Sports equipment management
The French ski resort Les Deux Alpes, organisers of the 17th Mondial du Ski et du Snow exhibition, introduced a new test management system at this unique European event, which gives visitors the chance to try out, free of charge and before the season starts, all the new equipment and accessories for the following winter, e.g. skis, masks, goggles, helmets.
They installed a high-tech flow management solution able to keep complete track of equipment and accessories on site, and needed a mobile data collection system that would be able to operate in difficult environments and to withstand adverse weather conditions: altitude of 3200m, temperatures of close to -12°C, wind speeds of up to 60 km/h, extremely difficult installation conditions, lack of humidity and therefore large quantities of dust.
Rugged mobile handhelds with Wifi and touch screen were used: the staff scanned bar coded visitors’ passes at the entrance to the exhibitor’s village. On leaving the village, the principle was the same: visitors would show their passes to register the bar coded equipment they had taken out on loan.
Once tested, they presented their pass and the equipment taken out on loan so that it could be registered as returned. This system enabled equipment to be taken in and out, and all outgoing and incoming items to be identified.
Stand exhibitors also used the mobile computers to enter the personal details of each visitor who used the service for identification purposes. All this meant that, at the end of each day, it was possible to know what equipment had been tested, who had tested it and what tests had been recorded during the event. There was also a record of what equipment had not been returned. In total, the nine units at the event recorded about 10,000 tests in the space of six days.
Stand exhibitors also used the mobile computers to enter the personal details of each visitor who used the service for identification purposes. All this meant that, at the end of each day, it was possible to know what equipment had been tested, who had tested it and what tests had been recorded during the event. There was also a record of what equipment had not been returned. In total, the nine units at the event recorded about 10,000 tests in the space of six days.
Supplier: Datalogic
Product: Skorpio
Product: Skorpio
