04-14-2003, 03:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Where is Bluetooth?, Part II
One of the things cited in Ed's post last week was Bluetooth's difficulty getting off the ground. David Shier, who runs the BluetoothNews site, talks about one non-consumer application that may serve as a useful launching pad for Bluetooth - industrial automation.
In several ways, such a commercial environment makes a lot of sense. Apart from us early adopters, mass consumer adoption of Bluetooth will only happen when it's cheap. Many applications have been developed and made more cost-effective in commercial/industrial arenas and then "handed down" to the consumer market, and Bluetooth might become one of these.
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04-14-2003, 04:02 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 361
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Remember when the article came out about UPS using Bluetooth in their new sorting facilities? For those keeping score, the new center in Algona, WA (halfway to Tacoma from Seattle) was supposed to be the pilot. Bluetooth was supposed to represent not only the latest in industrial automation for the workers there, but it was also supposed to be built into a proprietary WinCE device for their package scanning and signature things.
But alas, I'm not sure if it panned out. I did see my local FedEx Ground driver with a Dell Axim last week delivering packages, and he definitely wasn't using the IR...
-Jason
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