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The increasing use of barcode scanners is constantly making the barcode scanner market bigger and bigger. Through 2027 it's said to expand at 7.6% CAGR.

Designed for the automotive and industrial control industries, a new CAN bus expansion module facilitates efficient communication between a rugged tablet computer and devices that operate over a CAN interface, such as sensors, controllers, and actuators.

A brand new rugged Android PDA that just hit the market is the Handheld Nautiz X9. The device can be used as a mobile computer, data collector or field controller and offers a wide range of features.

Ruggedness specs should include, as a minimum, what kind of fall a device can survive while it's on, what temperature range it can reliably operate in, how well protected it is against dust and liquids, how much vibration it can handle.

Increasing repair costs of damaged smartphones around the globe should per logic mean that people got more educated about understanding TCO, (Total Cost of Ownership). Unfortunately, that isn't the case at all.

Last week we attended the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India which highlighted how geospatial technologies will play a key role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

From a user perspective, ruggedness is decided based on how well the device operates whilst being exposed to all kinds of conditions. But can it really be decided like that or how is it defined?

The latest issue of Supply Chain IT magazine features a story on how the Handheld Algiz 10X rugged Windows tablet...

Last week, we were at the ASIS security expo in Dallas, Texas. We found that the most common uses for...

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