Building Location Based Services
In an increasingly mobile world, one with web-based technologies like Google maps easily accessible, many businesses are investigating how they harness these tools for business advantage without breaking the bank:
Luigi Cappel, an expert in wireless technologies, will discuss some of his experience of building and delivering such technology at GeoSmart.
Date: 26 April 2011
Time: 5.30pm start - 7.00pm finish
Price: $25 per person includes platters and drinks
(Cancellations received after Friday 22 April and 'no shows' will be charged)
Venue: Massey University E-centre
Gate 5, Oaklands Road, Massey University, Albany
Luigi Cappel has been with GeoSmart for 7 years and has been known over the years as a wireless and mobile computing, and location based services evangelist. He has written and published a number of books and white papers including Unleashing The Road Warrior, Mastering Your Palm and Mastering Your Pocket PC. He has chaired and or spoken at ICT conferences in NZ and many countries around the world. He has been involved in several leading edge developments in the ICT industry, owned and ran 2 successful business and had long career stints in companies including Telecom, Tait Electronics, Monaco Corporation and Datachecker.
He was a founding member and first elected President of the NZ Wireless and Broadband Forum, has been a Vice President of Sales & Marketing Executives International for NZ and been on executive committees for many other organisations over the years. He is a member of the World Future Society as well as completing a Songwriting degree online at Berklee College of Music in Boston MA.
Around 4 years ago a field services company with around 170 vehicles came to GeoSmart looking to optimise the services delivered by employees in over 100 vehicles in order to meet their contractual obligations efficiently and profitably. A core motivation for the company was that petrol prices had just gone up significantly and they were having to allow for an additional cost of almost $100,000 for the remainder of 2 ½ calendar months in the year. GeoSmart developed an end to end solution for the company, including very expensive in-vehicle technology as there wasn’t a solution available from vendors in the country at the time. The end result was that they not only met their objectives, but ended up competing so successfully in their market segments that they purchased several smaller competitors who did not have the resources to invest in a similar solution.
GeoSmart is a part of the New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) and is now offering New Zealand developers to take advantage of some of the technology developed as a part of this and number of other projects.
If you've got something that you believe will be of interest to other software developers, please contact Igor Portugal, igorp@vadacom.co.nz or 09 9690603.
