Mar 15, 2018The following are news announcements made during the past week by the following organizations:
TrackX Holdings, DENSO Products and Services Americas;
Corvus Integration, Identiv;
Quuppa, Nesa Solutions;
Seldat Technology Services;
Unified Office; and
Accruent.
TrackX, DENSO Partner on Solutions for Automotive, General Manufacturing
TrackX Holdings, an enterprise Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) software platform provider, and DENSO Products and Services Americas, an affiliate of DENSO Corp., a supplier of automotive technology, systems and components, have partnered to provide asset-tracking and -management solutions to the automotive industry. The two companies will collaborate and deploy solutions utilizing the TrackX GAME (Global Asset Management for Enterprises) platform and DENSO's automotive component and industry expertise.
"Our partnership with TrackX enables us to offer RFID Asset Tracking services to our customers and enter the IIoT space with GAME software running on our DENSO RFID Handheld," said David Keller, the business manager of DENSO Products and Services Americas, in a prepared statement. "Customers simply tag the assets they would like to track, and then with the handheld, they are able to instantly conduct audits and locate their assets anywhere in the world in real time."
DENSO provides productivity improvements to factories, shops and offices in support of customer innovation through automatic data capture, industrial robots and industrial controllers for manufacturers. The partnership, according to the companies, will advance the deployments of DENSO handheld devices with TrackX software capabilities to current and future customers, in order to help increase productivity and efficiencies through advanced workflows, automatic detection and asset audits.
"We've demonstrated that we understand the needs of the automotive industry by winning and expanding GAME through one of America's largest used-car dealers," said Tim Harvie, TrackX's President and CEO, in the prepared statement. "Our partnership with DENSO, an automotive parts supplier, leverages TrackX's established experience in this important sector. DENSO's RFID Handheld is a natural fit for GAME, and we believe that it will increase TrackX's value proposition as we continue to penetrate the automotive market."
Corvus Integration Selects Identiv Smart-Card Reader Board for Multi-Biometric Border-Patrol Solution
Identiv has announced that it is partnering with Corvus Integration, a provider of biometric, identity-management and security solutions. In this partnership, Corvus will integrate Identiv's 4501 contact and contactless smart-card reader board into its recently launched Corvus Tetrad biometric solution, used for border patrol to enhance security through a combination of biometrics and smart cards. The Identiv smart-card reader supports the latest security standards, including contact ISO/IEC 7816, contactless ISO/IEC 14443 and Near Field Communication (NFC).
The Corvus Tetrad solution—a modified version of the Corvus Sleeve biometric solution—utilizes the newly integrated biometrics appendix F-certified "Five-O" four-slap fingerprint scanner. Combining an integrated biometric fingerprint scanner with Corvus' dual iris collect and 5mp face camera, the Tetrad solution integrates the 4501 contact and contactless smart-card reader and a Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) reader. Tetrad is designed to withstand challenging environments, featuring a rugged case and utilizing an 8-inch tablet running in Microsoft Windows 10 Professional with 4G of RAM, a 64GB SSD and external ports. The solution comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, as well as optional 3G and 4G support.
"We are committed to delivering the most secure, innovative solutions to help protect our borders," said Jeff Kormanec, Corvus Integration's CEO, in a prepared statement. "Partnering with U.S.-based Identiv allows us to bring one of the most secure—and powerful—portable biometric devices to market utilizing the latest smart card technology. We look forward to extending our partnership with Identiv and bringing more handheld biometric innovations to market to reliably identify users and better secure our borders."
The secure 4501 uTrust 4501 F Dual Interface Smart Card Reader Board provides optimized transaction times, supporting 84 kBit/second in ISO/IEC 14443 and 600 kBit/second in ISO/IEC 7816m, to quickly identify smart-card users via the Tetrad solution. Additionally, the board provides full NFC capability, complete with network log-on and secure Web-based transactions, to ensure secure access network. The solution is interoperable, making it a suitable 13.56 MHz contactless and contact reader board for application integration, and to support next-generation applications.
