hillscp
Soylent Green is People!!
Hmmm, I was in the Navy too 1976 - 1980 so I know what you mean.
IDK why radio signals are still being used as controllers. Is that system digital? Seems like an IP network would be a better solution.
I have a project at work where the leadership wants some technology to send alpha pages to notify people (housekeepers) of events. Problem is, our in house paging system doesn't accept SMTP messages over TCPIP. So I started thinking . . "You know - You can do this with a stupid iPod that you can buy at Wallmart. Just send e-mail to the device from a program based on triggers over our existing wireless LAN" The telecom folks still want all their analogue radios and pagers and such to perform such a simple function. Cost a bundle too with all the transmitters and cabling.
I had the boss buy an iPod last week so we could pilot the project with iPods.
Part of the problem is the commodity market wants to bundle devices with service plans and stuff we don't need. There is no such thing as a cheap mobile device that can deliver simple SMTP messages without all the additional baggage of internet browsing and telephone and YOUTUBE.
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IDK why radio signals are still being used as controllers. Is that system digital? Seems like an IP network would be a better solution.
I have a project at work where the leadership wants some technology to send alpha pages to notify people (housekeepers) of events. Problem is, our in house paging system doesn't accept SMTP messages over TCPIP. So I started thinking . . "You know - You can do this with a stupid iPod that you can buy at Wallmart. Just send e-mail to the device from a program based on triggers over our existing wireless LAN" The telecom folks still want all their analogue radios and pagers and such to perform such a simple function. Cost a bundle too with all the transmitters and cabling.
I had the boss buy an iPod last week so we could pilot the project with iPods.
Part of the problem is the commodity market wants to bundle devices with service plans and stuff we don't need. There is no such thing as a cheap mobile device that can deliver simple SMTP messages without all the additional baggage of internet browsing and telephone and YOUTUBE.
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