Since unveiling its MobileWeb Internet Web server/controller technology one year ago, CellPort Labs Inc. reports a diverse group of innovators are using the platform to develop wireless data applications.
The Boulder, Colo.-based company developed MobileWeb from its patented wireless phone interface technology designed for hands-free car kits. Building on the company’s universal handset port and controller, MobileWeb can function as a computer server for an Internet Web site or vehicular local area network, CellPort said.
“With MobileWeb, we’ve capitalized on the existing wireless infrastructure to connect vehicle-based devices, cellular, digital and other airlinks, and the Internet,” said CellPort President Pat Kennedy. “We provide the critical last three feet of connectivity to a total wireless data solution.”
CellPort said a variety of companies are working with the MobileWeb application development kit.
The Advanced Law Enforcement Response Technology (ALERT) project at the Texas Transportation Institute is using MobileWeb to integrate police vehicle communications and devices in public safety vehicles;
XYPoint Corp. is using it to develop systems and software for Intelligent Transportation Systems and commercial vehicle applications;
Federal Signal is developing fully integrated fire vehicles to provide sensor and data communications to remote command centers for two-way information flow and vehicle monitoring;
Geotek Communications Inc. is working on fleet and public safety applications;
VCCH Inc. is planning highway maintenance vehicles and agricultural combine instrumentation applications;
Tokyo-based Digital Media is providing instrumentation for cargo ships;
and a number of automotive manufacturers are developing MobileWeb-based data communications systems for next-generation consumer and commercial vehicles, CellPort said.
“Vehicle-based wireless data applications used to be expensive to develop and deploy. They seldom matched the flexibility, modularity or access to the wide range of information content available on the Internet,” noted CellPort’s Chief Technology Officer Michael Braitberg. “Further, these solutions were only affordable for the largest companies.”
“MobileWeb’s software development kit now brings the power to create a custom wireless data application to any company, large or small,” he said.
