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What does mobile phone technology have to do with catching mice and rats?
A company called Wyless has added a 21st century twist to the venerable mousetrap by installing a chip in the trap. The chip, connected to a mobile phone network, alerts the exterminator company when a rodent has been caught, so the dead creature can be collected and disposed of.
The wireless pied piper, as it's known, is just one of the ideas devised by Wyless, a company founded by an entrepreneur Karl Ahmed two years ago. Wyless provides the technology for machines to talk to other machines.
In another example of what it does, Wyless allows a vending machine to send an alert when it needs filling. Mr Ahmed predicts that Wyless sales will top £10m by the end of next year.
Full story:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/business...ne_sector.html
A company called Wyless has added a 21st century twist to the venerable mousetrap by installing a chip in the trap. The chip, connected to a mobile phone network, alerts the exterminator company when a rodent has been caught, so the dead creature can be collected and disposed of.
The wireless pied piper, as it's known, is just one of the ideas devised by Wyless, a company founded by an entrepreneur Karl Ahmed two years ago. Wyless provides the technology for machines to talk to other machines.
In another example of what it does, Wyless allows a vending machine to send an alert when it needs filling. Mr Ahmed predicts that Wyless sales will top £10m by the end of next year.
Full story:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/business...ne_sector.html
