Re: Application Requirements
Re: Application Requirements
- Subject: Re: Application Requirements
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:10:44 +0000
Don't you think that using BT modules for tags would make them VERY expensive
tags?
-------------- Original message --------------
> Thanks for getting back to me Luc!
>
> And thanks for the pointers. I've checked them out and there is good
> info there as well as in the examples. However, here is what I'm
> looking to do.
>
> Let's say I'm managing inventory in a warehouse and I have a 12"
> PowerBook (Bluetooth-enabled), a hand-held wand (Bluetooth-enabled) and
> all around me are products that each have their own RFID (Bluetooth)
> tag on them.
>
> In front of me is a crate of widgets, each widget with an RFID tag. I
> take the wand, which is associated with my PowerBook via Bluetooth, and
> I touch one of the products with the tag. Immediately on my screen a
> window opens with information about this product. Let's say this
> products is a custom-built !
motorcycle and the window has info about the
> motorcycle. Maybe I add more info, noting that a custom seat was added
> to the motorcycle, I save and walk down the warehouse.
>
> There is a pallet of new products now and each product has a tag. I
> touch the wand to a product and up comes a window which allows me to
> add new data about this product. But instead of typing all this data in
> there is a board nearby which I can use to do data entry. On the board
> are various RFID tags, each one representing a value, or group of
> values, back in the database. I touch a tag and information about the
> product is immediately entered. I touch another tag and a set of
> information is entered.
>
> Make sense?
>
> I've seen this done before but want to know if I can do it with an
> Apple and the Bluetooth SDK they have now or with Tiger.
>
> Thanks for you!
r time!
>
> Jon
>
> On Sep 28, 2004, at 6:
37 AM, luc bergevin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not sure of what you're asking exactly. For the examples of
> > Bluetooth for Apple, see on your Mac:
> > /Developer/Examples/Bluetooth/
> >
> > For a guide, see:
> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/
> > Bluetooth/BT_Intro/chapter_1_section_1.html
> >
> > For your app, I do not have enough info to really understand, but I
> > would be happy to help you with more info.
> >
> > :-)
> > luc bergevin.
> >
> >
> > Le 04-09-28, à 07:27, Jon Wynacht a écrit :
> >
> >> Hmmm...did I ask too many questions? Hope not...;-(
> >>
> >> On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:38 AM, Jon Wynacht wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm be!
ginning to get into Bluetooth technology and have some
> >>> application requirements which I'd like to run across this list to
> >>> see if:
> >>>
> >>> 1. They are viable given the current Bluetooth SDK.
> >>>
> >>> 2. If not, will they be with the Tiger release?
> >>>
> >>> 3. Are there any Apple examples, or others for that matter, which I
> >>> can use as a guide?
> >>>
> >>> The app is a basic data entry and reporting tool to manage inventory
> >>> of product. The idea is that each product has a Bluetooth tag which
> >>> is read by a wand which then brings up either the product
> >>> information, if already in the database or a new entry screen to put
> >>> the data into the database. The cool thing here is that the computer
>!
; >>> will not be used by the person taking/managing inventor
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