OmniTRACS Antenna
date: label: date made
content: 1994
name: label: maker
content: Qualcomm
notes: label: Description
content: This is the outdoor satellite receiver/transmitter (e.g. the antenna unit) of the OmniTRACS satellite-based two-way data messaging, automatic vehicle positioning, and dispatch system. OmniTRACS 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: The white plastic case has a metal rim. There are also holes for screwing in a metal support, but no support. The antenna oscillated to locate a satellite and then remained fixed on the satellite during message transmission. A tag on the bottom of the object reads: QUALCOMM (/) INCORPORATED. It also reads: MODEL NO. USA2 (/) PART NO. 10-4150-2 (/) ASSEMBLED IN U.S.A. A second tag reads: SERIAL NO. 100000/94/1DN14-CV90-2860-1 REV C (11-94).
label: Description
content: The system won a Computerworld Smithsonian award for innovative technology in the workplace in 1994, and there is docummentation relating to that award in the NMAH Archives Center.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1994.0384.02
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0384.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0384
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Micrcomputer Component
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: metal. plastic. (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 cm x 30 cm; 5 29/32 in x 11 13/16 in