InBuilding Wireless is about to get interesting

For many years, the company I work for has run the InBuilding Wireless Solutions conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For many years, that forum has very rightfully taken a solid place as the leading platform for business discussions about cutting edge solutions for cellular use inside of large buildings, malls, airports, hospitals and hotels.

I’ve been creating the May 2009 agenda, which will be discussed over four days at The Venetian in Las Vegas. For some reason, I feel very lucky to be working on this program. Something has happened in the past three or four years. Wireless has started to mean something to people.

I am looking over notes I have taken during market research and I’ve noticed several trends:

1. Wireless solutions, or the thought of putting in wireless solutions in buildings, promotes anxiety in building owners. The reason: cost.

2. There is a multitude of wireless solutions and software programs that work on wireless DAS and other devices that hotels, multi-tenant office buildings, malls, airports, and even tunnels have to consider to make living, shopping, vacationing, doing business and even sending text messages easier for the average Joe.

3. There are an extraordinary number of business owners who want to know the future of wireless phone – voice and data — tech, so they know how they can run their business efficiently and in a streamlined way.

We really sit on the leading edge of how business works. There are other things I have not mentioned, which will make the business of wireless profound for all sorts of industries, including:

Telemetry and finding people in buildings
Public safety regulations that require large buildings to have a wireless safety system in place to make rescue, fire fighting and responding to terrorist attacks easier to manage
Managing heat and air conditioning so that we don’t die from global warming and high heating and air bills
Data, data, data
Marketing to tenants

There seems a whole world of ideas that are flying around this market. When I finally put the agenda together for IBWS, it will be something that allows property developers, carriers from around the world, and the leading minds in technological innovation to create the ideal wireless solution-led economy.

Douglas Crets is Director of InBuilding Wireless Solutions, in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 12-15, 2009. He lives in New York.