Vertical Solutions

Automotive 

The Challenge

Automobiles are all about mobility – keeping people moving, getting from A to B with freedom and control. The automotive industry should have equipment that keep their work moving just as freely. Vehicles are as valuable and necessary a luxury as having a roof over our heads; they make our way of living simpler by bringing everything within closer range and attainability.

The importance of tracking such luxury items cannot be stressed enough, which is where Socket Mobile’s data capture and delivery solutions come into play.

The Solution

Socket Mobile’s barcode scanners are intended to keep the fluidity of a day on the job by improving efficiency and minimizing errors in everyday operations. Just point and click your Socket Mobile barcode scanner with Bluetooth® wireless technology for instant data capture.

"Socket barcode scanners can instantly and accurately capture a vehicle's VIN code. It makes a dealer's job easier and improves a customer's experience."-- Charlie Vogelheim, editor, Kelley Blue Book

All of Socket Mobile’s scanners have their perks, but the DuraScan models were built just as tough as automotive workers – withstanding dirt, falls, and moisture to get the job done.

Whether it is on the production line, an auction, dealership, or even in the parts, services, and maintenance department, Socket Mobile offers solutions that will help keep your auto business revving with increased energy and speed. You can’t race to the finish line unless you have the proper engineering under your hood. Keep your business running smoothly with the help of Socket Mobile scanners.

Socket Mobile’s automotive solutions:

• View inventory in real-time
• Reduce over-stocking materials
• Reduce paper-based processes and minimize errors
• Track vehicle identification number (VIN) information and associated activities
• Look up pricing, inventory, vehicle history or account information anytime, anywhere
• Upload, access, share vehicle inspections and repairs in real-time

Industries

• Maintenance
• Sales
• Manufacturing

Government-Public Sector

The Challenge

Industries working under the Public sector have a lot of pressure. Government jobs represent the people, serving the public. With the weight of the free world on their shoulders, employees also have long wait times, massive paperwork, disgruntled constituents… imagine if there were solutions to streamline the process of so many tasks in the public sector.

Socket Mobile offers government and public sector agencies a flexible business mobility system optimized for use in a wide range of task-specific applications.

The Solution

Socket Mobile offers a unique selection of add-on peripherals, such as bar code scanners, RFID readers, plug-in modems. Together with the knowledge and applications of our vertical industry partners, Socket Mobile provides a cohesive and complete solution for the public sector marketplace.

Our data capture and delivery solution help numerous trades: community events for registering patrons and providing information; mail tracking for more dependable delivery status; public libraries for improved cataloguing and status checking.

In Washington DC, some public libraries are using Socket Mobile barcode scanners with an Apple iPad application for mobile checkout. The application and scanners have updated the catalogue process by skipping shelving carts and desk services, allowing workers to scan and shelve library materials while searching the database and checking people’s status quickly, wherever they are in the building. (Read more on “D.C. Library Staff Tests iPad Services App”).

Depending on the sector’s needs and the chosen application’s capabilities, Socket Mobile’s solutions provide industries the ability to simplify and speed up most point of services.

Socket Mobile’s Government/Public Sector solutions:

• Enable first responders to make fast, accurate decisions by having the information they need readily available
• Reduce costs by standardizing and simplifying processes in the field
• Streamline asset tracking, field automation and inventory management

Industries

• Libraries
• Post Office
• Law Enforcement
• DMV

Healthcare

The Challenge

When caring for patients, sorting medical equipment and medications, keeping a good work flow is essential. Equipment should run hassle-free and make the job easier, not harder. Employees in healthcare have enough on their plate every day in a point of care industry. They work long hours; they require keeping their stations and person sanitary for whatever patient or task that comes their way; they are often drowning in paperwork.

To improve workflow, Socket Mobile offers durable, easy-to-use, easy-to-clean, and comfortable-to-carry barcode scanner options for improved data capture and delivery solutions for the healthcare industry.

