Mobile enterprises' highly charged research and development is leaping hurdle after hurdle toward offering ubiquity to the masses and making the digital sense a common experience. Within the next decade, wireless bandwidth will reach the capacity of wired bandwidth today, enabling wireless devices to access information once reserved for wired devices alone. The present explosion of increasingly powerful digital-data handling and innovative, intuitive mobile interfaces is enabling a host of opportunities to provide people with the digital sense. For example, companies can prevent injuries and protect their work force from environmental hazards. Buyers can pay for goods and services through a key fob or smart card containing user-identity data, such as personal credit card information used to purchase beverages through a technologically equipped vending machine.
Businesses can target consumers wherever they are physically present.
People can rest assured that what's important to them is secure even when they're not physically present. Mobile technology can enable not only remote information and asset protection but also remote tracking of devices or people. The architects of EDS Mobile recognize the concepts fueling mobility are not new. What's new is technology's ability to make the concepts real and ubiquity part of everyday life. Consumers will appreciate the convergence of mobile technology with the familiar environmental metaphors found in intuitive interfaces.