from $42 mn in 2006 to $3
bn in 2010.
As a convergent solution, Crestel delivers network agnostic
OSS/BSS, functioning through a unified control layer, enabling multi-service
operators to seamlessly integrate their WiMax offering into current networks
while offering matching service levels over the new technology.
In conjunction with Elitecore's RADIUS solution, Crestel
enables high-value broadband service delivery to qualified customers through
user and device authentication, provisioning, mediation, real-time rating and
charging with prepaid and postpaid billing. On the other hand it also offers a
one-stop solution to smaller providers and greenfield operators with limited
technical and financial resources, delivering pre-paid and post-paid billing,
accurate service provisioning, policy-based QoS, inbuilt RADIUS functionality,
differential packages and customer web self-care.
SCO Launches HipCheck
SCO Group's Me Inc mobile services division has launched HipCheck mobile
service, a proactive mobile administration solution. The service allows system
administrators to proactively monitor and manage UNIX and Windows systems 24x7
from any location through Windows mobile phones. The solution combines system
monitoring and alerts with secure mobile intervention allowing the technicians
to detect, diagnose and correct many common system problems.
The pricing for the HipCheck service Pricing can be range
from $10 to $18 per monitored system per month. It will vary depending on the
number of users, servers and the time period that the service is used on the
Windows mobile device.
Sony Ericsson's Smartphone
Sony Ericsson has launched the first commercially available smartphone with
the Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform. With the estimated
street price of Rs 37,000, the P990i smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled and features a
2 megapixel camera and a hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad.
The P990i provides the benefits of UMTS including video
calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the
Internet with full HTML pages. In addition it is also prepared for all major
push e-mail clients enabling full e-mail access with attachments.
It has an internal memory of 80 MB, which is expandable via Sony Memory Stick
Pro Duo cards upto 4GB. A 64 MB Memory Stick PRO Duo is included in the box,
preloaded with a VPN client and trial version of a virus scan package. Page(s) 1
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