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PMG: the Personal Mobile Gateway - Creating a true pan!

IXI Mobile Inc., inventor of the PMG, is committed to the original Bluetooth promise of new usage models with wirelessly connected devices forming a PAN. Their software solution enables true networking (point to multi-point) among Bluetooth enabled devices.

Quick PMG definition
The Personal Mobile Gateway (PMG), acts as a bridge between mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, digital cameras and other devices. The PMG combines cellular (e.g. GSM/GPRS, CDMA, etc.) and short distance wireless (e.g. Bluetooth or other technologies like WiFi), with micro-router and micro-server functionalities.
What is a PMG enabled phone?
A PMG Phone is a Bluetooth phone with software from IXI Mobile called IXI-Connect.

1. On an ordinary Bluetooth phone the only applications that can be supported over the physical link are those that are well standardized and preloaded (cable replacement applications: headset profile, serial cable profile, and USB profile). The PMG architecture defines an application level connectivity on top of the physical Bluetooth channel, thus enabling new applications.

2. The PMG Phone behaves like LAN/Router; users are connected to the network so long as the PMG is within the range of the Notebook/PDA or the connected Sleek Devices. Users keep IP sessions open while they receive phone calls and get back to the IP session immediately after the call.

3. The PMG creates a true PAN (Personal Area Network). The Sleek Devices connected to the PMG can be assigned a temporary IP address, be always "on", and access the cellular network simultaneously. They can route information between themselves and access shared resources of the PAN.
PMG World
Geekzone Mobile Forum
As any new technology, IXI solution will benefit from the network effect (Metcalfe's Law - The usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the square of the number of users of the network). The more device manufacturers will embed IXI-Connect software the better it will be. Today, some key industry players that have adopted this software solution include Samsung, Sanyo and Seiko Instruments.

Decentral Control, ubicomp-based functions change processes, services and eventually products

Good products want to communicate!

Combine esthetic with functional communication
Your product becomes your agent
Smart things evoke emotions
Smart things are starting point to services
Product, process and service design merge

Proximity servers: the first step before personal area networks

We'll soon see "proximity servers" being introduced into social areas such as shops. These can push catalog information and enable shopping-by-phone when you're in the store. Or download program notes to your phone while you're in the opera lobby.

The Koreans already have tens of thousands in use. These local points allow you to download software or updates onto your phone while you're in a Radio Shack. The driver isn't just software, of course, but a bigger prize: M-Commerce. "Shop" buttons are increasingly common on Asian phones and a Bluetooth-enabled handset will allow the vendor to push special offers at you.

Wideray
WideRay stations are a familiar feature at trade shows, dispatching the show agenda and exhibitor details to Palm and PocketPC PDAs. At the back end it takes GSM/GPRS or Ethernet in, has room for cached data and is capable InfraRed or Bluetooth or 802.11 out. (It's really a small Linux box, and you can add your own software to extend the platform).

Pervasive human-centered computing

Bringing abundant computation and communication, as pervasive and free as air, naturally into people's lives.

Applications

Personal area networks could open up a asynchronous social exchanges... where people will leave photos or messages on the message board of that area.

Mesh MMS

Internet of things

"In the future, every single object will be connected to the Internet through a wireless address and unique identifier. The Auto-ID center is creating the standards that will shape this new age" - Dirk Heyman, Sun Microsystems

Auto-ID Center