Technology In Mobile Computing

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Mobile computing is becoming increasingly important due to the rise in the number of portable computers and the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the Internet irrespective of the physical location of the node. Mobile computing offers significant benefits for organizations that choose to integrate the technology into their fixed organizational information system. Ranging from wireless laptops to cellular phones and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth enabled PDA’s to wireless sensor networks, mobile computing has become ubiquitous in its impact on our daily lives. Mobile computing is a versatile and potentially strategic technology that improves information quality and accessibility, increases operational efficiency, and enhances management …show more content…

Mobile computing technology enables the mobile worker to create, access, process, store and communicate information without being constrained to a single location. By extending the reach of an organization's fixed information system, mobile computing enables interaction with organizational personnel that were previously disconnected. Mobile computing is the discipline for creating an information management platform, which is free from spatial and temporal constraints. The freedom from these constraints allows its users to access and process desired information from anywhere in the space. The state of the user, static or mobile, does not affect the information management capability of the mobile platform being constrained to a single location. To facilitate the data management activities, users can carry Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), laptop, cell phones, etc. At present the current technology only provides limited transaction processing capabilities but soon such facilities will be available on all mobile devices such as cell phones, laptops, palmtops, etc. This discipline allows us to define a connectivity mode, which we refer to as "Mobile Connectivity". We define mobile connectivity mode …show more content…

The most common of these technologies are: (a) Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) (b) Satellite (c) Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) (d) Personal Communications Systems (PCS) (e) Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) (f) RAM and ARDIS data networks (g) Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) service (h) one and two-way paging (i) plain old telephone system (POTS) (j) Internet (k) infra-red (l) docking (serial, parallel, LAN) and (m) disk swapping. These diverse communications technologies make available a continuum of connectivity that provides communications capabilities ranging from manual-assisted batch transfers to high-speed continuous

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