Wireless Interface A Coup For Gong Firm
Illawarra Mercury
Wednesday April 11, 2001
A Wollongong software development company has achieved a major environmental coup by helping to provide a wireless interface to the Australian Reusable Resources Network (ARRnet-work).
Illawarra Waste Management (IWM) has implemented wireless technology from Oracle Australia to help reduce landfill in one of the first business-to-business implementations of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) technology in Australia.
Bailey, Bailey and Bailey (BBB) was involved in the analysis, design and implementation of the project by developing a wireless interface that utilises short message system (SMS) and WAP technology to redirect Internet content to SMS and WAP compatible mobile phones.
BBB, Oracle's software solutions provider, developed the original ARRnetwork for Illawarra Waste Management in 1999.
The ARRnetwork is an Internet-based software system that allows businesses and individuals to dispose of, or acquire, recyclable materials free-of-charge by matching them up with other organisations and people looking to acquire or dispose of such materials.
ARRnetwork is currently accessed by computer, or by phone to the ARRnetwork call centre, but the new wireless version will enable users to access the network by WAP-enabled mobile phones, or standard mobile phones with SMS text message functionality.
Oracle9iAS Wireless Edition, which provides access to information from any source, is the key technology powering ARRnet-work's wireless interface.
BBB Business Development manager Nicholas Brazil said the Wireless interface was a major development for waste management in the construction industry.
``We are satisfying a very strong demand that exists in the marketplace as well as playing a key role achieving greater environmental responsibility," he said.
At present around 30 per cent of demolition waste is recovered for reuse or recycling but with the new WAP interface that figure is expected to significantly increase.
IWM is using Oracle's 9i Applications Server Wireless Edition to wirelessly enable its ARRnetwork.
The wireless feature is considered a boon for the construction industry as builders seldom have computers on site.
The industry is considered to be a heavy producer of recyclable waste, a million tonnes of construction waste ends up in NSW landfills each year, and IWM commissioned ARRnetwork's wireless interface to meet the industry's needs.
``Construction workers usually need to remove items from a site very quickly and they may also need to source materials within a tight time frame," IWM chairperson Vicky King said. ``ARRnetwork's wireless version offers workers, who seldom have computers on site, online access to the service via a WAP-enabled mobile phone."
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