Hospitality:

Hospitality establishments check customers in and out and keep track of needs, such as room service orders and laundry requests. Restaurants need to keep track of the names and numbers of people waiting for entry, table status, and drink and food orders. Restaurant staff must perform these activities quickly and accurately to avoid making patrons unhappy. Wireless networking satisfies these needs very well.

Retail:

Retail organizations need to order, price, sell, and keep inventories of merchandise. A wireless network in a retail environment enables clerks and storeroom personnel to perform their functions directly from the sales floor. Salespeople are equipped with a pen-based computer or a small computing device with bar code reading and printing capability, with the wireless link to the store’s database. They are then able to complete transactions, such as pricing, bin labeling, placing special orders, and taking inventory from anywhere within the store.

Warehouses:

Warehouse staff must manage the receiving, putting away, inventory, and picking and shipping of goods. These responsibilities require the staff to be mobile. Warehouse operations have traditionally been a paper-intensive and time-consuming environment. An organization, however, can eliminate paper, reduce errors, and decrease the time necessary to move items in and out by giving each warehouse employee a handheld computing device with a bar code scanner interfaced via a wireless network to a warehouse inventory system.