In production or in retail – goods flows have become increasingly mobile in recent years. This trend will continue and grow, and incorporate new branches of industry and new areas of application.

Just like goods flows, information flows have also become mobile. Data needs to be available at all times and from any location, be consistent, plausible and have the facility to be updated. The time span from the capture of data locally to its further processing in the central computer has become process-critical – a development that is redefining the importance of time.

Portable computers, hand-helds or PDAs are the mobile data capture tools that connect goods and information. Integrated into radio networks, mobile computing creates transparency in real time and enables processes to be optimised online:

IDtek Identifikationslösungen GmbH is the partner for the project management and implementation of efficient mobile computing solutions to companies such as BMW, AUDI, BP, Rießner-Gase or Deutsche Bahn.

Mobile data capture:

• • Location-neutral
• • Integrated process data
• • Increased efficiency

Mobile computing technology depends on its acceptance by the user. What’s essential for this is the environmentally and functionally appropriate design of the equipment. Specific operational requirements require individual solutions, particularly in the case of RFID solutions, that are subject to their own sets of rules, especially in metallic environments – as is the case with almost all industrial needs.

Often, the entire portfolio of state-of-the-art equipment and technologies need to be taken into account; the possible reading distances for an ATEX environment, for instance, particular robustness to cold, humidity or vibrations, the readability of the display in changing light conditions, keyboard operation with gloves, power supply options, automation vs. costs, manual handling or assembly on e.g. a forklift truck, integrated or separate RFID reader or barcode scanner, RFID gates, stationary RFID readers with multiple antennas, wireless LAN communication, etc.

Harness the application experience of the IDtek team that spans 15 years and over 150 successfully implemented RFID-assisted mobile data capture implementations worldwide.