BarCode ID Systems is an experienced integrator of wireless solutions.

What can wireless do for me?

• Wireless provides freedom of mobility while allowing access to vital information.

• Wireless reduces costs, improves productivity, and allows the very nature of work to change in response to new challenges and opportunities.

• Wireless brings information where it’s needed, when it’s needed, and puts it in the hands of those who can put it to use right away no matter what the task at hand.

High-performance networking enables total business mobility. From any location within your enterprise, using your notebook computer or handheld device, you can wireless get information, connect with colleagues, interact with customer and make informed decisions in real time.

Studies show that organizations that integrate wireless networking inot their systems see increased productivity, better customer retention and lowered operating costs.

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Wireless continues to change the face of business today...

Manufacturing — The need for production efficiencies has never been greater. Instant data collection and dissemination supported by wireless technology—combined with its investment protection and scalability—empowers managers and employees on the production floor, with real-time information at their fingertips.

Transportation/Logistics — Wireless LANs allow improved tracking of materials in motion, and enable end-to-end management of ever-increasing volumes of goods. Wireless solutions allow you to provide secure service capabilities to varied vendors and services throughout logistics operations.

Healthcare — Healthcare professionals are using wireless networking to bring desktop applications to the point of care, enhancing patient care, delivering needed communications to doctors and nurses, simplifying recordkeeping, reducing errors and cutting costs. Wireless devices support voice, data and patient monitoring on the same wireless network—with enhanced security to protect vital, confidential information.

Retail — Wireless networking is one of the most important, transformative technologies in the retail industry. Using wireless technology, retailers can achieve exceptional operating efficiencies and heightened productivity—while also enhancing customer service and satisfaction in the areas of secure wireless point-of-sale systems, self checkout and personalized mobile commerce applications. For these and other innovations and opportunities, wireless devices provide the essential enabling infrastructure.

Government — In countless areas of federal, state and municipal government, from the military to civilian agencies to local public safety organizations, wireless networks and mobility applications are revolutionizing many processes and functions, such as wireless data access and sharing on hospital and other multi-building campuses, and secure, mobile communications in support of homeland defense.

Education — The "unwiring" of college campuses is a major factor in higher education today, allowing students, faculty and administrative staff access to information across the campus... anywhere, anytime. Wireless devices unwire campuses without compromising student records and other secure information, and also enable quick and secure hot-spot networking services for
conferences and other activities.

Finance — For trading floors, insurance claims adjustment and beyond, the convenience of wireless is undeniable. Wireless technology is ideal for all demanding, security intensive real-time operations.

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Working In A Mobile Environment...
In every business, the ability to access and manage information is critical to success. BarCode ID Systems, along with such wireless manufacturers as Symbol Technologies, helps you achieve optimum information and operations management through wireless networking—combining high-performance computing with total business mobility.

Wireless mobility solutions make your company personnel more productive, enable rapid decision-making, and support real-time information sharing to create a competitive advantage. Wireless integration solutions can help you find solutions for such application challenges as:

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The Basics of Wireless — An Overview of Wireless Networks:

There are three types of wireless connectivity currently available—personal area networks (PANs), local area networks (LANs), and wide area networks (WANs). Each is uniquely suited for different application and communication requirements.

Personal Area Networks (PANs)
Personal area networks are based on a global specification called Bluetooth™, which uses radio frequency technology to transmit voice and data. Bluetooth is being developed by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group established in 1998, and includes more than 1,500 member companies. The Group’s intent is to form a de facto standard for the Bluetooth air interface and the controlling software. Over a short range, this cable-replacement technology wirelessly and transparently synchronizes data across devices and creates access to networks and the Internet.

Bluetooth is ideal for mobile professionals who need to link notebook computers, mobile phones, PDAs, PIMs, and other handheld devices to do business at home, on the road, and in the office. Benefits include:

• Convenience of automatic synchronization from device to device.
• Consistent data across devices, regardless of the point-of-data capture.
• Low cost of ownership with fewer cabling and networking appliance needs.
• Ease-of-use, once devices have been assigned and authorized for the PAN.
• Compatible data, devices, and multi-vendor technologies based on the Bluetooth standard.

Local Area Networks (LANs)
A wireless local area network is a flexible data communication system implemented as an extension to, or an alternative for, a wired LAN within a building or campus.

A few of today’s wireless LANs (including Symbol’s) combine voice and data communications over the same backbone for lower costs and more effective and immediate information sharing, as well as high-speed networks for large file transfers and video streaming. Users can roam from cell to cell, capture and send data; access the Internet and the corporate intranet.

LANs are currently the most common form of wireless networking for day-to-day business operations. Benefits include:

• Increased productivity through ongoing data access for any site location.
• Easier network reconfiguration and expansion through wireless installations.
• Lower cost of ownership through reduced cabling, especially in rapidly changing environments.
• Interoperability in multi-vendor environments based on the IEEE 802.11b standard.
• Reliability based on decades of use, starting in World War II.

Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Wide area networks use digital mobile phone systems to access data and information from any location in the range of a cell tower connected to a data-enabled network.

Using the mobile phone as a modem, a mobile computing device such as a notebook computer, PDA, or a device with a stand-alone radio card, can receive and send information from a network, your corporate intranet, or the Internet. It enables communications from a hotel, a conference center, an airport, or even a train. Truckers may use wireless WAN solutions to upload and download data to centralized databases without leaving their vehicles.

Benefits include:

• Greatly improved communications between associates over long distances.
• Easy public access to e-mail, the Internet, and corporate intranets.
• Flexibility to respond to emergencies, security, and public situations.
• Rapid information sharing on critical multi-national projects.
• Lower costs over standard methods of distance communication such as phone, fax and express mail.