
I have been around mobile computing for twenty-five years starting with my days at Symbol Technologies. At that time we were providing applications and wireless connectivity on Windows CE and PalmOS devices. The platforms were pretty revolutionary for the time as they included a bar code scanner in the nose and 802.11b enabled and the first ruggged devices for the enterprise.
Fast forward to 2024 and the overall industry has dramatically changed. The advent of the smart phone changed everything. However, the tenets of how a device needs to work in the enterprise have not changed. The devices need really good radios to work on an enterprise network with for effective roaming, proper security, be rugged and reliable, while now providing effective scanning, and finally a low TCO. In the past fifteen years companies have tried push the use of “personal” devices on the enterprise in a grand experiment that has failed miserably.
A large part of the failure lay into the use of sub-par radios that could not work on a enterprise environment, but the bigger issue is that they were not designed with features needed in the enterprise.
Who is DataLogic? What is their history and heritage? Until most recently I never heard of this company ? This public Italian company made history over fifty years ago by producing the first commercial bar code scan, and the infamous good-reed “beep” They are approximately 2,900 employees with world-wide manufacturing and distribution.
What is needed for now mobile computing design criteria for the years ahead? This boils down into several major areas, wireless communications, electrical, environmental, physical characteristics, reading performance, sensors, interfaces, audio, safety and regulatory, the software, the system, and finally the warranty . After reading the technical specification data sheet of the Memor 35, I am blown away.! Currently, I have one of these devices in my office and I am putting it through the paces of testing. The datasheet is attached for review and well as the flyer for this product
The radio technologies and why this is important?
The Memor 30-35 family incorporates every available radio technology and certifications that you can imagine and then some. It even has GPS. One nice feature is the application Wi-Fi Guard. I have never seen this on a mobile device. This application allows for ping testing to show packet round trip time as well as the RSSI to the connected SSID. Very helpful to help trouble shoot connectivity on the WLAN.
My initial summation and value proposition.
The Memor 30-35 family by DataLogic meets and exceeds all the enterprise requirements for mobile computing today. I see nothing in the mobile computing space that even comes close. It has a total cost of ownership that cannot be beat. As I get in the detail of my evaluation, further blogs will go into the nitty gritty of each feature set and why this is important. Overall job well done by engineering and knowing the marketing requirements.
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