Wireless Technology enables businesses to reach and connect with their customers and employees all over the globe, it allows for faster, better and more efficient services and it has the capacity to communicate and share information all over the world to all different technologies and resources.
Compare LANs and WANs.
Describe RFID and how it can be used to help make a supply chain more effective.
Identify the advantages and disadvantage of deploying mobile technology
Baltzan, Phillips, Lynch, Blakey, Business Driven Information Systems, 1st Australian/New Zealand Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2010.
Describe the business benefits associated with VoIP.
The benefits for businesses associated with VoIP are:
-It reduces costs and saves money for the company
-Increases the speed of the business
-Easier application integration
-It increases restoration and response times
-It increases restoration and response times
-Easier to exchange and use information with systems
Compare LANs and WANs.
Local Area Network (LAN)- connects a series of computers on one geographical location. e.g. school, home, office
Figure 1: Diagram of a Local Area Network (LAN)
Wide Area Network (WAN)- connects a series of computers on many different geographical locations. e.g. interstate, province, nationally
Figure 2: Diagram of a Wide Area Network (WAN)
Describe RFID and how it can be used to help make a supply chain more effective.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) refers to the technologies which use active or passive tags that are in the form of chips or smart labels. These chips and smart labels can store unique identifiers, which relay this information to electronic readers.
Passive RFID tags have no internal power, however they are able to pick up a very faint signal from an antenna and then are able to power up just enough to transmit data back to the antenna. An example of this is a passport.
Active RFID tags on the other hand have internal power and are able to transmit mush stronger and more accurate data. An example of this being toll cards.
A supply chain can be made more effective if business use RFID technologies in regards to planning, performance and operation. A business can put these tags on their products, as well as things like, boxes, packages or pallets, which are sent from the warehouse manufacturer to the supplier, being the distributor and then to the actual retailer being the shopkeeper, who would then sell the goods and products to the customer. By an organisation implementing tags, it enables not only the business, but also the distributors to monitor and track the distribution and travels of the goods and products. It also allows for the organisation to monitor the supply chain, as well as making sure that there are enough supplies on the shelves.
Figure 3: A video explaining RFID
Figure 4: A table I compiled of the advantages and disadvantages of deploying mobile technology
Refernce's:
T1 Town, 2010, Data Town, LAN/WAN, http://t1town.com/data-services/lanwan/, Visited 27/5/2011
austlo, RFID - Technology Video, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zj7txoDxbE, Visited 27/5/2011
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