Topic > Wireless Technology in Business - 1420

The implementation of wireless technology has been adopted by both Giant companies, FedEx and UPS to maintain the competitive advantage of the company. The Bluetooth short-range wireless specification, 802.11b wireless LANs, and General Packet Radio (GPRS) are the wireless solution for both large enterprises. This leads to operational efficiency, cost savings – the key business requirement, and increased customer satisfaction while doing more with the same resources. These two companies have committed $100 million to wireless initiatives. The two companies are leveraging new wireless technologies in their various attempts to facilitate the two main components of their operations: pickup/delivery and packing/sorting. Both are also looking ahead to radio frequency identification (RFID) and GPS wireless technologies. The Wireless Advantage Since the late 1980s, agreements between technology providers and the two companies have created a proprietary process system. Subsequently, standards-based technologies such as 802.11b wireless LANs, short-range Bluetooth wireless links, and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) cellular networks have been used, offering significantly reduced development costs, easier maintenance, increased capacity, and security and cost lower operational. Pickup and delivery Over 13 million packages are held up every day by UPS and about 5 million, as FedEx dose, could not really imagine. Wireless solutions become the driving force in improving the efficiency possible. Both companies invest more than $100 million in wireless technology initiatives. Wireless technology almost brings them real-time information into their facilities.