Mobile Technology

Think about technology you already know – technology like RFID, Windows Mobile 5, mobile applications, web mapping and GPS (even with all the data, file format and track log issues that are associated with it).

Consider the detailed mapping and hydrographic data that already exists.

Put all those existing technologies together – in a structured way – and you have something that’s a lot more than the sum of its parts.
And if you’re also dealing with a company that’s a Hydrographic Office OEM, an Ordnance Survey Developer Partner, and an Iridium partner, and has solid experience with satellite communications, satellite tracking, and Inmarsat low bandwidth transmissions, you’ve got something pretty special.

Which is just what AWS are offering.

We’re working with service-oriented architecture to build web mapping applications (with the right infrastructure for tracking anything that can carry an RFID), and a feature server that could, just as an example, store detailed data on 90,000 different farm fields across the UK.
We’re also working with mobile location-based services that can track a suitably equipped mobile phone as a moving dot on the map.
And we can do these things right now.

The potential is almost unlimited – so if you’d like a share in it, call AWS today.

In any organisation, staff are your key asset.

Their skills, their knowledge, their understanding, and their relationship with your clients keep you in business. Especially when they're working in remote or difficult environments.

Keeping in touch with them is more a good idea - it's part of your duty of care…

Did you know that 74% of all employers don’t know where to find their employees at any given time?

Think about it. Are any of your team working on their own? In places where they could be at risk?

If so, do you know where they are? And if not, are you really fulfilling your duty of care?

So how would it be if you had a way to check precisely where your people were, and even pinpoint their exact position on a map?

That’s what AWS mobile services can offer – that and much more…

How it can help you

Mobile services are all about keeping track of the things that matter to you. And in any company, it’s your people who matter most.

Suppose you wanted to keep track of a team of engineers working in a difficult or dangerous location? Using our Geopoint system you simply give each of them a pocket computer or a smart phone, which they carry at all times – and which uses GPS (the Global Positioning System) to report its position at regular intervals.

Your system can pick up these reports, and show the results on a map. You can even see them on a detailed satellite picture – ideal in more remote areas where maps alone could be misleading.
And, of course, only you and your authorised staff can see this data.
That way, if there’s a problem, you know exactly where everyone is – and you can quickly and easily communicate with them.

Or suppose you’re running the property management service for a chain of supermarkets – and you’re able to collate photographs taken on each site by date, time, and exact location?

Just two possible applications for mobile technology from AWS.
Isn’t it time you gave us a call?

How it's helped others - RNLI

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is a charity that provides a 24-hour lifesaving service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Volunteer crews give time and effort to carry out rescues in difficult and often dangerous conditions.

The RNLI wanted to improve safety on small fishing vessels by introducing a new automatic system that will quickly alert search and rescue authorities that a vessel is in serious difficulties. Often, fishermen from small craft were not registered as missing until family or friends contacted the Coastguard to report that a boat had failed to return to shore. This could be many hours after an incident, by which time the crew could be lost.

AWS worked with the RNLI to create a mapping and tracking application called MOB Guardian.

Read the full case study....

“Many organisations have shown interest in adopting this technology over the coming couple of years. We were pleased to apply sophisticated and proven Microsoft technology to such a worthy cause. MapPoint® service is helping to save more lives at sea.”
Richard Prodger – Technical Director AWS

“To sum up the project in one sentence: The MOB Guardian System helps to take the ‘search’ out of ‘search and rescue’.”
Michael Viasto — Operations Director RNLI