Starting A Biz with WiFi
Davao City’s been dubbed as the WiFi City of the country because of its wide offerings of free wifi hotspots in the whole city. A lot of business and public establishments in the city have installed their own WiFi equipments for them to drive potential customers.
I’ve witnessed how Davao’s restaurant and coffee shop industry shifted its way from a for-the-rich image to a for-the-mass image. Nowadays, people from the middle class who owns wifi devices can utilize the free internet access offered by restos and coffee shops.
Thus, when opening a business, it is highly recommended that you incorporate the WiFi service to drive customers to your establishment. WiFi routers are now sold in the country at a very cost-effective price.
Of course, like any business establishment, you should also have a point of sale system for monitoring your sales. Since you are connected online, it is good to utilize web-based pos system to save on equipments and software costs.
Hosting a WiFi Access Point without a Wireless Router
I was doing my laboratory when one of my teachers approached me and told me if I have seen the new Wireless Network Access Point in our laboratory. To my excitement, I immediately reached for my laptop bag and grabbed my laptop. I didn’t even bother to place my laptop on top of the lab equipment even if the teacher was watching me cram.
When I opened my laptop and scanned for the available wireless network APs, I saw a new one on the list. Its network SSID is AdduNet. My teacher told me that it was him who installed the new AP. I asked if it’s a router that he used for that AP. He said no, it was his laptop which hosts the network AP.
Unknown to me, some PCMCIA Wireless Adapters have the capacity to host a wireless network. I think I still need to research on the proper procedure for internet sharing via a self-hosted AP using an ordinary laptop.
Office Ergonomics
We have a subject called safety engineering. In this subject we talk about different kinds of safety practices in the work place. The easiest to identify is the real dangerous ones, like wearing hard hats in certain areas, or keeping your limbs far from moving machines.
One favorite topic of our teacher is ergonomics. She seems to be fixated on this. This is probably because most of the work now occurs in an office, sitting in a chair, looking at a computer screen, typing on a keyboard placed on a table. There are only a few instances where hard, manual labor is being done. So our teacher decided to focus on office ergonomics. This branch of safety engineering is focused mostly on the comfort and ease of doing a job and not only on the actual safeness of an object.
Things like repetitive strain injury from typing on a keyboard, or back strain from a poorly designed chair, and others like this. It’s more on the small aches and eventual permanent discomforts of office work that ergonomics focuses on.