1. Android
Industrial Mobility
Pietro F. Maggi

2. <Intro/>

3. Motorola “Solutions”
January 4th 2011 Motorola, Inc. was splitted in two separated companies: Mobile Devices and
Home businesses become Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc., and the Government and
Enterprise businesses become Motorola Solutions, Inc.
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS NYSE: MSI
Government and Enterprise
MOTOROLA MOBILITY NYSE: MMI
Consumer

4. Motorola “Solutions”
January 4th 2011 Motorola, Inc. was splitted in two separated companies: Mobile Devices and
Home businesses become Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc., and the Government and
Enterprise businesses become Motorola Solutions, Inc.
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS NYSE: MSI
Government and Enterprise
MOTOROLA MOBILITY NYSE: MMI
Consumer

5. Motorola “Solutions”
January 4th 2011 Motorola, Inc. was splitted in two separated companies: Mobile Devices and
Home businesses become Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc., and the Government and
Enterprise businesses become Motorola Solutions, Inc.
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS NYSE: MSI
Government and Enterprise
MOTOROLA MOBILITY NYSE: MMI
Consumer

6. Motorola “Solutions”
Enterprise Business
April 15th 2014 Motorola Solutions and Zebra
Technologies agreed on a “all cash” transaction
to sell the MSI enterprise business to Zebra for
$3.5B.

7. What is:
Industrial Mobility?
Enterprise Mobility
Industrial Mobility

8. <History/>

9. Once upon a time
DOS based character devices
Symbol PDT3100:
8MHz 80c80 type (NEC V25)
Applications:
In store (Inventory, Re-Order, etc), In
warehouse (Picking, Order
preparation) outside the 4 wall (route
accounting).

10. Consumer OS
PalmOS v3.5
(33MHz Motorola DragonBall/VZ)
PocketPC 2000, 20002, Windows Mobile
2003, 2005, 6.0, 6.1
(206MHz Intel StrongArm)
Plus custom drivers and libraries (WiFi,
Barcodes, deployment, etc)

11. Current days
• Windows Embedded HandHeld 6.5.3
• Windows Embedded Compact 7

12. 2014 & wearables
• Wearables for picking since 1990s

13. <FUTURE/>

14. So Many Choices
• Legacy is still an option (supported till 2020)
• WE8.1H has been announced by MSFT
• Android (dominant Consumer OS)
• Windows on Intel?

15. Importance of Consumer Success
IMPACT ON THE ENTERPRISE
1 “Zero Training” – familiar UI/Ux
2 Silicon Vendor & ODM/JDM Mindshare
3
Access To Programmer Resources & Tools &
Critical ISV Application Support
4
Leverage of Off-The-Shelf “Prosumer”
App Store Applications & Services
COLLABORATION
UTILS
CRM
APPS
5
“Outside-In”: From
Customers….To BYOD….To CLD
CUSTOMER APPS
EMPLOYEE BYOD
ASSOCIATE CLD’S
6
Unsuccessful Consumer Platforms Do Not
Survive; KIN: 4 months, WP7: 24 months, Maemo,
Bada (30 months)…
2013…2015...2020…
LONGEVITY

16. Why Android Now?
• more than 80% of WW consumer market share
(source: Gartner)
• Java most popular programming language
(source: Tiobe)
• ISV’s gravitate to develop for largest installed base
(source: VisionMobile)
• OSS Leveraging
(e.g. AoSP now used by Nokia in their X platform)

17. 56
EXTRA FEATURES FOR THE
ENTERPRISE USER
Two programmable buttons for
pushbutton access to the two
most used features/applications
1
Microtexture on the
back improve grip 2
1.5x battery provides
extra comfort and grip
with a built in finger rest
3
Flatter sides plus more
area on the sides for a
more secure grip
4
Boot that can be customized
with your corporate color
and your logo
5
1
2
3
4
5
Faster access to features, a better grip and customizable
Todays Rugged Android

18. <TL;DR;/>

19. Easy Deployment
• User is not in charge!
• Devices are tools for a job, needs to be ready out of
the box
• Think about deploying thousand of devices,
already setup, depending on which shop they show
up.
• If you can use it, an MDM can save the day!

20. More Power to the
Devs!
• Configure the device
• Reboot the device
• Time sync
• Device lockdown
• DataCapture
• Battery Management

21. Battery
• Same API provides more info on industrial devices
public
class
BatteryInfo
extends
Activity
{
private
TextView
contentTxt;
private
BroadcastReceiver
mBatInfoReceiver
=
new
BroadcastReceiver(){
@Override
public
void
onReceive(Context
arg0,
Intent
intent)
{
int
level
=
intent.getIntExtra("level",
0);
String
Extras
=
intent.getExtras().toString();
contentTxt.setText(Extras);
}
};
@Override
protected
void
onCreate(Bundle
savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_battery_info);
contentTxt
=
(TextView)
this.findViewById(R.id.BatteryInfo);
this.registerReceiver(this.mBatInfoReceiver,
new
IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED));
}
}

22. Battery
• Same API provides more info on industrial devices

23. Easy Support
• Logging solution behaviour
• Remote Analysis and management
• HotFix deployment

24. CROSSPLATFORM?
Based around web technologies
- RhoMobile (full web app, JavaScript & Ruby)
- PhoneGap (frontend only, JavaScript)
Bringing a different dev.environment to the table:
- Xamarin (C#)
- Titanium (JavaScript)

25. <CACTHA/>

26. Mapping is a comodity
Routing is not!
Example: CoPilot Professional
•Robust, reliable, ‘free-to-use’ GPS routing – effective
in all mapped locations including those with little or
no mobile coverage
•Fast, multi-stop routing optimisation, utilising
Motorola Solutions processor capabilities
•Through SDK customisation, the mobile internet
becomes a method of enabling business compliance –
For example, monioring Current Location, ETAs and
facilitating Job Dispatch
•Validated and compliant with a Motorola Solutions
mobile computers running Android/Windows
Embedded Handheld OS

27. GMS and Google ID
Not always the right solution in an Enterprise:
- Devices could be shared between employee
- Need to work in an intranet environment

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31. <Questions?/>