Pharmaceutical company uses Blackberry PDAs to track assets

Many companies across a range of industry sectors provide their employees with Blackberry PDAs as remote office tools. Historically, if they also wanted mobile RFID capability they had to invest additionally in more expensive RFID embedded handheld computers. Now, thanks to Tracient Technologies' handheld RFID readers, they can invest in a low cost handheld reader which simply reads RFID tags and collects the data, then transfers it to their Blackberry via Bluetooth. From there it can be processed/ stored in an application on the Blackberry and/or transferred anywhere via the Blackberry's gprs.

A recent example of this was the use of Blackberry PDAs and Tracient's Padl-R HF RFID readers by Farmacias del Ahorro, a pharmacy chain that has 700 franchise stores through out Mexico.

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