"Identiv is a technology innovator and provider of smart card interface solutions supporting the latest industry standards," said Manfred Mueller, Identiv's chief operating officer and general manager of smart-card readers and transponders, in the prepared statement. "By partnering with OEMs, such as Corvus, we can integrate support for contact and contactless smart cards for various use cases such as patrolling our borders. We look forward to extending our partnership with Corvus."
Quuppa, Nesa Solutions Team Up on Location-based Workflows for Health Care
Quuppa, a provider of indoor positioning technology, has announced that its partner Nesa Solutions has launched its INSIGHT Location Intelligence system. Quuppa provides an open, low-cost and scalable platform for partners that require accurate, real-time positioning. INSIGHT Location Intelligence is a robust, end-to-end software solution that helps health-care systems and other enterprises effectively manage personnel, patients and assets in their environment. INSIGHT utilizes Quuppa's positioning technology to locate individual and assets down to a few centimeters, and uses that data to create business rules surrounding their movements.
The first announced deployment of the INSIGHT solution is with Nicklaus Children's Health System, in Miami, Fla.—a 2.5 million-square-foot facility that demonstrates the enterprise-grade quality that Nesa Solutions brings to health care and other industries, as well as the scalability of the Quuppa platform.
"With the addition of the INSIGHT services platform into our environment, we will be able to accurately track and manage many of the inefficiencies present in healthcare today," said Ed Martinez, Nicklaus Children's Health System's CIO and senior VP, in a prepared statement. "From hand washing compliance to patient and provider tracking to quality care management and more, we believe our investment in this new technology is the next generation in healthcare compliance, management and outcomes improvement."
One example of INSIGHT in action involves hospital hygiene, a highly regulated area of day-to-day hospital operations. Using the INSIGHT system with Quuppa's location information as a key component, hospitals can establish a business rule to track the path of doctors and nurses to ensure compliance based on their path and stopping point at the sink or sanitizer dispenser. Among other use cases is the tracking of mobile equipment such as crash carts, wheelchairs, IV stands and other valuable assets.
"Everything in a hospital is based on motion, from the time a patient walks into the door to discharge," said Neil Salem, Nesa Solutions' CEO and founder, in the prepared statement. "Because we know where everything is we have the ability to impact not only business processes, but the quality of patient care by making it a more personal experience. Hand hygiene, patient security, asset tracking, crash cart readiness—all of these are separate workflows that we've brought together in INSIGHT and enabled all sorts of innovative capabilities because we have the most accurate dot on the map with the Quuppa technology."
"Quuppa's highly accurate location technology allows companies like Nesa Solutions to execute workflows that no one in the industry has been able to do before," added Fabio Belloni, Quappa's general manager and co-founder, in the prepared statement. "They have been a valuable partner in bringing to life solutions for healthcare and other industries enabled by the most advanced indoor positioning technology."
Seldat Technology Services Intros RFID Automation System for 3PL Warehouse Management
Seldat Technology Services (STS), a division of Seldat Distribution, has introduced an RFID solution designed for 3PL warehouse management. STS's RFID technologies are used globally in warehouses that handle food and beverages, automotive components and consumer packaged goods.
STS analyzed the traditional problems associated with introducing RFID automation to 3PL warehouses. Challenges included incompatible hardware and software within existing operations, operational issues across all RFID products from different vendors, and interference from other tracking systems. Warehouse assets often required intensive modifications to physically and digitally accommodate RFID technologies.
Solutions based on Seldat's own 3PL operations include RFID readers, scanners, gateways and other equipment developed by STS; middleware pre-configured and fully integrated with WMS360, STS's warehouse-management system; hardware built for complex, high-volume 3PL processes and environments; and hardware tools that can be retrofitted to existing equipment, such as forklifts, conveyor belts and racking systems.
Seldat's RFID solution offer automated data capture and analysis in real time, visibility and traceability within and beyond the warehouse, real-time location and inventory management, strategic planning with advanced business intelligence, reduced implementation times with fewer challenges, and 45 to 55 percent cost savings compared to related RFID implementation options in the market.
