Final Customer Purchasing from the Product Producer
Maintain Steps: Maintain steps include all activities required to keep the product in working order. These steps include the costs the customer incurs to diagnose and correct product problems.
B.
Resources: Reduce resources required for the use of the product
3. Energy – Reduce the energy the customer uses with the product
a. Effort – Reduce the physical constraints on the customer
Overcome physical limitations of the user
Enable remote usage
| No. | SIC | Year | Note |
| 1 | 0 | 2002 | Object-to-object communication technology is growing at a rapid rate. Technology that can sense location is improving greatly, including short-range Bluetooth wireless systems and long-range Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Radio frequency identification (RFID) is used in the mining industry to track miners and their vehicles so as to know the location and duration underground of each miner, essential information in an emergency. Radio frequency identification (RFID) could even be used to track people, including children and incapacitated adults. |
| 2 | 3600 | 2002 | Gravitation, a three year old upstart in San Diego, has developed wireless sensor networks that allow customers to collect real-time information in hard-to-monitor places. |
| 3 | 3674 | 2002 | Radio frequency identification (RFID) is used in the mining industry to track miners and their vehicles so as to know the location and duration underground of each miner, essential information in an emergency. |
| 4 | 4812 | 2001 | Another Globalstar plan is to sell data services to companies that need to monitor far-flung operations, such as pipelines. With a modem designed by Qualcomm, users can send data such as pressure, flow and temperature to a far-off control center. |
| 5 | 4813 | 2001 | Iridium satellite phones may be rented for $125 a week and $1.84 per minute, a cheaper rate than using some calling cards in foreign phone booths and far cheaper than a hotel's phone rates. Iridium phones also have a solar panel charger, making them independent from sources of electricity. |
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