MCL Voice

Key to delivering hands free mobile applications, such as order picking, is that MCL-Voice offers voice-to-data and data-to-voice transaction input and output. It is also features speech-to-text and text-to-speech voice control for navigation within mobile worker applications.

"As a progressive company, this accreditation positions Sandpiper to meet new customer requirements" stated Simon Hagenbuch, Sandpiper's Managing Director. Sandpiper's experience in the AutoID market gives you the opportunity to use voice where genuinely beneficial, whilst using standard equipment that can be used elsewhere in the operation. A practical knowledge of warehousing operations means Sandpiper can design the optimum MCL Voice system, mixing operational efficiency with accuracy.

MCL Collection is a sophisticated software suite for mobile workforce application development and deployment. Sandpiper utilises this enterprise-ready software suite to write and deploy applications across leading mobile and wireless platforms. These applications offer support for multimodal access and data input with technologies such as voice, touchscreen, wireless, barcode scanning, imaging, RFID.

Features/Functionality:

• Open systems environment supports leading mobile and wireless devices.
• Multimodal support for voice, barcode scanning, RFID, Imaging, keyboard, touch screen and more.
• Integrated ODBC support with update, retrieval, insert and more.
• Multiple communications modes with serial, Wireless WAN, LAN, PAN.
• Reliable data exchange and application updates or maintenance.

Key Benefits:

• Increases mobile worker efficiency and productivity
• Allows hands free operation so mobile workers can focus on other activities, such as moving goods.
• Allows eyes free operation so mobile workers can focus on other activities such as driving or stocking product.
• Multi-Modal Real Time Solutions

Each application can use any combination of data entry method and user interface technology including Voice, Barcode, Keyboard, Touch Screen, RFID. The application fields may be configured to accept multiple inputs; for instance the quantity input field in a picking application may be keyed in or spoken; either way this is transparent to the host computer. Mobile Workers use whichever data capture method is most efficient and convenient to perform the task at hand.