Leveraging The Value Of Imaging In Enterprise Mobility Applications

Bar code scanning has come to play a central role in today's enterprise, eliminating manual processes and bringing a new level of automation, productivity and accuracy to a wide range of applications. But in contrast, mobile image capture — photographs and video — is not nearly as common in today's enterprises. this low adoption rate is primarily due to technology limitations:

• Lower resolution cameras incorporated into mobile devices and smart phones were incapable of capturing the level of detail needed in enterprise applications.
• Existing long-range fixed focus technology posed a challenge for the capture of photographs and documents at close range — documents were often illegible and photographs often lacked clarity and detail.
• The lower bandwidth of older cellular networks resulted in lengthy transmission times for large image files, often adding time and cost to everyday processes.

When GPs technology meets the high resolution color camera, geostamping becomes a reality — the ability to append photographs with a time stamp as well as latitude and longitude data. Geostamping offers a new level of efficiency and accountability for field activities. the ability to augment photographs with GPs information provides organizations with undisputable confirmation that maintenance, service and inspection activities were performed at the right time and place — complete with a verifiable audit trail.