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Likewise Mahoney makes the point that retailers are aware of their responsibilities when it comes to power consumption; especially when the consumption occurs outside of trading hours. “For years it has been ‘accepted’ that devices need to be left on overnight due to polling require - ments, system upgrades and even to avoid hardware failures caused when devices are powered off,” said Mahoney. “Upcoming legislation will result in taxes being levied on retailers based on their power consumption levels. This legislation, coupled with a genuine desire to be seen as being environmentally aware, are driving factors in retailers’ desire to control their power usage.”
Sympathetic to business demands
With this in mind Sanderson has worked with many of its customers to define overnight schedules that maximise the opportunity to power-down devices. At pre-determined times, or even after an identified action, a device will be powered
manage their power consumption, it also does it in a manner that is sympathetic to their business demands.”
The PCI eSecure solution is presently deployed to more than 4000 seats in the retail sector for a number of well-known high street retailers. Mahoney explained that the driving factor was to meet PCI requirements in a cost-effective and practical manner. The power management solution is newer but will be installed into a similar base within the next three to four months. “The main driving factor was to reduce power consumption along with associated costs and to promote the retailer’s aware - ness of the environment,” said Mahoney. Both solutions can be deployed on tills, back office servers and central devices.
The distributor of the eSecure solution is Evolution, although the final solution incorporates services provided directly by Sanderson RBS. “We had no hesitation in recommending the solution, as the software meets all known requirements
Martin Cameron: “All these projects – fruit picker, chicken breeder and hospital – involved mobile terminals, all involved tracking a product and all resulted in cost savings and error reduction.”
TSC Barcode Solutions – fruit, poultry and hospitals
The PCI eSecure solution is presently deployed to more than 4000 seats in the retail sector for a number of well-known high street retailers.
down and remain in a state of hibernation using either a hardware or software solution. “In this state the device will use a minimal amount of power, yet be aware of its environment and will react to a network based instruction to wake up and perform an action,” said Mahoney. “This solution not only allows retailers to
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whilst Evolution operates under a similar ethos to Sanderson RBS,” Mahoney remarked. “Evolution are involved in pre-sales activities and have attended and hosted several user forums to keep our customer base and prospects updated on the solution as it moved from concept to deliverable.”
Some of the opportunities that TSC Barcode Solutions has enjoyed this year have involved working with a fruit picker to develop a job tracking application, a chicken breeder to develop an application for tracking eggs and a hospital to provide an IT stock tracking system. “All these projects involved mobile terminals, all involved tracking a product and all resulted in cost savings and error reduction,” explained TSC Barcode Solutions’ Martin Cameron. The fruit picker had used mobile terminals before but wanted to take the application further and increase its uptake of TSC Barcode Solutions’ technology. “The solution had to be bespoke and involved up to 30 supervisors with terminals recording who was picking, how long they were picking for, what they had picked, the quality of the pick, the time taken etc.,” said Cameron. “The system will help them to understand their costs, the efficiency of their workforce, the quality of their end product and much more. It will help them be more efficient and reduce their costs. They can therefore improve their offering to their customers.” >>
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