Introducing Dot™…The World’s Smallest, Most Powerful, Lowest Cost Battery Powered Wireless Computer Ever Implemented
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What was The Era of People Talking has become The Era of Things Talking. The first decade of this century has been characterized as nothing short of a wireless technology revolution. Today more than 80% of Americans own cell phones, which exemplifies the ultimate advancement in what industry calls “mobility.” People now can talk anywhere, anytime.
This era of “people talking” has set the stage for a new era of “things talking.” The introduction of our new technology, Dot™, makes virtually all “things” in business wireless and visible anywhere, anytime. After three years in development, Axcess International Inc, a leader and innovator in enabling wireless solutions for business, has brought Dot to market.
Dinesh Bhatia, PhD.
University of Texas at Dallas —
Dot is a powerful invention that combines so many necessary elements for a micro-wireless technology to be successful.
It has great potential for
multiple uses.”
Dot’s flexibility allows it to take many forms to suit the specific needs of an industry or business. Dot is an enabling technology that will be the heart of many new and innovative products such as a long range bar code; an electronic property tag; an automatic building access badge; a vehicle ID tag; an electronic cargo container seal; a wireless sensor transmitter; and limitless other uses.
With the advent of every “thing” connected, business can move forward with automated, real-time business activity sensing on a broad scale. What results from this pervasive activity sensing? All “things” that generate activity in your business are coordinated and managed dynamically and automatically. Imagine the following being managed automatically:
· the location of your mobile assets and the identification of whom belongs to the assets
· in case of an emergency, knowledge of where your workers are
· knowledge of when and what raw materials were delivered to the warehouse
· knowledge of which vehicles came to and left the yard with what materials
Abhiman Hande, PhD.
University of Texas at Dallas —
Dot, as a technology platform, is well suited to the wireless sensor world. That world requires a distributed, volume deployment of small sensors. Dot is ideally suited to this.”
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Bryan Tracey,
VP Engineering and Chief Architect with GlobeRanger —
Our software platform handles all types of wireless RFID devices. These include EPC standards-based passive tags such as those used in the supply chain and active, or battery-based, tags used virtually everywhere else in industry. Dot is a one-of-a-kind as a hybrid passive and active tagging technology that can be used for multiple applications. That’s very exciting.”
Sense, Identify, and Assess
New forms of business automation are enabled, driving profound business efficiencies never before possible. And it all begins with wireless. Dot gives all things in business the ability to be sensed, identified and assessed automatically.
Dot™ Building Blocks
The building blocks for Dot technology implementation have already been tried and perfected.
· Fleet vehicles are automatically identified and authorized for high-speed access to the gated yard
· Cargo sensors in their payloads automatically sense for condition and security
· The vehicle’s road worthiness is automatically checked for quick turnaround in critical areas such as tire pressure and wheel hub mileage
· Raw materials and supply chain goods are reliably identified and counted in cartons, pallets, crates or containers using powered transmissions able to sense goods regardless of the composition or make-up
· Critical assets in the organization are located instantaneously and accurately, giving a real time inventory of any and all of them available on-demand at the touch of a button
· Test and production equipment is automatically checked in and out and electronically assigned to each worker-custodian
· Work-in-process is automatically identified using industrial quality, sturdy and safe tags for proper and efficient handling throughout the manufacturing process
· Finished goods are tracked and located on-demand in and around the facility using tags with robust signals
· Storage areas are monitored dynamically using wirelessly enabled micro-sensors, their sensed information compared automatically to prevent combustion or a similar catastrophe
· Critical IT assets such as computers are automatically monitored and protected from unauthorized removal
· Critical documents are tracked
· Contract workers and visitors regardless of their mass and speed are properly accounted for using long-range wireless credentials
· Worker safety is constantly monitored via the system’s emergency location determination capabilities, improving emergency evacuation methods and disaster recovery
Sirit has been developing readers in the RFID industry for more than 10 years in both the active and passive markets,” stated Tony Sabetti, Vice President RF Solutions with Sirit Inc. “It is important to Sirit that companies like Axcess continue the evolution of tag design to support the adoption of RFID into new and expanding markets. Dot is an exciting entry into the RFID tag space due to its small form factor, and we are pleased that it worked with our INfinity 510 UHF reader right out of the box.”
The Perfect Technological Storm
Dot is the result of the perfect technological storm, merging a digital processor and software defined transmitter and receiver into a miniscule size that can be produced at a remarkably low cost. We overcame many challenges including developing a number of special engineering techniques for power management used to conserve battery power, which ensured the Dot’s position as the technological leader. Axcess’ “special sauce” makes the Dot one of the world’s smallest, most powerful battery powered wireless computers ever implemented.
Dot™ — A Single Wireless Device
A single wireless device is here, common to multiple industry standards and supporting virtually all industries, including manufacturing, the enterprise, utilities, education, government and the military. Dot from Axcess International Inc. is here and soon to be everywhere, providing a simple, flexible and economic means to wirelessly enable things for automating business, opening up new ways to improve productivity and driving previously unattainable profits.
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