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03/30/2012
Location Looks For New Markets
Speaking at the recent GPS and Wireless Conference in California, Clem Driscoll, founder and president of C.J. Driscoll Associates, noted 300,000 companies are now using mobile resource management (MRM) systems and services. The MRM market is expected to grow from 5 million units in 2011 to 7.5 million in 2014, with a current market size […]
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01/25/2012
SCTE SEMI Confab Details Released
More than a dozen panels across three different tracks—Strategy, Outside Plant/Fleet and Facilities—will be conducted during the all-day SCTE SEMI (Smart Energy Management Initiative) Forum, set for March 15 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Presenters include representatives of Alpha Technologies, ARRIS Group, Bloom Energy, CableLabs, Cisco, Comcast, Coppervale, Cox Enterprises, Motorola Mobility, Power Networks, Quest […]
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11/01/2011
Going Green Makes A Good Investment
Facing a perfect storm of rising power costs, increasing demand for bandwidth and the resultant strain on existing facilities, the cable industry is looking for ways to reduce energy consumption and to increase access to alternative sources. Specifically, according to Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) statistics, in 2010, the cable industry paid some $1 […]
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03/01/2011
Tires On The Road, Apps In The Cloud
The opportunity for service companies to capture significant market share and revenue from the burgeoning machine-to-machine (M2M) communications phenomenon is upon us. The M2M market is poised for rapid, organic growth as the things we purchase, rent and use will become integrated into what some have called an “Internet of things.” Literally, our things – […]
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10/01/2010
Manage Those Mobile Workforce Expenses
Wireless technology is a productivity and efficiency enabler for today’s mobile workforce. Corporate fleets use GPS and location-based services (LBS) to track the whereabouts of fleet vehicles, to identify field resources near a specific job site for dispatch and to optimize travel routes to avoid traffic congestion. Transportation and logistics companies have deployed LBS to […]
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05/11/2010
Ops Can Micro-Manage Installers with New Technology
How many cable techs want to have their productivity measured on a minute-by-minute, real-time basis? That’s what new workforce software created by TOA Technologies can do. With TOA’s predictive analytics, operators can monitor all field activities down to the level of the individual technician; it also can schedule appointments based on how long it usually […]