The Solution

Socket Mobile’s Bluetooth barcode scanners help reduce the amount of handwritten material by immediately inputting scanned data. Practitioners can make smarter, on-the-spot decisions with instant access to medical records in a facility or when making house calls, as well as improve staff communication and increase efficiency of medical equipment tracking.

Using our scanners in-house, healthcare facilities can increase their patients’ safety with accurate medical charts and medication verification. In addition, using Socket Mobile’s hygiene-sensitive devices that are made with antimicrobial materials, provide an extra layer of protection against spreading bacteria.

Our barcode scanners have helped healthcare professions, like Neuroptics and Kaiser Permanente, run a more painless workflow. Neuroptics is in optical evaluation for assessing bodily health; their facility uses Socket Mobile’s Bluetooth barcode readers for in-house usage, as well as tracking assets (products), alongside their Apple and Android devices. Kaiser Permanente utilizes Socket Mobile’s scanners in a stocking capacity, managing over one million assets on a daily basis. With such a vast supply of resources, it is imperative to use a reliable data capture system, like Socket Mobile scanners.

Socket Mobile’s goal is to allow patients and healthcare professionals to have fewer headaches. Healthcare is meant to help improve the quality of life. Let Socket Mobile help improve the quality of your work life.

Socket Mobile benefits for healthcare partners:

• Bedside medication verification (BPOC / eMAR) (handheld device or portable 2D /1D barcode scanner)
• Pharmacy automation
• Asset Tracking
• Manage inventory and facility inspections
• Keep a more sanitary environment with antimicrobial materials
• Reduce receiving and distributing counterfeit products
• Confirm prescriptions and automate drug inventories
• Meet EPC global Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard for closed loop track & trace
• Securely track electronic certificates of authenticity, or ePedigrees, on-demand access to historical data on individual medicine containers

Services:

• Point of Care
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical Field
• Therapy
• Volunteer

Hospitality

The Challenge

The hospitality industry is comprised of patrons whose expectations are higher than the roof over their heads. When people reside in a temporary dwelling, they expect pampering that allow them to be as comfortable as they are at home, without worrying about any of the obligations of their household. Customers can be easily discouraged with slow service and inaccuracies with orders and reservations. With such demands, business owners and managers can expect impatient customers whose sole purpose is to feel waited on, hand and foot.

In such a demanding field, taking proper steps to ensure patrons’ satisfaction, as well as their return and referral, is crucial in keeping such businesses alive. Giving customers the illusion of a home away from home is both a simple, yet complicated concept.

The Solution

Give your guests the best experience possible by shortening their lines and waiting times with the use of Socket Mobile’s barcode scanners. Whether your business or entertainment facility is a hotel, restaurant, casino, or other, we offer a variety of mobile solutions with our Series 7, DuraScan and 800 Series/DuraCase products.

You can capture data and deliver solutions to your customers with the ease of a click of a button. Provide a tableside ordering system with the use of Socket Mobile barcode scanners that are fast and reliable, as well as easy to use. When customers are happy, servers can increase the consistency of their tips. The simplicity of the devices also speeds along the training of new employees. Efficiency is key, and Socket Mobile’s devices help along the dependability and speed of the POS process.

As a manager or owner, ease your own mind with more durable and customizable equipment for your employees. Help reduce your paper clutter with Socket Mobile’s handheld scanners to minimize the workload and relieve staff. Happy workers create a pleasant environment for your customers’ improved experience and return visits.

Industries:

• Tableside order entry / Mobile Point of Sale (POS)
• Guest or curbside check-in
• Poolside service
• Inventory and asset management
• Facility maintenance and inspections
• Ticket scanning
• Age verification
• E-ticketing
• Events

Socket Mobile’s Hospitality Customers:

• Legends Sports Bar
• Studio Movie Grill
• ORM Event

Logistics

The Challenge

The backbone of a business is in the warehouse and distribution workers - physically moving products, tracking and handling merchandise before a consumer lays eyes on them can be a difficult and time-consuming set of responsibilities. Plenty of miscalculations on deliveries and stocking are easily made without the use of a secure and dependable tracking system.

