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25 HIRE AND RENTAL NEWS • APRIL/MAY 2015
INDUSTRY in FOCUS
CEO of Point-of-Rental Software,Wayne
Harris said: “Adding these best-in-market
RFID capabilities to our software gives
our customers the ability to reduce labor
and asset costs, and increase customer
satisfaction.”
The Internet of Things is a growing
conversation in the rental industry, as more
and more equipment is dispatched with
embedded devices, telemetry and GPS,
this technology will become more essential
and less of a nice-to-have.
“A number of technology trends have
started to affect the rental industry,”Wayne
Harris said.
“These changes have come through the
use of rental mobile apps on smart phones,
tablets and the expectation of connecting
to your business 24/7.”
Wayne said linen and party markets are a
great first test of RFID and that tool and
equipment markets can also have big
benefits with these new RFID capabilities.
Trends in the tool rental industry may
be less concerned with tracking assets
in the field and more concerned with
easy dispatch using RFID and capturing
customer signatures for deliveries and
pickups.
Jason Albus, Director of Application
Development for Integrations and
Internal Software at Point-of-Rental, also
emphasised the critical importance of
these technology trends in the rental
industry.
He said: “Across the board, Point-of-Rental
recognises the potential of mobile apps
(including our Mobile Workforce app) for
real-time processing. This pushes business
systems further into the yard and field with
less reliance on paper and eliminates the
errors inherent with re-keying information.”
Positek RFID was formed in 2001 to
provide process improvement solutions
based on RFID. The company has been
a technology vendor in the textile
maintenance industry since 1973, serving
thousands of rental customers in uniform,
linen, party, medical, tuxedo, dry cleaning,
hospitality and more.
“We are excited to partner with Point-
of-Rental to open new markets to the
exclusive capabilities of RFID in the rental
industry,” Jeff Markman, President of
Positek RFID said.
Positek RFID’s UHF and unique reading
and software solutions provide the ability
to read large quantities of tagged items,
even hundreds of pieces of laundry
instantaneously.
“In addition, the new interface between
our companies’ software products gives
rental companies a seamless and complete
RFID solution.”
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