Onboard Computing Utilizing Commodity Wireless Hardware; Within the freight transport and delivery industry, one application of technology that holds considerable promise for improved efficiency, expanded functionality, and enhanced customer service is that of on-board computing.  Here, technology can be (and has been) used to not only increase and improve communication between driver and dispatch, but also to simplify and streamline the capture and processing of proof of delivery and other transportation fulfillment data.  Today, numerous commercial solutions are available and in wide spread use by many transportation companies offering two-way communication and real-time vehicle geo-location.  However such systems carry significant implementation as well as on-going costs due, in part, to the proprietary nature of the overall solution.   This makes such technology difficult to justify for smaller companies who can neither afford the cost nor provide the technical support required to maintain such a system. One possible solution, which could open this type of technology to a wider audience, exists in the use of currently available commodity wireless phone hardware.   Compared to many of the solutions developed and marketed specifically to commercial transportation companies, a phone-based solution has the benefit of a "user" base that includes just about every adult in the industrialized world. continued... To read the complete version of this white paper, please see the form at right.

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