Mobile Computing Services

Mobile Computing Services and Applications continues the series of high-quality, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies.

Recent years have witnessed an enormous growth in the development and applications of mobile computing environments and devices. Endeavour envision a future empowered with context and location aware computation and communication infrastructure that allow users to access data and receive service at any place and any time. Compared to conventional platforms, the mobility of computing nodes introduces many challenges to the design of almost all systems components.

At Endeavour Mobility services are classified into three groups.

1) Common Mobility Services (CMS): Services designed to overcome common restrictions of mobile computing, which arise mainly from the slowness, insecurity and instability of wireless or analogous connection lines utilized by the mobile user. These services are called common mobility services (CMS). Examples are connection management, caching or encryption services.

2) Mobility management Services(MMS): Services handles the management and administration of mobile users moving around and connecting their portables to networks at different places. These mobility management services (MMS) include tasks such as the authentication of users, accounting and billing issues or profiling of the users' habits.

3) Special Mobility Services(SMS): The tasks necessary to adapt certain existing applications to mobile usage are implemented by high-level services, which are called special mobility services (SMS).Special mobility services adapt existing services to the mobile conditions. For example to allow remote database access over a wireless connection line one has to take special care of possible frequent connection losses especially in the context of the state of the database. Viewing services as distinct building blocks, we are able to sketch architecture for a "mobility services enhanced system".

Endeavour provides a complete multi-platform solution for mobile-enabling the enterprise data. These mobile computing platforms include Palm OS, Windows CE, Epoc32 from Symbian and WAP. These mobile-enabling applications can be further extended with custom abilities as per the needs of the client's enterprise.

The technologies and tools being used for development of applications are supported by the Componentised functional modules in the form of libraries which greatly speed up the development process and thus achieve reduced time to market delivery of these systems. The reliability of these components reduces the testing and maintenance and thus allows competitive pricing for mobile-enabled system development.

Mobile Application Development Environment:
PalmOS, WindowsCE (Pocket PC 2000 - 2003, WinCE.Net, PocketPC Phone Edition, MS Smartphone), Symbian OS, Brew OS, Blackberry RIM OS, as well as a large number of modern technologies: COM/COM+/DCOM, J2ME, including Bluetooth-, Wi-Fi- and IrDA-connections, etc.

Development Departments:
Palm OS, WinCE OS, Symbian OS, Rim Blackberry OS and Mobile Development Departments. Endeavour also undertake projects requiring existing platform modification, driver and microcontroller development, etc.

Areas of expertise:
Security, Rich Messaging, Embedded, Business and Banking, Testing, Games and Gambling, Medicine, Multimedia, Web, GPRS, Mail, Utilities. Efficient interaction between PDA and mobile departments has allowed us to build high-quality standards for porting system.