Monthly Archives: May 2010

Rugged Industrial Computers For All Seasons

Rugged industrial computers are designed to provide data collection in all kinds of weather and environments.  When you think of the outdoor seasons and its weather, you’d come up with rain, snow, sleet, heat and bitter cold.  Fixed or vehicle computers are required to take all that punishment.  let’s look into each one; Rain, snow [...]

Wireless Vehicle Computer

A summary on using  a wireless vehicle computer with barcoding.  Data collection is performed in many environments.  Some of these environments require that information be collected while in a mobile location such as car, forklift, truck or just a cart.  Of course some or most of these locations are not so PC friendly and would [...]

Bar Code or Barcode or Barcoding Data Collection

No matter how you spell it, using bar code to collect information is one of the fastest and most accurate technology we can use.  A barcode represents information that is static and usually derived from a data base.  A good example would be the UPC label you see on all your products at a grocery [...]

Wireless Data Collection

Wireless data collection is performed using various enabling technologies.  The components would consist of: a capturing and storing device such as a mobile data terminal, or vehicle mount computer(VMT), or a handheld computer such as a portable data terminal (PDT) Data scanning ability such as a barcode scanner Optionally, a RFID reader that would collect [...]

Data Collection 101

Information is all around us.  It is in the form of sight (pictures), sound (music), and hand written or printed (paper media).  People absorb or interface with information through communications such as television, radio, telephone, books (published media), and now more commonly through the internet.  The process of taking information from its pure form into [...]

Just one Mobile Data Terminal product Now!

After the inaugural release of the Percon Phoenix104  (like rising from the ashes) mobile data terminals, we plan on subsequent release of two new industrial computers with 12.1” and 6.4” displays.   Although it appears that screen sizes are just the changes, we are addressing our ability to manufacture according to requested configuration(s).  The Percon goal [...]

What’s a Forklift Computer Do?

Forklift computers are industrial computers designed and manufactured to withstand the constant shock and pounding of a rough terrain vehicle such as a forklift.  Operations of a forklift in a warehouse or material movement of a manufacturing plant require a vehicle computer device that can operate effectively and last years without continuous repairs. It may [...]