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    • The Wireless Image Transmission (WITI) Initiative

    I3A Wireless Image Transmission Initiative (WITI) aims to maximize interoperability between a broad array of future wireless, image enabled products that are seamlessly linked to make digital and mobile imaging solutions ubiquitous and easy to use for consumers. Underlying this infrastructure must be a a solid, reliable technology capable of supporting wireless transmission of high-quality images. WITI is committed to achieving this goal, whether it means new technology must be invented or existing technology simply identified and evaluated.

    The vision of WITI is one of a world in which a broad array of wireless, image-capable products are linked via current and future wireless communication technologies to make digital imaging solutions easier to use and more pervasive than ever among consumers. The key characteristics of this wireless world are:

    • Seamless interoperability across multiple, open communication technologies
    • Dramatically improved ease of use over prior wired solutions
    • New wireless-enabled solutions that could never exist in the wired world
    • Quality and usefulness of images uncompromised by the infrastructure
    • Customers need little knowledge and no awareness of the complexity of the technology in their pocket
    • Security that consumers have confidence in
    • Sufficient speed for solutions to be attractive and to become pervasive
    • Ever-increasing speed and capability that link to the installed base.

    The Road to Wireless Imaging, a white paper resulting from the efforts of the WITI group, represents an important first step in the evolution of the mobile imaging market as we know it today. The white paper discusses the complex technology intersections of wireless imaging in two major sections:

    1) The Wide Area Network

    • Infrastructure and its issues for imaging, including bandwidth, latency, error correction, etc.
    • Wireless hand-held device issues including power, displays, OS, protocols, compression, etc. and their imaging opportunities

    2) Personal and Local Area Network technologies and concerns for imaging, including Bluetooth, IR and other standards

    For further information, download the WITI White Paper