Tag Archives: mobile data terminal

Forklift Mounted Computer Tracks the Heavy Loads

Forklifts do the heavy lifting.  Forklift mounted computers track the material and operations performed by the forklift operator including those uncontrolled accidents.  A rugged computer mounted on a forklift can receive or record information from many sources. Shock detector to record collisions RFID readers to capture item ID or/and current locations Bar codes and scanners [...]

Vehicle Mounted Computer in Public Safety Sector (Police, EMS, Fire Dept)

Imagine a police car or a firetruck without a vehicle mounted computer!  How effective would a policeman or a fireman be without the information required for they day to day operation?  Inquiries about a license tag, location of an incident, and filing various on the road all require a mobile data terminal terminal within their [...]

RFID Data Collection with Industrial Mobile Data Terminal

RFID data collection in expansive storage areas mandates mobility and industrial mobile data terminals with RFID readers. Imagine the acreages of stored containers in a shipyard.  How does the shipyard manager maintain accountability of all receipts and shipments?  Barcodes are sometimes used but are fairly ineffective in reading at such long distance and require large [...]

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 [...]

Which Industries do Percon Products Fit?

Which industries does Percon plan to concentrate in? Where does our vehicle mount computer product(s) fit? Our initial target and plan is ‘stick” with what we know best; supply chain logistics in manufacturing and wholesale trade. We are also planning on penetrating transportation, oil production,  and public safety. In reality, the need of our partners [...]

Why build another Vehicle Mount Computer?

Why build another vehicle mount computer (VMT)? Motorola, LXE, Psion, AML are already a big player. You’ll have too much competition! That’s a good question that most of our prospects, integrators and resellers are asking us. The answer is two-fold: Today’s big players do provide vehicle mounted computers but they are a “step-child” to their [...]