AGIS Software Running on “Over the Counter” Pocket PC/ Cell Phones and can be installed on standard Microsoft Mobile 2003 or 5.0 phones.
AGIS automatically provides each participating Pocket PC/Cell Phone free street maps of any area within the Continental United States. The map locations are centered around Latitude and Longitude specified by the paired GPS when the AGIS software signs on. The AGIS user need only initiate his or her handset software to automatically establish contact with the AGIS Server establishing itself by screen requested name. Upon identity confirmation, your handset commands the AGIS server to notify all other participating members of your group, or persons of common interests, of your location and status. Your symbol is then automatically superimposed on the other group participants’ maps, while their symbols are, in turn, superimposed on yours.
The AGIS system does the rest. As you move, your AGIS software continues to evaluate your relative position in relation to the maps contained in your map cache. Maps that are no longer needed by your handset are discarded while new maps are seamlessly acquired. You don’t have to do a thing. At predetermined intervals, your handset transmits your location and status information to the AGIS Server. The AGIS Server continues to update your location and status with all of the other members of your group and sends you their location and status. In this fashion all members of your group, or persons of common interests, are able to view the near real time location and status data of all others in the group superimposed on the free map. (AGIS also has high resolution maps, satellite and aerial photo imagery, and detailed map overlays available for a fee). AGIS PDA handset software operates on standard Microsoft compatible GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO, and WiFi enabled handsets. To maximize the usability of the small screen size, AGIS uses multi-layered “Function”, and “Action” SoftSwitches™ which are hidden until selected and activated.
AGIS PDA cell phone software provides the user the ability to:
- Zoom in-and-out and grab the display area.
- Call another user by pointing at “Hooking” the other user’s Symbol.
- Create pre-established nets of your AGIS group participants.
- Call other AGIS users within a radius determined by the furthest selected AGIS participant.
- Enter symbols including Meetings, Accidents and Emergencies.
- Select several ways for Symbols to move across the displayed Map and select to view their history trails.
- Display range, bearing, heading, speed, altitude, Phone Signal Strength, and GPS status information, and that of other AGIS units.
- Select to use “Point-To-Talk”™ to talk with other AGIS net participants without losing the map and their location.
- Select to use “Point-To-Communicate”™ and Transmit and Receive Text and Fixed Format Messages.
- Select to use “Point-To-Communicate”™ and Receive Photographs and Video clips.
- Operate using GSM, CDMA, WiFi or a mixed standards environment.
AGIS for PDA handsets operates on Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2003 or 5.0 PDA cell phones. When an AGIS PDA handset is equipped with WiFi, or wireless GSMGPRS/EDGE or CDMA 1X EV-DO Air Card, AGIS may be deployed to any location that is within wireless communications range.
The Five Primary Working Areas of the AGIS Screen
The Map area is the main working space for most of the AGIS functions. This area superimposes your Symbols (unknown, friendly and hostile) on the map. The operator can use the Fixed SoftSwitches to zoom in or out on the map and grab the map to adjust its location.
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The Map display always contains a cursor (a blue ×) that is present when no tracks are hooked. The cursor is moved by the AGIS user’s finger or stylus and provides range and bearing information from the AGIS location to the location of the cursor. If the AGIS operator moves the cursor to the near vicinity of a track, the track will be hooked. Once a track is hooked, a blue circle appears around the track. To unhook a hooked track the operator taps the hooked track again with his stylus or finger.
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A Hooked Track
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AGIS, Inc., has and is testing our software on the following:
- TREO 700W
- Symbology Technologies M70
- HP 6915
- i-mate PDA 2k PDA Cell Phone devices
Because we can only test a limited number of GPS devices, we suggest if you are going to purchase a new PDA Cell phone, that one of the above be your selection as we can only respond to trouble reports for problems that involve this hardware.
Click here for our AGIS Operators Manual.
View a listing of available AGIS Training Videos.
Important Note: To avoid excessive cellphone charges, we recommend that you have unlimited service with your cell phone provider.
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