Australia - Mobile Data - Telemetry, Location Services, RFID

Synopsis

Telemetry applications are expected to boom as ‘intelligent’ digital devices, which chatter away almost incessantly, exchanging all kinds of information automatically and transparently to the people around them. Data traffic between people and machines means that the global telecommunications network will soon resemble a worldwide computer network, rather than the voice-only mechanism for person-to-person communication it represented to its founders. This report looks at the market’s potential, and some developments in the USA and Australia on location-based services, and introduces the Bluetooth technology. Slow process continues but full deployment isn’t expected until well into the next decade..

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. The Internet of Things
• 3. Machine-to-machine transmission
• 4. Telemetry
• 5. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  • 5.1 RFID – a business revolution
  • 5.2 Rapidly maturing technology
  • 5.3 Developments in Australia
    • 5.3.1 RFID based information management system
    • 5.3.2 Sport applications
    • 5.3.3 Libraries
    • 5.3.4 Livestock
    • 5.3.5 Supply chain management
    • 5.3.6 Mail tracking
    • 5.3.7 Vehicle tracking
    • 5.3.8 Telstra’s RFID plans
  • 5.4 RFID experimental licences
  • 5.5 Industry association
• 6. Telemetry statistics (traditional market)
  • 6.1 Utilities telemetering
  • 6.2 Mobile-based telemetry
• 7. Location-based services
  • 7.1 Mobile origin location indicator and emergency
  • 7.2 Developments in the USA
  • 7.3 Developments in Australia
  • 7.4 Seeker Wireless Pty Ltd
  • 7.5 Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
    • 7.5.1 Overview
    • 7.5.2 Government Inquiry
    • 7.5.3 WorkScene from Globalstar and Tenzeng
  • 7.6 Cell broadcasting trial from Seven Network – 1998
  • 7.7 Vodafone’s ‘My Vodafone’ service
  • 7.8 Location and navigation from Sensis
    • 7.8.1 Update – late 2008
  • 7.9 Mobile Location Manager from Telstra
  • 7.10 Optus Zoo FindA
• 8. Car navigation systems
  • 8.1 Early results
  • 8.2 Market gathered pace in 2007
  • 8.3 Analysis
• 9. Related reports

• Table 1 – Telemetry devices – 1998; 2000; 2004
• Table 2 – Telemetry market – vertical market share forecast

• Exhibit 1 – Service evolution vision