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Wi-Fi Today
What is Wi-Fi?
• Wi-Fi – Wireless Fidelity – High frequency wireless local
area network (WLAN)• Transfer data on radio frequency• IEEE – three specifications
– 802.11b– 802.11a– 802.11g
“Fight Crime without Wires”
• Colorado’s city Aurora uses GPRS and Wi-Fi to send information to their public-safety workers more quickly and efficiently.
• Keeps public-safety workers in touch anywhere.
• Result: More efficient crime fighting and quicker response to fires.
“Fight Crime without Wires”
• Allows police officers to operate in real time
• A mug shot can be downloaded in about 20 seconds in comparison to 50 minutes on the old network
• reports written in their vehicles can be sent to an office within minutes
“Fight Crime without Wires”
• Benefits the Fire Department as well
• Can examine maps of areas when headed to fire sites
• Alerts them to possible hazards such as gas lines
• Points to water mains in order to fight fires
“McDonald’s Expands Wireless Web”
• As of July 8, 2003 McDonald’s has begun offering wireless internet access to 55 San Francisco area outlets, and is also conducting pilot tests at 10 of its New York restaurants
• McDonald’s hopes to increase the flow of business to their restaurants
“McDonald’s Expands Wireless Web”
• Don Thompson, McDonald's West Division president said, "Today's customer is more time-pressed than ever, and we think it's important to meet the needs of busy professional and family lifestyles by offering services that are easy to use and relevant.”
Wi-Fi & Coffee
Fee-Based Service
Free Service
• “Wi-Fi’s most popular application so far”
• T-Mobile USA Inc.– T-1 Line
• Over 2000 hotspots
• More Customers = More time = More purchases
• % from T-Mobile• Productivity 20%• Revenues
27%
• 2 Stores– 3 month trial run
• SurfHere Service– 1 customer a week
• Free Service– 5-6 customers a
day• Adopted Free
Service
• Fee-based good for high traffic areas
• Spend 3 $ on goods
• Installed Wi-Fi in 3rd store– Enough room?
• Revenues
x
10%
SBC Park• “one of the largest hot
spots in the world”• Connect to the Internet
or enter the Giants Digital Dugout
• Eight months to complete which included installing one hundred twenty-one access points
• Approx. 1,000 of the fans can connect simultaneously
PNC Park• Shared costs• Value added to
tickets• Increased sales of
tickets• Fans that are “bored
by the slow pace of a game or wanting more statistics and information”
Celina Insurance Group
• “We can easily cost-justify it…can absolutely work for a small business”
• Deployed at the company’s headquarters and networks at employees’ homes
• Increased productivity for adjusters on the road
• More clients can be met with which allows greater competitiveness with larger companies
• Time saved at the beginnings of meetings
Universal Health Services Inc.
• CIO – Linda Reino– Wi-Fi has been at the top of the
agenda for the past eight years– Requirement that every facility
budget for and build a wireless infrastructure by 2005
– “Every new Universal Health building is ready for wireless”
Wi-Fi Advantages• Per user investment v. per room
– 75% occupancy does not mean 25% unused investment
• Makes hospital workers more precise, less errors– E.g. safer to secure data electronically than to
guard a paper chart• Productivity gains
– Caseworkers can gain ½ hour a day by using laptops instead of returning to office for paperwork
• Real-time information– Caseworkers can document conversations instantly– Cuts down on errors and paperwork
Why Wi-Fi?• $21 billion company – Shipping giant
– Needs increased mobility– Continuously growing business– Will allow this rapidly growing business to effectively
handle more customers• Nighttime Package-handling
– Three hour window - 3.5 million packages– Scan bar codes on shipments and upload information
immediately• Allows customers to easily track their packages in
transit at any time, anywhere beginning the next day• Planes
– Maintenance information – Gate-arrival information
• FedEx Campuses– Mobility between offices and executives without the
confusion of wires
Wireless Solutions• 30% jump in productivity
– Couriers use a device called the PowerPad, which uses Bluetooth wireless technology that allows FedEx couriers to communicate with each other within 30 feet of their vehicle.
• Convenience– “…are a key part of what makes it possible for
customers to find out where packages are in transit, whether on a FedEx Express jet speeding across the Atlantic Ocean or a FedEx Ground tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.”
• Efficiency– On average, FedEx Express and FedEx Ground
packages are scanned at least a dozen times from pickup to delivery
Amtrak
• Agreement with AT&T for Wi-Fi• Six stations• One million passengers per day• WI-FI enabled Laptop or PDA• Both AT&T and Non-AT&T
customers• Free for AT&T customers• $9.99 for 24 hour period for others
Amtrak
•No cost to Amtrak•Expansion of national EDGE
network (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution)
•National Mobile Wireless Network with speeds between 100-130 Kbps
Schlotzsky's
• Restaurant Chain• Free Wireless Internet Access• Survey:
–40% factor in decision to come–6% just for the access
• 38 restaurants in six states- TX, OH, CA
• “Cool Deli Stations”
Schlotzsky's
•Proprietary Content Filtering System
•Beyond the lunch hour -“Hot Spots”
•Requires all new franchisees to adopt
Thank You
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