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Wireless Imaging - Overcoming the Challenges - Players


Description: 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.


Contents: Infrastructure
Introduction
The Wireless Imaging Value Chain
1. Capture Appliances
1.1. Digital Cameras
1.2. Cell Phones
1.3. Cell Phone Accessories
1.4. PDAs and Handheld Game Units
1.5. PCs and Laptops
1.6. Miscellaneous
1a. Components
1a1. Hardware Components
1a2. Software Components
2. Communications (RF Transceivers/Modems)
2.1. Infrared
2.2. Bluetooth
2.3. Wireless LAN
2.4. Wireless Modems
2.5. Cell Phones
3. Carriers
3a. Infrastructure
4. Networks/Portals
4a. IASPs (Imaging Application Services Providers)
4b. Vendors
5. Display Appliances
The Road to 3G - U.S., Europe, and Asia
Introduction
United States
Technology - Past & Present
Technology - Future Implementation
What is 3G?
1. cdma2000
1a. The Road to 3G: cdmaOne to 1xRTT to 1xEV to cdma2000
2. W-CDMA
2a. The Road to 3G (GSM): GPRS I, II, & III to EDGE to W-CDMA
2b. The Road to 3G (TDMA): TDMA to EDGE to W-CDMA/4G
3. UWC-136
3a. The Road to 3G: IS-136 to IS-136+ to IS-136HS to UWC-136
New Spectrum
Europe
Technology - Past & Present
Technology - Future Implementation
Asia
Japan
Technology - Past & Present
Technology - Future Implementation
China
Technology - Past & Present
Technology - Future Implementation
Korea
Technology - Past & Present
Technology - Future Implementation
Understanding the Challenges
Introduction
Wireless Infrastructure Challenges
Bandwidth
Wireless Wide Area Networks
Cellular Providers
AT&T Wireless
Verizon Wireless
Sprint PCS
MCI WorldCom
SBC Communications
Voicestream
Nextel
Satellite - Globalstar
Data Networks
CDPD
BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Network
Motient
Metricom
Summary
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Infrared
Bluetooth
802.15.1
802.15.3
Wireless FireWire
Is it worth the trouble?
Wireless Local Area Networks
802.11
802.11b
802.11g
802.11a
HiperLAN
HomeRF
Summary
Coverage
Latency
Error Correction
Multiple Standards & Specifications
Frequencies
Air Interfaces/Protocols
Signaling/Modulation Schemes
Vendor Challenges
Upload Issues
1. File Size
1a. Targeted Applications
1b. Reduced Resolution
1c. Compression
1d. Distributed Processing
2. Shielding Vs. Transmission
3. Power Supply
4. Overloading Servers
Download Issues
1. Wireless Displays
2. Operating Systems
3. Interfaces
4. Air Interface/Signaling Schemes…Again
Standardization Challenges
Education Challenges
Business Challenges
Primary Research
A. Results of Future Image Survey of End User Expectations
B. Equipment Field Tests
FlashPoint Technology - Digita Post
ActivePhoto - Flying Pictures
Observations
Players
A. Imaging Companies
1. Concord Camera
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
2. Eastman Kodak
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
Wireless Initiatives
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
3. Polaroid
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
B. Telecommunications Companies
1. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5 Partnerships
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
2. Nokia
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
C. Wireless Imaging Start-ups
1. ActivePhoto
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
2. C Technologies AB
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
3. FlashPoint Technology
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
4. Internet Pictures Corporation (iPIX)
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
5. LightSurf Technologies, Inc.
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
6. PhotoAccess / Agilent Technologies
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
7. PhotoJet LLC
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
8. Zing Network, Inc
Introduction
1. Vision
2. Company
3. Business Model
4. Technology
5. Partnerships
6. Challenges/Competition
Observations
Contact info and value chain chart
Conclusion and Outlook
Conclusion & Outlook
The Wireless Imaging Value Chain
Appendices
A. A glossary of key technical terms
Sources
Terms
B. Capture Appliances
Digital Cameras
Cell Phones
Cell Phone Accessories
PDAs
C. Display Appliances
PDAs
Digital Picture Frames
Wallets
Internet Appliances
And more
D. Cellular History in the U.S.




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