OmniTRACS Communications Unit
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: maker
content: Qualcomm
notes: label: Description
content: This is the processing unit of the OmniTRACS satellite-based two-way data messaging, automatic vehicle positioning, and dispatch product. The system allowed transportation companies to keep track of the whereabouts of truck shipments in real time. Combined with Web-based software and wireless data networks, transporters and buyers could track shipments at any time across the world.
label: Description
content: Qualcomm's OmniTRACS Online provided wireless tracking of real-time freight data over the World Wide Web. The version of the application used with this system was written and ran in a Microsoft environment, featuring the Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Application (DNA) architecture with Component Object Model (COM) technology, the Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 suite of programming tools, and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition. The application was capable of scaling to handle two million database transactions a day, representing tracking activities for approximately 100,000 trucks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: QUALCOMM Incorporated, OmniTRACS Business Unit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0384.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0384.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Special Purpose Computer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: metal. plastic. (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.4 cm x 23.5 cm x 32.5 cm; 2 29/32 in x 9 1/4 in x 12 25/32 in