Archive for 'Wireless Product Development' Category
Convenience, vulnerabilty and upgradeability in innovative product development
A growing theme in innovative product developments of the last decade is exploiting the benefits of connection. The public has shown time and again that it values the convenience of connection very highly. But there is a sometimes implicit trade-off. For instance, the rise of internet banking has been a gold mine for organised crime. The [...]
Innovation… On the Edge
As an innovative product development company we get involved – not surprisingly – with all sorts of new product development; from coffee machines through to cardiac monitors. But once in a while, we have to develop products that can work truly on the edge…. in some of the most inhospitable places in the world, [...]
Cambridge White Space Trial – first tweet over White Space by Cambridge Consultants?
One of the progenitors of innovative wireless product development is the adoption of new standards …The first radio concept along these lines is the use of the white space in the TV spectrum on allocation and time dependent basis to provide services such as rural broadband and yesterday we sent the first tweet over a white space link from our building at Cambridge Consultants to a subscriber terminal in Cottenham.
Innovative Product Development – where do I look for the opportunity?
New innovative product development has many engineering challenges, but most projects that fail won’t fail for engineering reasons, they’ll fail for business or organizational reasons. So how do you reduce these risks?
Are all the best technologies hidden or just intuitive?
When you work in an innovative product development culture, you get immersed in a whole range of cool, exciting, and sometimes funky new products and technology. However, it struck me last night that there is an unsung hero in nearly every office. One that we take for granted and never offer a moments thought to. And yet without its development as a product, our working lives would be very different.
Choices in sourcing product development
So you are planning to conduct a new product development. You’ve quite a number of choices:
You could in source – i.e.do it yourself if you have the capability
You could in source the design but augment your team
It’s all around us
It’s taken as a given that today you’ll have at least one mobile phone. It’s a device that’s in our pocket or on our desk that we use every day, but when was the last time we stopped to think about how it works? Why, for example when we’re out in a large crowd [...]
Whitespace technology – free coffee to go with your iPhone?
If you were given an iPhone (or any other brand of smart phone or mobile device for that matter) last Christmas, you may have noticed that things didn’t work quite as quickly as you might have hoped. Nothing to do with the phone; the issue lies with the nature of bandwidth and spectrum. Some networks have experienced a forty fold increase in traffic in just a few years with the obvious result. Put another way, it’s a bit like driving around a city at 3:00am on a Sunday morning as opposed to trying to do the same journey first thing on Monday morning.
