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Wireless Imaging - Overcoming the Challenges - Infrastructure and Players
Future Image Inc, Feb 2001, Pages: 316
The report consists of two sections: Infrastructure and Players. The infrastructure section details the Wireless Imaging Value Chain including capture devices and components, transmission devices, carriers, and portals. It addresses the technical challenges inherent to wireless imaging, and the geographical differences between the U.S., Europe and Asia. The Players section profiles over a dozen vendors and partnerships with declared plans for wireless imaging solutions, including:
Vision
Management
Business Model
Technology
Partnerships
Interviews with key executives
In addition the report features results of Future Image's primary research on expectations of end users, analysis of business challenges including pricing models, and glossary of key technical terms.
Additional Information
Definition
By our definition, “wireless imaging” is the transfer of digital images from one device to another without the use of cables. Although perhaps the ultimate objective is to transfer images from capture devices to a network server and retrieve images from a network server to a display device — from anywhere, there are numerous intermediate operations that qualify as well. Transferring images from Palm to Palm at six inches, from a camera to a printer from three feet away, from a set top box to a digital frame somewhere in the same house, from a laptop to a desktop computer in the same office building, or from mobile phone to mobile phone across the country — all are applications of wireless imaging.
The first section of the report describes the elements necessary for wireless imaging to happen — what we’re calling the Wireless Imaging Value Chain — and provides a definition and examples for each of the pieces as well as a list of some of the major players who provide those pieces.
As easy as those basic concepts are, the other topics covered in this report are rather more difficult to define. First, if there have been attempts to standardize the vocabulary, we’re unaware of them.
The untethered devices that folks hold up to their ears when talking on the phone are variously referred to as cell phones, smartphones, mobile phones, mobiles, terminals, and handsets. The companies you pay for that service are called carriers, operators, telcos, providers, and lots of other names when the call gets dropped. Digital data is transferred in pieces most often called packets but sometimes called blocks, frames, datagrams, or PDU’s (protocol data units). The little information appliances that you carry around are handhelds, palmtops, SFFD (small form factor devices), WID (wearable information devices), and a raft of brand names like Pocket PC or Blackberry or Visor or Revo. Second, there is no more acronym-laden segment than networking in general and telecommunications in particular. In an effort to keep the reader (and the author) from drowning in alphabet soup, we’ve included a wire-less glossary of more than eight hundred terms at the end of the report.
Methodology
Research for this report was conducted over a nine-month period starting in March 2000. We consulted both primary and secondary sources, following as many as three dozen news leads every day and compiling a dossier of several thousand documents and clippings on the subject. Searches on various subjects uncovered feature stories, news coverage, press releases, academic papers, corporate Internet sites, personal Web pages, and market research reports. Numerous vendors have prepared white papers and FAQs to assist their customers and the public in understanding the technology solutions they provide. Many also maintain histories of the industry and glossaries of terms. All these sources were invaluable in assembling the information in the first section.
We also conducted personal interviews either in per-son, by phone, or by e-mail with approximately 30 leading executives and representatives — some multiple times — from more than two dozen companies involved in one facet or another of wireless imaging. We conducted primary research on user expectations through a questionnaire administered on our Web site, and reviewed the current user experience of wireless imaging first hand through our field tests. We profiled thirteen companies in depth from traditional imaging and telecommunications giants to relative unknowns and tiny startups. Each company was covered in detail with regard to its vision, its history and management, business model, technology, partnerships, and challenges and competition.
Finally, each of the profiled companies was charted on the Wireless Imaging Value Chain to show which pieces of this complex puzzle each intends to pro-vide. Those already acquainted with the nuance and complexity of networks and telecommunications may find discussions and descriptions of technology, particularly in the Infrastructure section of the report, too general or over-simplified for their level of under-standing. The intent of these sections is to introduce these topics to an audience of business decision-makers who are typically not engineers, in order to provide a background for the broader discussion of wireless imaging.
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