Completely new applications allow wireless LAN systems in industrial environments to transmit data to mobile objects. In logistics, for example, this means that fork-lift trucks can stay continuously connected to the company network via the wireless LAN. In combination with mobile barcode scanners, inventory movements within a warehouse can be monitored in real time and passed on to an ERP system, which then provides all employees with up-to-the-minute information on current inventories at all times.