So, reading back on my first 4 blogs, they've been exclusively about RFID. But there's more to my professional life than that. We work in various wireless arenas, and it's an area that's fascinating - with so many opportunities not just commercially, but to make everyone more productive and connected.
The newest thing we're working on is clever - but of course I'll say that! Essentially it's a secure VPN that uses whatever access is available - WiFi,wired LAN, GPRS etc and automatically switches between the appropriate connection as set by you - so if you're near WiFi, it uses it as it's faster and cheaper than GPRS. So users are *always* behind the corporate firewall, so no security or virus risks. The technicalities are mind-numbing to non-techies ( like me, actually . ) But it works, and it's being rolled out by a lot of users now.
My rambling and eventual point is that in our development of this prior to taking it to market, we were constantly amazed at the gaping errors in security protocols many big users had. Even we still blindly assumed that the bigger the organisation, the more secure or switched on their systems will be. Not always true though, is it?
I still get a huge kick out of sitting in town somewhere, having a coffee and using WiFi to get mails, IM'ing with colleagues and customers, and just having the facility to be productive far more often. It's revolutionising business in front of our very eyes.
Some of the wireless apps we've written ( always project based, incidentally ) have been not just clever, but so amazingly functional that it's drastically improved the business model of the customers in ways none of us, or them, could have ever imagined.
Whether at work or at home, WiFi is a killer feature, isn't it?