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The French Leader In Billposting Uses Ikôn To Renew Its PDA Population
“This renewal aims to keep existing functionalities, but also and above all to develop new services for our customers, particularly by taking pictures of the tasks done using the new snapshot functionality. We also want to communicate faster with our field force thanks to wireless synchronisation, and to secure productivity gains thanks to enhanced mobile applications."
Christophe Gomez, New Technology and Development Manager at Insert
Challenge:
- Insert, the French leader in billposting for pedestrians for 30 years, that manages advertising for 35,500 retail outlets in France required a robust, feature rich PDA for its Field Team carrying out customised advertising field services in city centres
- The selected PDAs needed to meet all the criteria defined by Insert as sensitive for their business: scan speed, sturdiness, picture quality, ergonomics, battery life, OS stability and data-rate quality for synchronisation
Solution:
- Insert replaced its PDA fleet with 436 Ikôn PDA from Psion
Benefits:
- Communication is faster in the field force thanks to wireless synchronisation
- Secure productivity gains thanks to enhanced mobile applications:
- WiFi connectivity allows for optimized and more reliable communications between Head Office and the field
- Imager with barcode reader function enables identification of each advertising medium (functionality already available with the previous PDA)
- GPS functionality allows for total geocoding of all media
- 2 mega-pixel digital colour camera: to prove efficient service provision, namely for special field service operations
