Carmakers envisage vehicles communicating automatically with others nearby to signal road hazards or prevent accidents.
Bluetooth is the wireless standard that allows small devices like cell phones and laptops to communicate automatically.
In February, Qualcomm announced a new technology called FlashLinq, which allows devices to recognize one another and communicate automatically and continuously within a one-kilometer radius.
What's more, the infrastructure being set up by the consortium will communicate automatically with government agencies like U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
When higher-power transmission is allowed, says Lye Hoeng Fai, the firm's boss, he expects UWB to appear in cellular systems.Together, UWB and ad hoc architectures are a natural fit, since the UWB devices will have to locate each other and start communicating automatically, tasks that ad hoc networking readily facilitates.
The Internet of Everything (where every device can communicate automatically, be it a smart-phone or a smart-fridge) will continue to grow, further binding our consumer existence to technology.
Most major companies offer devices with wireless capabilities that communicate automatically with home transmitters, which then relay data to the physician, thereby allowing remote patient follow-up and monitoring.
The system communicates automatically by radiofrequency with the implantable device and sends data to the physician using the analogue landline system (a cellular adapter card is planned for 2009).
The actual advantages of an Anaesthesia Information Management System AIMSS) (which in our case is part of the ICIP) can only be realized if it is fully integrated with other health IT systems or if it is able to communicate automatically and bidirectionally with them [ 28, 29].
Then, the controller creates a program for loading and communicating automatically with drip or sprinkler system controllers.