"As a global leader in technology-driven supply chain solutions," said Chacko Verghese, the company's senior VP and global chief technology officer, in a prepared statement, "we're proud to introduce an RFID solution that promotes complete visibility, traceability, and significant cost savings for Third Party Logistics providers worldwide."
Unified Office Combines Business Communications, IoT Services in Single Management Portal
Unified Office, a managed services provider offering hybrid cloud-based virtual communications services, Internet of Things (IoT) and business analytics, has announced its new Total Connect Now Operations Management Suite (TCNOMS) customer portal that unites all Total Connect Now services from high-quality voice-over-IP and unified communications to advanced business analytics and the IoT. With this new offering, the company reports, customers can manage and view every aspect of their business communications and IoT services in a single place.
"Businesses rely heavily on voice communications. We wanted to give them the ability to manage all of their Unified Office services from one easy to use software platform," said Ray Pasquale, Unified Office's CEO and founder, in a prepared statement. "As a result, we built a simple to use fully integrated portal for them. They can now manage their whole business from their TCNOMS portal. With TCNOMS they can configure their services, set thresholds, and view alarms and alerts across our entire product portfolio from any device."
TCNOMS provides analytics for all of a customer's services and an interface to add, change and configure services. Customers can view all indicators across all of their stores or offices, down to a single store or office location, from any device and anywhere they happen to be, and manage their businesses remotely.
"Our customers are amazed when they see how easy it is to manage and configure their services," Pasquale added in the prepared statement. "From this fully integrated portal they can get all the detail they need to manage their businesses from being able to generate reports to viewing analytics in real-time."
Total Connect Now is a managed communications service that integrates voice and video communications, messaging, service-level monitoring, business continuity and business-analytics tools for SMB or franchise owners to better manage their store operations. Unified Office provides an at-a-glance view of customer service responsiveness in real time, as well as on-demand and scheduled reporting for any store, or a combination of stores, accessible remotely via the Visual Performance Suite's Web-enabled Manager's Portal.
Unified Office's Highest Quality Routing Protocol (HQRP) transmission network provides VoIP/UC services without the need for costly dedicated T1 access lines or MPLS tunnels. The firm's cloud is elastic and engineered to scale as needed to meet the demands of large companies.
Accruent Announces Meridian Enhancements, Including Cloud-Based ALIM Solution
Accruent, a provider of physical resource management solutions, has announced enhancements to Meridian, its asset lifecycle information management (ALIM) software used by more than 1,200 companies. These new products mark the first upgrades to Meridian since it was added to Accruent's portfolio through the BlueCielo acquisition in November 2017.
These enhancements include new cloud and analytics products, a mobile interface and updates across existing Meridian client and server applications. The updated product line is intended to provide organizations in asset-intensive and highly regulated industries with real-time accessibility to their mission-critical asset information.
"As we've moved from working with 1,200 BlueCielo customers into Accruent's world of over 7,000 global customers, there's a growing demand for the maximum reliability and global availability of a cloud-based solution for managing engineering information throughout the asset lifecycle," said Willem-Jan Scholten, Accruent's senior VP of international sales, in a prepared statement. "The Meridian development team and our beta customers are delighted by the way Accruent's scale and expertise have helped accelerate the timing and expanded the scope of these enhancements."
Meridian Cloud is a secure cloud service for engineering information management, built on Microsoft Azure, which ensures that users are informed, aligned, compliant and in control throughout asset lifecycles. Offered through a subscription-based model, Meridian Cloud reduces startup costs, simplifies procurement and operational budgeting, and enables costs to stay in line with changing requirements and actual software usage.
Meridian Analytics is a new service for providing insights into engineering data captured within the Meridian platform. Its quality analytics provide visibility into the metadata on documents and information managed within Meridian. This service enables customers to analyze and understand their data quality and integrity, and to plan for improvement.
In addition, Meridian Server, the company's on-premises platform, has been upgraded to provide new capabilities, including support for advanced information types, workflow auditing, performance enhancements for very large datasets and enterprise asset management (EAM) integrations.
