Technology In: Everyday Life Government Future

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• Andrew Janowitz
• Alison Crue
• Joseph Wielepski

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GPS in Everyday Life

• Used most often in cars
• Built into dashboard or installed later with an
  attachment
• Helps the directionally challenged
• Allows for hands free navigation
• Also now available on some cell phones and PDAs

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RFIDs In Everyday Life

• Found most often in stores as anti theft devices
  or to track inventory
• Also used in toll collection technology (EZ Pass)

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Bluetooth Technology in Everyday life

• Allows you to connect two devices without the use
  of wires.
• Most commonly used to connect cell phones to
  wireless headsets for hands free talking
• Also used for a wireless mouse or keyboard

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VOIP in Everyday Life

• Voice over Internet Protocol
• Provided by companies such as Vontage, Viatalk,
  ConnectVoip, and ITP
• Transfers sound data in packets making it cheaper
  than traditional land lines
• Can be used for home or office
• Many people are switching and using VOIP in
  everyday life because of features such as
  voicemail alerts and free long distance

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Biometrics in Everyday Life

• Technology used to identify or authenticate a
  person using a part of their body
• Many employers and even schools are using to help
  with security or to replace meal plan and library
  cards

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Cell Phones in Everyday Life

• Cell phones have become so popular it seems that
  everyone has one
• Makes it very easy to contact people via text
  message or phone call
• You can store phone numbers so you can contact
  anyone at the touch of a button rather than have
  to look up or memorize numbers
• Provide an element of safety because they allow
  you to call for help in the event of car trouble
  or an emergency no matter where you are

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GPS in Military

• Coordinate the movement and find location of
  troops and supplies
• Weapons targeting
• ICBM
• Smart Bombs
• UAVs and Robots

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GPS in Law Enforcement

• Track missing people
• Cell phones (Enhanced 911)
• Find quick directions to locations
• Find and monitor other officers and vehicles

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RFID

• Track troops in Military
• In secure facilities, hospitalized troops, in the
  field
• Track prisoners
• Prisoners wear wrist bands that monitor and alert
  personnel as to their location at a given time
• Passports
• Insure authentication
• Firefighters

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Biometrics

• Military
• Iraq use retina and finger print scanners to
  gain entrance and verify friendly employees and
  workers at bases and camps
• First use in war/post war efforts
• Entrance to secure areas
• Robots

• Police
• Authenticate Inmates
• Handheld Bio-kits
• Small PDA with camera, fingerprint reader, and
  recorder
• Scan large public areas for potential threats
• Football games.
• Weapons
• Smart weapons

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GPS Systems

• Will become standard in everyday life
• All cars, cell phones, palm pilots
• GPS watches http//www.a-watches.com.au/img/pr0001
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• Become more affordable
• Standard in locating even household items
• You ever get lost???

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RFID Tags

• Radio Frequency Identification--- Can keep track
  of a person, animal, or anything via radio waves
• Passive power source Active no power source
• Today used to track humans, pets, EZ-Pass
  (tolls), Smart Codes (Wal-Mart)

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RFID Tags

• Put into human permanently
• Supply chain management
• Car starting
• Door Openings
• Will it replace barcodes one day??
• What about paper work?

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Bluetooth

• It is a radio technology to transmit over short
  distances
• Uses piconets (networks)
• Popular today in
• Cell phones
• Video games
• Cameras
• Remote controls

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Future of Bluetooth

• Everything you use in every day life could be
  operated via Bluetooth
• Such as from a chip in your cell phone, you can
  cook dinner, record TV shows and set the timer on
  the dishwasher

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VoiP

• A general definition is your phone/internet line
  is used simultaneously. For example the
  Comcast/Time Warner Triple Play and Verizon Fios.
• Will be very helpful for big businesses with
  easier communication and cheaper rates than a
  standard land line
• www.examiner.com/a710386Gary_Hermansen__The__real
  _geeky_side__of_VoIP.html

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Biometric Devices

• Used to study and recognize humans based on
  biological instincts
• Finger prints, retinas, voice, DNA can all be
  measured
• Mostly used at governmental areas, but now
  expanding into the commercial market

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Biometric Devices in the Future

• Use them at amusement parks and other crowded
  places.. Disney World
• Passports/airline tickets
• Protect from identity theft
• I think someday it will register you to go into
  your house eliminate keys.
• Homeland security in Israel soon to be in the US

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Cell Phones

• Present of telephone operations
• Many uses besides talking
• Texting, pictures, internet
• Future?

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What do you think?

• Now that we have learned all about new
  technologies will these be permanent or just a
  phase.
• Do you think that the world will be even more
  digital in 10 years?
• Compare now and 1997