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Spotlight for Android
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What is Spotlight for Android? |
Spotlight for Android is a set of apps and services deployed on Android based phones and tablets, which connect to Spotlight Server thus enabling cross-platform mission-critical asset tracking applications.
When is it available?
A Beta of Spotlight for Android is available on the Google Nexus S today. Future plans for Nexus Prime on Android Ice-Cream Sandwich are underway.
What applications can I use on Spotlight for Android today?
Spotlight for Android will support the same set of horizontal Auto-ID applications supported on Spotlight Mobile – these include Commission, De-commission, Trace, Audit RFID tags.
Spotlight for Android will also fully support the set of Transfusion Medicine RFID apps as part of the S3Edge Healthcare Industry Solution;these include Create, Pack, Load, Ship, Audi, Trace, Delete, Return, Import, and Check-in.
Can Spotlight for Android be used for other RFID-based asset tracking applications across verticals?
Yes – the underlying architecture of the Spotlight Mobile platform lends itself to customization across various vertical asset tracking scenarios and requirements. Both the applications themselves and the UI look and feel can be customized and deployed in a declarative manner based on your business-specific process flows and error handling needs.
What Auto-ID technologies will Spotlight for Android work with?
Current Android platform support is centered on “NFC” (Near-field communication) technology that includes HF (High-Frequency) RFID capabilities. Barcodes and QR codes are supported as data-input to Spotlight for Android mobile apps as well.
Will other types of RFID / Auto-ID devices continue to be supported on Spotlight? And will they work in concert with or Plug and Play with the new device?
Spotlight from the ground up has been designed to support and manage a wide range of RFID and Auto-ID technologies across various form-factors (handheld, fixed, pad, tunnel readers, etc.). In following the rich tradition of heterogeneous Auto-ID device support in the base Spotlight product from S3Edge, The Nexus S from Google will be the 36th such device to be supported – and this list will only continue to grow in the future. All of these devices (from HF, to UHF, Barcode, Active, UWB, and sensor devices) will all continue to work in concert with and can Plug n Play with each other as data sources for applications deployed (and managed) on the S3Edge Spotlight server and mobile platforms.
Can apps built on Spotlight for Android be used on Android-based tablets as well?
Yes – the deployment model of the underlying Spotlight platform allows for apps to be deployed on phones or tablets, seamlessly.
Will Spotlight for Android be cloud-enabled from the get-go and what are the various modes that applications can run in?
The Spotlight architecture supports a cloud-based deployment architecture that simplifies data collection at local sites and allows for and significantly simpler data-exchange and integration pattern with subscribing line-of business applications as well as applications on tablets.
Apps can be used in Paddle mode to read and post tags to subscribing apps, or can be used to execute stand-alone business processes on the phone (such as Pack, Ship, Audit etc.) that can then be be sent to various back-end applications or synced offline as needed.
The following pictorial depicts this deployment architecture:
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What is the overall impact of Spotlight for Android on the RFID industry as a whole?
There are lots of reasons why this development is a game-changer for customers looking to deploy RFID-based applications; in addition to the fact that a Smartphone is now a ubiquitous device that’s carried on person by a working professional., some of the more significant reasons for why the Spotlight for Android platform is a revolutionary reader platform for deploying RFID-based apps is as follows:
- Reader platform is more than twice as fast as the current readers, better battery life and
- half as light as any reader on the market
- Has ubiquitous network connectivity and location detection
- Has a display screen that can also be used as an input device
- Costs less than half of any commercially shipping reader
- Has been tested by of millions of users already
- And is a mainstream consumer device already supported by major enterprises.
To learn more about how Spotlight for Android can be leveraged for your Auto-ID based scenarios and requirements give us a call, send an e-mail to info@s3edge.com or register for our next a demo on this topic at http://www.s3edge.com/registration.php
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