Zebra Technologies Zatar: IoT Made Simple

In October 2013, Zebra Technologies announced Zatar, an open-platform, plug-and-play, cloud-based solution to connect and control your Internet of Things devices, wherever those devices might be. Zatar’s simple, intuitive interface also allows collaboration with all members of your extended team to, as Zebra puts it, “Share data. Take action.” Plus, the Zatar interface is optimized…

How Can Technology Keep Me Safe?

Technology has not only made the way for communities to make improvements and bring the life back to certain areas, but it also has had a significant, positive impact in Law Enforcement.  Technology has allowed officials to not only keep our communities safer, but has also helped them to mitigate their own risk, which is…

7 Reasons To Implement Zebra Technologies’ RTLS

Wikipedia defines choreography as “The art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified.” Imagine choreographing a ballet in which the performers are wearing blinders, unable to see their partners until each moves within their narrow fields of view. They have no advance peripheral clues that help them anticipate and…

Point-of-Care Test Barcoding Yields 593% Reduction in Specimen Mislabeling

I wrote recently about the importance of establishing reliable patient- and specimen-identification protocols and of then following them. That last part, actually following established protocol, may seem too obvious to waste space here saying, but my research revealed that simply failure to follow established procedures is indeed a leading, if not the leading, cause of…

Flour, water, yeast and Zebra’s MZ 320 Mobile Printer!

What’s in the recipe for the best hamburger buns in Southern California? Flour, water, yeast, love of baking, and Zebra’s MZ 320 Mobile Printer. Imagine you’re in the business of producing specialty breads and that your chosen customer niche consists of more than 2000 regional restaurants, food stands and coffee shops. Day in, day out,…

Big Data To The Rescue!

What is Big Data and how is it used?  We get this question a lot.  We defi ne big data as huge amounts of data collected through the public sector.  It’s all the data compiled from police departments, the DMV, the DOT, our courthouses, etc.  There are others, like retailers, who also collect data that…

Do Consumer Devices Make the Grade in Law Enforcement?

In previous blogs we talked about the transition from a manual ticket-writing process to an automated (e-citation) process and the huge time and money savings that occurs when this task is automated.  We also touched briefly on the devices in the patrol car that are used to collect data.  I think it’s worth spending a…

The Cloud Made Simple

It’s hard to master big concepts like Cloud Computing with head down and full focus on the nuts-and-bolts components upon which such grand-but-figurative infrastructures depend. I’m a literal sort working with literal components for whom thoughts of figurative infrastructures can be distracting. The Cloud, Big Data, The Internet of Things? Huge, empowering concepts, no doubt,…

A Stitch in Time Saves Lives

Have you ever thought about the amount of time and paper we’ve saved with the electronic age?  I remember the days of the fax machine when I had to go through so many steps to get information to someone.  Type it up, print it out, fax it over.  Then came email … attaching files to…