Quah wants more evidence
Speaking at the launch of a United Nations Foundation report into the impact of mobile technology on the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the developing world, Danny Quah, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, welcomed the research but said more evidence of benefits is needed, reports ZDNet.co.uk.
The survey, Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs, is made up of interviews with around 560 NGOs and looks at how mobile technology benefits the operational efficiency of the organisations themselves as well as how the groups provide technology for use by communities in developing countries.
Quah said that while the case studies provided valuable evidence, the lack of top-line figures and extrapolation about the financial costs of mobile technology versus the benefits it has provided to developing countries limited the value of the study.
Substations remotely maintained
EDF Energy Networks (EDFEN) is monitoring the performance of 400 electricity substations in south-east England using mobile routing technology, says Computing.
Sarian software configures and manages the substations remotely, diagnosing problems so that EDFEN can resolve them without sending in an engineer.
Wireless routers from Sarian were rolled out over a six-month period and EDFEN is using the devices to link its legacy monitoring system to a wireless IP network.
Texas gets onBoard
East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System Emergency Medical Services has deployed In Motion's onBoard Mobile Gateway and onBoard Mobility Manager, says BusinessWire.
The onBoard Mobile Gateway turns each emergency vehicle into a secure wireless network, enabling all data devices, such as ECGs, patient care records and dispatch systems, to work together.
It allows the seamless transmission of information between these systems and operations command and area hospitals while emergency vehicles are at incident scenes and in transit. The onBoard Mobility Manager enables operations to monitor vehicle location and network health.
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