some interesting questions

GPS Wireless 2007 Set for March


December 28, 2006 | 11:48 AM


Mobile Information Markets Conference scheduled for March 1-2 in San Francisco.

For the 11th year—longer than any other conference in the industry—GPS-WIRELESS 2007 brings the top executives together to discuss the important navigation, location based services, fleet and asset management, online portal, personal location and homeland security markets. These industry leaders will assess both the consumer and business-to-business markets. Go beyond the hype-and gain critical market information at GPS-WIRELESS 2007.

Some Topics Covered at GPS-WIRELESS 2007:

New Panel for 2007: How the online portals are driving the mobile information market.

Asset monitoring that includes heavy equipment, containers, high-value goods. Will this market take off? When? What companies will dominate? What technologies will dominate, i.e. RFID, A-GPS?

What LBS applications will dominate? How will cell phone navigation system acceptance compare to portable and installed navigation systems? What other LBS apps will consumers want? Child tracking? Games? Location-based traffic?

Field Force Automation and Logistics/Transportation application providers are jumping on the LBS bandwagon and beginning to integrate mobile worker location into their apps—from cell phones, Blackberrys and other devices. We think this market will grow fast, since some of these are large companies with a lot of enterprise customers.

Will carriers release location data to resellers?

What's new with Portable Navigation Systems' markets? New players are coming on strong. The PNS market is hot—but are the units still too expensive? Can anybody put a dent in the current leader's market share? Will the units ever have wireless connectivity?

Will other features become available such as satellite radio, traffic information and more content?

Is there a future for aftermarket telematics systems? One company dominates—will others follow?

What are the cool new markets…GPS in shoes, Real Estate?

Homeland security markets…still strong?

What about factory-installed telematics? Will it be dominated by the same companies?

Fleet AVL: How will trends, new players, new communications links (GPRS, etc.) change the market? What is the availability of the GPS-enabled phone vs. installed devices? How is the GPS-enabled phone growing the market?

Will trailer monitoring be a big market?

Location-based advertising: Will it happen?

GPS-WIRELESS offers 12 hours of networking time, including our industry-best hosted reception that will offer informative tabletop displays.

http://www.gps-wireless.com/agenda.htm