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Security & Surveillance
Sprint incorporated FireViewer software into its remote surveillance and control platform for the educational market. School administrators can monitor classroom video feeds, lock and unlock doors, sound alarms, and refer to campus maps, all from FireViewer software on Treo 600 smartphones. The U.S. Secret Service used FireViewer to carry custom maps of buildings and venues. The U.S. Navy Seals purchased FireViewer software in volume, for an undisclosed application. Kawaju Techno Service Corporation Ltd (Japan) purchased the FireViewer platform to deliver factory floor video feeds to quality assurance personnel. |
Field Reference Guides
Medtronic deployed FireViewer to over a thousand salespeople for field reference of complex medical products, including zoomable images and video, on inexpensive handheld PDAs. Novartis, the Swiss drug giant, followed suit a few months later. General Motors used FireViewer in volume to create exhaustive handheld manuals for exhibitors at the Detroit Motor Show, reduced training costs and providing a reference to beam to fleet buyers' PDAs. Several U.S. and Canadian medical schools have purchased FireViewer software in volume to provide ready reference material to students (See Field Force Automation, 9/01). |
CREATE. To create a document for
distribution over the FireViewer platform, simply edit one or more Web
pages using your favorite HTML editor, such as Microsoft FrontPage or
Macromedia Dreamweaver. Then, using FireViewer Suite or
FirePublisher Server, save this content as a FireViewer object file.
It's that simple.
DISTRIBUTE. The FireViewer platform can distribute content in every way a PDA can. This means your organization is never stuck with a commitment to a particular delivery mode, such as HotSync, wireless, or email. Want to email your Palm users a single file containing 100 pages of schematics? You can. Beam that document, or a single page, to the guy sitting next to you? No problem. Configure a thousand Palm devices to update automatically from a centralized product database? Sure. Monitor multiple video security cameras, live, from your wireless mobile device? We do that. Distribute searchable encyclopedias of emergency response procedures on memory stick, including escape route maps? Easy. The FireViewer platform, and only the FireViewer platform, offers this level of flexibility to PDA users. You can change your distribution plans at any time, and still reuse 100% of your mobile application development work. It's safely stored in open-standard HTML, so you are never locked in. FireViewer content is distributed via four components: FireConverter, FirePublisher, FireProducer, and the Web Development Kit. These are explained in greater detail at the <Platform Components> page.
DEPLOY. Solutions built on the FireViewer platform may be viewed using FireViewer for PalmOS. It is compatible with over 96% of all Palm devices ever made, covering dozens of models, including all new PalmOS devices. So your organization need not standardize on a particular device. FireViewer even runs well on the very cheapest Palm hardware, such as a low-end Palm Zire, or the most decrepit Palm IIIc. Naturally, FireViewer supports all the features of the more advanced devices, too -- from wireless connectivity to high-speed ARM chip support.
Stanford Medical School
When Stanford Medical School committed to buy Palm Vx handhelds for all their students, they met a problem: how to maintain mobile multimedia quickly and easily, without requiring students or sysadmins to learn new skills. The answer: FireViewer. By drafting image-rich course materials in HTML, and pushing updates via FirePublisher, materials were updated on every HotSync. Only FireViewer let Stanford incorporate complex draggable, zoomable, hyperlinked images, such as CAT and PET scans. |
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin management tasked their intranet group with sending custom maps and diagrams to field employees in critical roles, including their Emergency Response Team and field repair staff. They chose to evaluate FireViewer's client/server system as an easy way to publish custom maps on demand, as well as images that can be seamlessly integrated within complex text descriptions. Password authentication permits secure transmission of data to devices in the field. |
Handheld devices are a new and sometimes wild corner of the computing world. Standards have been slow to arrive, technologies have been orphaned, and, to be blunt, many vendors have gone belly-up in recent years, leaving their customers high and dry.
The FireViewer platform stands in sharp contrast. In commercial release since 1997, the FireViewer handheld software is one of the longest established and most widely used PDA applications in the world.
Moreover, FireViewer uses Web-standard data formats as inputs, so any content you build on the FireViewer platform enjoys the absolute stability and reliability of open standards. It's impossible to be orphaned or locked in.
Finally, FireViewer's handheld software is compatible with over 96% of Palm devices ever made, covering dozens of models from 9 different manufacturers. Your organization need not take the risk of early standardization on a handheld device vendor -- today, tomorrow, or ever.
If you need a mobile application solution that is bulletproof to supplier risk, consider FireViewer. Your organization can push standardization decisions -- handheld hardware, desktop tools, etc. -- far into the future.
FireViewer provides stability and security in uncertain times.
FireViewer makes your mobile solution design process faster, cheaper and simpler, by providing a profusion of choices in how you can create, deliver and customize your handheld applications.
If you've searched the Web for other handheld application vendors, then you know that no one else comes close to this level of solution-centered flexibility.