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From Now to Next, How Sprint is Evolving to Make the World 'Smart'

With the rise of smartphones, tablets, Internet-connected and 3G-ready netbooks and notebooks, and MiFis and USB modems taking up space at Sprint and other carrier retail stores, it’s hard to not become myopic on the potential and possibility of mobile broadband data beyond computing, phones, and tablets. Fortunately for us, Sprint and its partners have the foresight to look ahead at a time when other carriers are trying to control or curb mobile broadband data use. For Sprint, who is opening its networks to a range of business-to-business and business-to-business-to-consumer devices, the network is the promise for the future beyond hyper-connected Facebook posts and tweets where it can potentially solve some of society’s pressing problems.

That future is now a working reality at Sprint’s M2M (machine-to-machine) Collaboration Center, a newly appointed facility in Burlingame, California just minutes away from San Francisco and the International Airport, where Sprint is providing its services, expertise, and resources gratis to entrepreneurs, developers, and technologists to evaluate products that can tap into the Now Network.

In addition to phones and tablets, Sprint’s Wayne Ward, who is head of the carrier’s emerging solutions group, quotes that there will be an estimated 1 trillion Internet-connected devices by 2013, and of those devices, 412 million of them will be wirelessly-enabled M2M solutions globally.

M2M, otherwise known as machine-to-machine, is the process of bringing wireless connectivity to devices and instruments that normally would not be considered a data device by today’s measure. Those efforts include smart meters, where utility meters are connected to a a network, health care tools that wirelessly transmit data readings for use in-home, wirelessly-connected security cameras, and others.

The possibility for the future of M2M is there, and at the Collaboration Center, Caroline Semerdjian, who is the PR manager for Northern California, along with Mary Kunkel and Samantha Jordan, demoed some of the technologies and solutions that Sprint and its partners are working on that are helping to change the world from the worlds of cars and automobiles, to fleet management and security tracking, to retail and medicine.

One solution, which affects the automobile industry, and was also highlighted in Freescale president Rich Beyer’s keynote at the Freescale Technology Forum in San Antonio, Texas that I recently attended, focuses on helping to monitor driving habits. The particular Sprint-partnered solution is developed by Trimble and is called the Driver Safety box. Developed for commercial fleets, the box sits on top of the dash and monitors hard brakes, rough turns, potential swerves, and other patterns of potentially unsafe or distracted driving. When it detects bad driving, it flashes a light at the driver to let the driver know to correct his driving behavior, and the data can also be transmitted back to the office. If you’re managing a logistics fleet, for example like a UPS fleet of delivery trucks, you’d want your drivers to be alert, safe, and cognizant of traffic laws. With the Trimble Solution, if you’re the boss, you could potentially be riding shotgun alongside every driver you manage.

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Colonial Heights, VA ( PRWEB ) June 17, 2009

Today the world starts changing for a huge number of senior citizens and their families.

So says Mark Gordon, president and CEO of firstSTREET, a national catalog and online marketing company whose products and services are focused on and directed to the Baby Boomer and Beyond market.

At the Boomer Venture Summit in Santa Clara, CA, firstSTREET and MyGait today unveiled a failure-free and fear-free computer especially conceived for and by seniors over an eight-year period of hands-on research at senior centers and assisted living communities around the country. The designed for SENIORS...

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