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Excellent special section in the Economist on Wireless and Sensor Networks

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The Economist presents the best overview I’ve seen yet of the future of wirelessly connected devices in A world of connections.

“New wireless technologies will link not just people but lots of objects too. That will be tremendously useful… but getting there will be tricky”

It looks like the introductory article is available at the link above, but for the whole thing you’ll need to be a subscriber, or you can purchase the magazine on the newsstand.

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3 Responses to “Excellent special section in the Economist on Wireless and Sensor Networks”

  1. Anne Says:
    May 26th, 2007 at 2:52 am

    Hi Cooper Marcus,

    I am a postgraduate student in Sydney doing a marketing project about a parking payment system.

    We have access to a lot of academic resources via the university of course but surveys about consumer behaviour related to car parking seem to be in short supply. Mainly knowledge of criteria rated high by people driving from suburbs to work or shop (and park) in the city would be of great value to us. Do you know if there exist such surveys that are freely available to students or can be requested through uni databases?

    Anne

  2. cooper Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    Hi Anne,
    Sorry, I don’t know offhand of any such research. I do know that drivers typically care about proximity to destination, price, and safety or security when choosing where to park. If you find some research, please share your results with me and the other readers of this blog!

    Thanks, Cooper

  3. Anne Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    Thank you for your answer. I have a lot of info now, however, limited research about consumer behaviour. Survey results etc are not “spot on” but piece by piece a market profile emerges. Sources are mainly about Australia :-) if you are interested just ask and I can share the info.

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