IP6 vision implimentation
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This paper and corresponding presentation will present the topic of the United Parcel Service wireless tracking system as part of its global package delivery business. Specifically, this paper will center on the Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD), and will enumerate the capabilities, and technologies introduced and used in this new device as part of the overall tracking system used by United Parcel Service. Further, This paper will discuss the how the DIAD deconflicts the numerous technologies it uses, such as Bluetooth, 802.11b, GPRS, CDMA and GPS in its everyday use.
In beginning the discussion of the DIAD, it is important to have an overview of the overall United Parcels Services entire package delivery tracking network to understand how the DIAD plays its part in the overall scheme of insuring timely and accurate delivery of a customer's package whether it is across town or across the globe. The United Parcel Service plans to spend $127 million over the next five years on global deployment of a new driver terminal that features built-in cellular, wireless LAN and Bluetooth short-range wireless systems. This is expenditure includes new capabilities across the entire network. I will address only a couple of the newest innovations. First focusing on the innovations at the hub of the operations, the centralized database and the ring scanner, I will give a brief introduction of each. Then address the new technologies to eventually be used at the beginning and end of the journey for all packages, the DIAD IV...