In France, A2Ch, a subsidiary of the ACCEO group, has been specialising since 2007 in diagnoses and consulting in the accessibility of public places and local authorities to disabled people. Accessibility to disabled people defines the level of access to an actual place or to information. Now, while most accessibility consultancies still work “manually”, this young firm of 30 employees took the gamble, right from the start, of industrialising data collection and processing. To do so, its 30-strong team, working out of 14 branches in France and Spain, is equipped with the Ikôn, a mobile terminal from Psion Teklogix, featuring a software programme developed by Ibizz, to optimise processing of tens of thousands of data. And the gamble quickly paid off since the company can boast double-figure growth over the past two years and has secured a real competitive edge by offering its customers a broader range of services and a veritable accessibility decision aid.

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Thames Valley has become the first Police Force in the country to adopt an RFID asset management system. They use Workabout Pro hand held terminals from Psion Teklogix to track equipment used at investigation scenes. (...)

Mobile computing for ticket inspection: the SNCF (French railway company) is currently innovating on an industrial scale with its Accelio project, involving a business application designed by Unilog Management, a LogicaCMG company, Psion Teklogix’s communicating PDA WORKABOUT PRO and an ultra-light portable printer in Bluetooth mode.

By June 2007, the SNCF’s 10,000 ticket inspectors will all have been trained and will be able to check travellers’ tickets on all lines using 3 systems:

• "contactless” ticketing: this will mainly be season tickets bearing an RFID tag, like the 'orange’ card in Ile-de-France,
• Web-purchased, home-printed tickets, having a special barcode called Aztec,
• conventional main line tickets purchased at the counter or from a ticket machine and having a 2D barcode.

What’s more, the WORKABOUT PRO and its portable printer mean fines can be issued to offenders, tickets can be purchased on board with a bank card, cash or cheque, and travellers can obviously be given all information about connecting trains, timetables and even urban routes in major cities.

 

SNCF inspector: a job on the move

 

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Governments, institutions and businesses are required to adapt increasingly swiftly to new security standards. They seek to make access control procedures more reliable and faster and ID authentication quicker and easier. Within the context of its numerous fields of applied research, Sagem Défense Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) has developed a technology that complies with international recommendations, and which could be of interest to governments and solutions integrators in this sensitive field. Psion Teklogix was directly involved in the initiative through the WORKABOUT PRO, a multimodal terminal fully adapted to perform biometric document authentication in a matter of seconds. In this configuration, the WORKABOUT PRO becomes the MorphoCheck™.

 

 

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Within the vast array of applications of radio frequency technology, PSION TEKLOGIX, a leader in the development of solutions for mobile computing, wireless data collection, and radio frequency identification (RFID), and SOFTWORK, a value-added distributor for active and passive RFID technologies, present the asset management case for the management of telephone equipment as implemented by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (...)