1. Telecommuting
Employers are already finding it easier to have their employees and agents work from remote locations. This increases mobility and reduces time spent unnecessarily commuting. With wireless technology ever decreasing in size, more and more job positions will have employees on the move, perhaps visiting clients, and working in a team environment at the same time by means of wireless communications. In time, physical commuting to and from work may become the grind of very few workers who need to physically attend their workplace. In addition, students can study more and more from home rather than travel to a brick and mortar classroom.
2. News Video and Audio
Cheaper and smaller wireless broadcasting devices will enable amateurs and professionals alike to produce content almost instantly and post their content without needing a physical connection to the internet to upload from. The speed at which news recordings can reach distribution sites will be outpaced only by the diversity of sources that will be able to produce and distribute news content with the smaller, cheaper and more widely available wireless technologies.
3. Cordless Telephony
Gradually, cell phones have incorporated the functions of a computer to produce technologies such as the black berry and I-Phone which are practically miniature computers. With the spread of portable wireless routers, laptop computers are now poised to take over from phones all together. VoIP systems and digital phone set up software such as Asterisk will make it possible for businesses and individuals to administer and maintain their own phone systems. Wireless technology will allow these phone systems to allow communication between multiple remote laptop devices.
4. Sensor Security
Wireless security systems can detect a intruders to businesses and private property without the need for flesh and blood security guards or even in conjunction with security guards. With smaller and cheaper microchips, wireless sensor nets can be established even on a modest budget, greatly enhancing a mid-size business or industry to protect itself from potential attackers.
5. Remote Monitors, Speakers and Controllers
Televisions, stereos and video games are less and less tied to their respective cords, wires and switches and are moving toward wireless connections. The mass tangle of cords found behind most T.V. sets since appliances such as VCRs, DVD players, and Nintendos began appearing on entertainment consoles across the world is soon to become a nuisance of the past. More manufacturers than ever before are incorporating wireless transmission into their designs with the explicit aim of eliminating cords than just get in the way when the products are being used in the home or workplace. Most video game systems already feature wireless remote controls.0
6. Wireless Personal Computers
It is expected that personal computers will soon follow the path of old style LAN telephone lines. With increasingly small microchips allowing wireless communication on an unlimited and cost effective scale, most of the functions of a desktop computer can be performed by a laptop or even a handheld wireless system. The internet is no longer confined to Ethernet cables or phone lines. Wireless routers that are the size of thumb or even a pinky finger will quickly make a heavy immobile PC an outdated and uncompetitive machine.
7. Sensor Net Smoke Detectors
The old style smoke detectors found in most homes today will soon be replaced by wireless systems linked directly to fire departments in the local community. Wireless sensors utilize advanced sensor nets to detect smoke or fire within a given physical environment. Since the technology needed to maintain such a sensor net is rapidly becoming cost effective for businesses and even personal residences.
8. Entirely wireless networks
Businesses and offices will no longer need a physical office to have their employees work from. With the proliferation of wireless technology, employees can connect to business networks form just about any remote location, whether they are in transit or at home. The reduced need for physical offices will result in less commuting and greater efficiency for even small businesses.
9. Wireless Advertisements
The greater and greater inundation of advertisements in modern Western society has made it more and more difficult for a would-be advertiser to get a consumer’s attention. Wireless technology will allow advertisers to reach consumers directly on their personal computer and laptops connected to a wireless network. Wireless airwaves are already being used to transmit targeted ads to specific cell phone users and wireless networks.
10. Wireless Anywhere
With new wireless technology, there are few to no dead spots on a modern wireless network. This opens up the technologies usefulness as it can be used from anywhere in a building or space or even a city or state. Imagine camping and receiving wireless network signals way out in the middle of nowhere.
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