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Today, Axis shows us how security personnel can keep track of video cameras while they are on patrol and NEC Solutions describes how users can synchronize their PDAs without having to use their notebooks.
Axis Communications' Axis Camera Explorer (ACE) enables security personnel to keep an eye on security cameras while patrolling large offices, warehouses, or shopping malls.
ACE for Pocket PC 2002 devices lets users receive video from Axis' network video cameras. The company says the software receives video over a wireless network access point and has built-in functions that alerts users when they are out of range. The software then automatically resumes when the user gets back into range of the access point. Users can also switch between preset network cameras so monitoring multiple sites can be automated, Axis says. Images from the cameras can be scaled and rotated to fit the Pocket PC's display area and to view different picture orientations.
Customers who already own a license for ACE for PCs and workstations can get the Pocket PC version for free from the Axis Web site (www.axis.com) at the end of September.
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NEC Solutions recently unveiled its MobilePro Synchronization System, a synchronization and mobile data management software application. The server-based software includes features such as remote data security, disaster recovery, PIM functions, and file distribution. NEC says the software sits behind the firewall to better control and secure information sent to and from mobile devices.
The software lets IT managers see the software and systems of each remote device connected to the server. It lets system administrators automatically update each device in the field with the most recent application versions and system updates. When a user synchronizes, system information for that device is stored on the server. In the case of a device crash, or if it runs out of power, the device can regain its system and applications during the next synchronization.
The software also includes one-click synchronization to Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange, enabling PDA and handheld users to synchronize those applications without having to use their notebooks, NEC says. Finally, the software lets administrators send file-specific updates to the mobile work force through either a predetermined schedule or periodically (such as downloading a new price list each week). NEC says that only changes from the previous file sent would need to be downloaded, saving bandwidth and time for the download.
The new software will ship embedded and preconfigured on all NEC MobilePro P300 and MobilePro 790 handheld devices, but can also be purchased as a stand-alone platform. (For more information, go to www.necsolutions-am.com/mobilesolutions)
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Keith Shaw is Reviews Editor at Network World. In addition, he writes the "Cool Tools" column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile computing devices.
You can reach Keith at kshaw@nww.com.
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