Finding the right solution to address specific challenges is not always easy. Today, the various combinations of hardware, accessories and software can lead to a bewildering number of different solution possibilities. The skill is to find the solution which best fits all your requirements and operating/environmental conditions in hazardous areas.
Choosing and implementing the right solution can enable significant increases in workforce productivity, effectiveness and profitability. Likewise, poor choices can quickly become a stumbling block with serious business consequences.
Together with its long-term development and software partners, ecom offers a proven and comprehensive portfolio of interconnected products and services to help you create the best solution to the challenge, quickly and easily.
The top 10 considerations during your solution journey are listed below.
- Portability and Software Applications: Which screen size is suitable? How compact should the device be to prevent safety incidents?
- Connectivity/ Synchronization: Do users of your solution expect secure and high availability with wide coverage? Is 4G/LTE connectivity required?
- Collaboration capability: Is the focus on pure voice communication, video or to send/receive data?
- Software Compatibility: Which mobile platform does your company use - Android or Windows? Can this perform adequately to meet your future mobile application requirements? Do you expect your software applications to work "out of the box" on both rugged and "EX protected" hardware?
- Robustness, Safety & Reliability: Which Ex-Zones or harsh surroundings? Low/high environmental temperatures?
- Total Cost of Ownership: Purchase costs, quality & dependability, software compatibility, ease of use, service/repair
- Security and Privacy: Protecting your device, data and networks from unauthorized access and cyber attacks?
- Flexible data collection: Barcodes, RFID, Bluetooth beacons
- Hardware requirements: Camera, battery run-time, keyboard or touch screen
- Software Integration: Legal App Store access, easier integration with existing management systems