Real-Time Intelligence Visualization-RTIV…new term for your consideration

Real-time Intelligence Visualization (RTIV), as described in a recent ABI Research report, is a combination of various wireless technologies that can act as an integrated system and more importantly, "actionable business intelligence (BI)." These technologies include RFID, Ultra-wideband (UWB), and Wi-Fi, that are often used separately in certain real-time location systems (RTLS). The report suggest that, "These competitive, yet complementary wireless technologies, approaches, and solutions have historically been treated as independent silos, but they are now converging. In a growing number of end-user environments a combination of technologies is being used. For example, passive and active RFID may be used jointly for fixed and mobile asset tagging; Wi-Fi- and UWB-based RTLS solutions may be leveraged for hospital asset tracking; or a combination of GPS and active RFID may be employed for cargo tracking and security."

I’m not crazy about the term, but the concept, in principal, is sound and coincident with my views on where location intelligence systems are going. The convergence we are seeing in GIS/BI and with real-time data will form the foundation of location intelligent solutions. ABI Research suggests this is more RTIV.

UCrime Mashup Pinpoints Campus Crime…Just Slightly Off on Maps

Back in August, UCrime.com launched a website/mashup showing crimes committed at selected colleges and universities around the U.S. The company shares data with SpotCrime.com, another online crime alert mashup. I found the site extremely useful and will benefit students interested in understanding the types and locations of criminal activity on campus.

The maps are Google mashups which is fine. As usual, I selected campuses with which I was familiar and the first one I went to was my alma mater, Rutgers University in lovely New Brunswick, NJ. However, the map was centered on Matawan, NJ, a lovely place in its own right, but definitely not New Brunswick. So, it took some repositioning to get to the RU campus. So, guys at UCrime.com, if you are reading this…please take note that you should center the map on College Ave. New Brunswick.

ESRI on Twitter

ESRI is expanding its presence on Twitter. Recently I’ve found:

ESRI
ESRIUC
ESRIEDUC
esridevsummit

Check them out by adding those names to http://www.twitter.com/, for example http://www.twitter.com/esri

Just as it’s blog proliferation required an index, ESRI will soon need an index page for twitter.

Reacting to BASIC Contract

Seeking Alpha and The Space Review respond to the recent BASIC announcement.

Says Seeking Alpha, “I think that it’s obvious from where I stand that the government doesn’t need to launch two of their own satellites to compete with what is already available. ...

As far as we are concerned as stockholders, even if this program is approved next year and satellites are launched by early 2013, it does not affect our current investment thesis with shares of GeoEye, especially now that GeoEye-1 has successfully launched, and is almost ready to start taking usable imagery.”

The Space Review says we hoped for more from commercial imagery companies. “There was never any real possibility that, by the end of this decade, dozens of privately-owned spy satellites would be orbiting the Earth selling their pictures commercially while exposing human rights violations and helping to send polluters and other environmental criminals to jail.

Instead, we have a modest number of highly sophisticated spacecraft and a slightly larger number of relatively simple ones, mostly devoted to governmental purposes, above all military.”

Nokia “Indoor GPS” Public Implementation Coming this Year

This was demoed last year and coverage suggests such technology will be useful for finding seats in sports stadiums, parked cars, or specific stores in malls. Nokia’s already prototyping the app in 40 of its own buildings. Mapping of public places is also underway.A commercial trial will launch later this year at a shopping mall in Helsinki aimed at, hopefully among other things, figuring out how it can make money. It’ll be in Nokia’s Beta Labs, too.

- Nokia Conversations