Shipping,Receiving,and Warehousing Introduces: Bluetooth Wireless Technology

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Shipping,Receiving,and Warehousing
IntroducesBluetooth Wireless Technology

• Carly Carruthers
• Marta Jankovic
• Jeaneen Lindholm

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Bluetooth What is it?

• Personal Area Network
• Cable-replacement technology
• Transmits info at frequency to receiver chip
• Receiver chip gives info to device
• Chips plugged into electronic devices
• Examples cellular phones, PDAs, printers, bar
  code scanners

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Bluetooth and

• PROS
• Low power, cost, complexity
• Noisy environment operation
• Frequency hopping
• Range (100m)
• Eliminates manual procedures

• CONS
• Out-of-date
• Unreliability
• Multiple transceivers
• Reduce need for workers
• Employee resistance to change

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Technology Evaluation Template
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TET Cntd.
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Recommendation

• Choice Silicon Wave
• WHY?
• Lower cost
• Better support
• Higher performance
• Newer version compliance