Wheels of Zeus explained

Wheels of Zeus
Type:GPS locator tag
Released:Announced but never released
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Wheels of Zeus (or WoZ) was a company founded in 2002 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] WoZ made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabled objects.

In 2004, Motorola announced that it has licensed Wheel of Zeus' WOZ Platform "to develop new networked consumer-electronics devices".[8]

The licensable technology consisted of three components:[9] [10] [11]

  1. Smart Tag A tag containing GPS that could be attached to various objects, such as a briefcase or pet. "Acceptable areas" could be preprogrammed, such that the tag would signal the Tag Detector when it was moved outside them. The tag communicated over a wireless network named "wOzNet" and used GPS techniques to transmit the tag's position over extreme distances with very little power.
  2. Tag Detector This was a handheld device that could monitor a collection of Smart Tags, and provide a distance and direction to help locate them when they were lost. It also communicated with the wOz Service when a Smart Tag was lost.
  3. WoZ Service An internet-based service that could provide the locations of the various Smart Tags, as well as send an email or SMS notification when a Smart Tag moved outside of its "acceptable area".

In March 2006, Wheels of Zeus shut down operations.[12] Some assets and patents were acquired by ZonTrak.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Ziff Davis, Inc.. PC Mag. 26 March 2002. Ziff Davis, Inc.. 26–. 0888-8507.
  2. Book: IDG Network World Inc. Network World. 28 January 2002. IDG Network World Inc. 5–. 0887-7661.
  3. Book: Stephen Graham. Cities, War, and Terrorism: Towards an Urban Geopolitics. 15 April 2008. John Wiley & Sons. 978-0-470-75302-6. 256–.
  4. Book: Evan I. Schwartz. Juice: The Creative Fuel that Drives Today's World-class Inventors. registration. 2004. Harvard Business School Press. 978-1-59139-288-0. 147–.
  5. Book: Robert A. Baron. Scott Andrew Shane. Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective: A Process Perspective. January 2007. Cengage Learning. 978-0-324-36558-0. 202–.
  6. Book: Harry Henderson. A to Z of Computer Scientists. 1 January 2009. Infobase Publishing. 978-1-4381-0918-3. 278–.
  7. Book: Jack W. Plunkett. Plunkett's Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID and Cellular Industry Almanac 2007 (E-Book): Wireless, Wi-Fi, RFID and Cellular Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies. 1 June 2006. Plunkett Research, Ltd.. 978-1-59392-416-4. 50–.
  8. Web site: Hines. Matt. Motorola licenses Wheels of Zeus for electronics. 2020-09-24. CNET. en.
  9. Book: Katherine J. Strandburg. Daniela Stan Raicu. Privacy and Technologies of Identity: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation. 2006. Springer. 978-0-387-26050-1. 94–.
  10. Book: Michael Sorkin. All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities. 12 February 2013. Verso Books. 978-1-84467-220-2. 118–.
  11. Book: IDG Network World Inc. Network World. 28 July 2003. IDG Network World Inc. 18–. 0887-7661.
  12. News: Wozniak shuts down Wheels of Zeus: Not everything turns out to be Apple . Michael Kanellos . March 16, 2006 . CNet News . October 25, 2013 .
  13. Web site: Hammond. John. 2020-06-16. Alex Fielding: A journey of innovation, unique problem solving, working with the giants of tech…. 2020-09-24. Medium. en.

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