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Mobile computing is one of the biggest issues of computer
technology, science and industry today. This book looks at the
requirements of developing mobile computing systems and the
challenges they pose to computer designers. It examines the
requirements of mobile computing hardware, infrastructure and
communications services. Information security and the data
protection aspects of design are considered, together with
telecommunications facilities for linking up to the worldwide
computer infrastructure. The book also considers the mobility of
computer users versus the portability of the equipment. The text
also examines current applications of mobile computing in the
public sector and future innovative applications.
Automation is nothing new to industry. It has a long tradition on
the factory floor, where its constant objective has been to
increase the productivity of manufacturing processes. Only with the
advent of computers could the focus of automation widen to include
administrative and information-handling tasks. More recently,
automation has been extended to the more intellectual tasks of
production planning and control, material and resource planning,
engineering design, and quality control. New challenges arise in
the form of flexible manu facturing, assembly automation, and
automated floor vehicles, to name just a few. The sheer complexity
of the problems as well as the state of the art has led scientists
and engineers to concentrate on issues that could easily be
isolated. For example, it was much simpler to build CAD systems
whose sole objective was to ease the task of drawing, rather than
to worry at the same time about how the design results could be
interfaced with the manufacturing or assembly processes. It was
less problematic to gather statistics from quality control and to
print reports than to react immediately to first hints of
irregularities by inter facing with the designers or manufacturing
control, or, even better, by auto matically diagnosing the causes
from the design and planning data. A heav- though perhaps
unavoidable - price must today be paid whenever one tries to
assemble these isolated solutions into a larger, integrated system.
Mobile computing is one of the biggest issues of computer
technology, science and industry today. This book looks at the
requirements of developing mobile computing systems and the
challenges they pose to computer designers. It examines the
requirements of mobile computing hardware, infrastructure and
communications services. Information security and the data
protection aspects of design are considered, together with
telecommunications facilities for linking up to the worldwide
computer infrastructure. The book also considers the mobility of
computer users versus the portability of the equipment. The text
also examines current applications of mobile computing in the
public sector and future innovative applications.
Automation is nothing new to industry. It has a long tradition on
the factory floor, where its constant objective has been to
increase the productivity of manufacturing processes. Only with the
advent of computers could the focus of automation widen to include
administrative and information-handling tasks. More recently,
automation has been extended to the more intellectual tasks of
production planning and control, material and resource planning,
engineering design, and quality control. New challenges arise in
the form of flexible manu facturing, assembly automation, and
automated floor vehicles, to name just a few. The sheer complexity
of the problems as well as the state of the art has led scientists
and engineers to concentrate on issues that could easily be
isolated. For example, it was much simpler to build CAD systems
whose sole objective was to ease the task of drawing, rather than
to worry at the same time about how the design results could be
interfaced with the manufacturing or assembly processes. It was
less problematic to gather statistics from quality control and to
print reports than to react immediately to first hints of
irregularities by inter facing with the designers or manufacturing
control, or, even better, by auto matically diagnosing the causes
from the design and planning data. A heav- though perhaps
unavoidable - price must today be paid whenever one tries to
assemble these isolated solutions into a larger, integrated
system."
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