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Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News Various time saving, crime-fighting devices are also being used, including video ID parades, live-scan electronic fingerprinting, wearable body cameras and a £50m capital fund to deliver 10,000 mobile data devices to officers by September. [08 Feb 2008]
Turbo Charge Your Inventory Moves With Wearable Computers: 13 Key Considerations for Evaluating Wearables
White Paper Wearable computers, on the other hand, can improve productivity in any operation that requires that the operator's hands and eyes be dedicated to the task at hand. Bar code scanning has made data collection fast and accurate but sometimes operators... [07 Jan 2008]
TNT speeds data flow with handy hardware
Case Study In addition to new on-the-road hardware, TNT is in the process of upgrading the wearable mobile computer technology it uses in its warehouses to a Windows-based Symbol device. The new wearable device also has improved barcode scanning so parcels... [16 Nov 2007]
Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux
White Paper Using wearable computers, it is possible to take augmented reality software outdoors and visualise data that only exists in a computer. This paper describes the concept of augmented reality, the process of drawing virtual images over the real world... [18 Apr 2007]
A Middleware for Enabling Personal Ubiquitous Spaces
White Paper This paper envisions a new domain where a person carries or wears various heterogeneous devices with different capabilities, including PDAs, digital cameras, smart phones, smart watches, wearable computers, and MP3 jukeboxes. [21 Mar 2006]
Body-Centric WLANs for Future Wearable Computers
White Paper Wearable computers are expected to provide personalised assistants to the user anywhere at anytime with the user being the centre of attention in order to be a true extension of the human's mind and body. [09 Feb 2006]
Power Aware Middleware
White Paper Therefore, future wearable computers using wireless connections will be based on distributed operating systems. Since wearable devices have very restricted resources, the flexibility should be further extended by the intelligent wireless environment. [04 Jan 2006]
Symbol Hands-Free Scanners Selected by TSW Manufacturing Ltd
White Paper Before the introduction of the wireless wearable system solution from Symbol Technologies TSW Manufacturing used fixed position computers for data entry. TSW Manufacturing Ltd.is a manufacturing company producing alloy wheels for both the... [08 Nov 2005]
The McCue Interview: Highways Agency information director Denise Plumpton
Comment Wearable computers, voice recognition software for the HA's 1,000 traffic officers, and better message signs are all part of this vision. It's a little over six months into her role as the Highways Agency's (HA) first ever information director - or... [21 Sep 2005]
Union calls for European ban on staff-tracking RFID
News The GMB warned supermarkets last month that they face strike action if they continue to "dehumanise" shelf-stackers and warehouse staff by forcing them to use wearable computers that track movement and time how long it takes to complete tasks with... [19 Jul 2005]
Union: 'Supermarkets must stop dehumanising staff'
News The union is specifically targeting 'wearable' computers that can be fitted to the arm or chest. But supermarket Tesco, which has deployed wearable computers, insisted its workers were not tracked or timed on tasks. [07 Jun 2005]
IBSS Partners With Xybernaut to Aid the Development of RFID Applications That Run on Mobile Devices
White Paper Their goal is to certify that RFID applications developed using IBSS's Synapse platform will run on Xybernaut's wearable mobile computers. Software vendor Integrated Business Systems and Services (IBSS) has teamed up with wearable computer... [01 Jul 2004]
Wearable Services Platform: Worker Safety
White Paper Developed at the Accenture Technology Labs in Chicago, Illinois, the prototype of a Wearable Services Platform integrates cutting-edge sensor technology with "wearable" computers and wireless networks to create a whole new world of worker safety. [13 May 2004]
Wearable Services Platform: Package Delivery
White Paper Developed at Accenture Technology Labs in Chicago, Illinois, this prototype of a Wearable Services Platform offers shipping companies the most efficient delivery system ever, equipping drivers with 'wearable' computers that have turned science... [13 May 2004]
Non-Visual Interfaces for Wearable Computers
White Paper As computing devices drop in size and rise in power/bandwidth, novel interface techniques are needed to keep pace. Interfaces, which rely on screens and keyboards/handwriting, are not always effective in mobile computing scenarios. [24 Feb 2004]
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