The Solution

With data capture and delivery solutions, Socket Mobile’s barcode scanners aid the management system of warehouses with real-time reflections of inventory and orders, enabling a constant connection to corporate networks. Companies like Google and Eby-Brown maintain their warehouses with the use of Socket Mobile Bluetooth barcode scanners keeping track of inventory. For field service, Google Express has discovered the convenience of using Socket Mobile’s scanners. With Google’s same-day and overnight delivery service from retailers, our scanners’ light weight and durability are ideal choices for those heavy lifters and accident-prone situations. Eby-Brown uses Socket Mobile’s barcode readers alongside their iPad Mini Application, tracking their inventory in-house. As a leading whole seller for the convenience industry, Eby-Brown delivers solutions to retailers and distributors of all sizes. Helping other businesses grow is a big job, but that’s what Socket Mobile helps Eby Brown do. Envia Mi Compra uses Socket Mobile’s scanners to improve their international delivery system. With their own tracking application, the incorporation of Socket Mobile’s attachable S800 barcode readers have helped improve the company’s tracking of every package and every payment in real-time. The jobs in a warehouse are physically demanding. The coordination of the details of a business’ deliveries and stocking can be back-breaking and headache-inducing. Socket Mobile’s scanning solutions lighten that workload and stress just a little bit. Socket Mobile’s Bluetooth barcode readers enable quick access to inventory; businesses are armed with easy-to-use data capture and delivery solutions for quicker responses to customers. A happy customer is a loyal customer.

Socket Mobile logistics solution advantages:

• Update orders and inventory immediately
• Access inventory status throughout supply chain
• Access up-to-date reports and databases anytime, anywhere
• Minimize overstocking and inventory misplacement
• Reduce paper usage with automated processes

Industries:

• Tracking & Transport
• Field Service
• Inventory
• Operations Management

Life Sciences

The Challenge

Following strict protocols and conducting experiments to improve the quality of life is all part of the stressful and demanding work in Life Sciences. In such a field, scientists and researchers would welcome the chance to decrease errors, improve productivity and reduce costs.

The Solution

With Socket Mobile’s scanning solutions, life just got a bit easier. Point and click for data capture and delivery of information. Whether it be science, technology or medicine, your job is too important to allow inaccuracies or equipment technicalities to inhibit the progression of work. The dependable Series 7, 700 Series, and 800 Series barcode scanners provide options that are intended to make your job have fewer hassles by avoiding manual data updates, or worrying over the contamination of germs.

We understand how important and stressful science can be. Let Socket Mobile help streamline your productivity.

Socket Mobile solutions for life sciences:

• Track floating inventory in real time
• Reduce costs and encourage innovation
• Optimize flow of scientific and operational data
• Bring therapies to market faster
• Integrate disparate applications and infrastructure (includes legacy IT systems)
• Meet the EPC global Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard for closed loop track & trace
• Securely track electronic certificates of authenticity, or ePedigree, for historical data on individual containers of medicine
• Reduce spread of germs with antimicrobial material

Retail/POS

The Challenge

Putting customers first is the best solution for any business. If customers are not left satisfied, they will not return and they will not refer your business to new customers. When customers have questions about products’ availability, those concerns must be addressed in an accurate and timely fashion if you hope to hold on to those customers and sales.

Setting up a reliable shop that is temporary can be tricky. Pop-up corporations, like Mercedes and Jake’s Fireworks, require quick and easy installation, for seasonal, part-time, and mobile employees. Maintaining the reputation of a brand’s name requires smooth transitioning from one location to another.

In today’s technological age, customers expect more and businesses need to meet those expectations as best as possible. A retailer should be able to sell from anywhere with their mobile devices - Apple®, Android, Windows®; enhance their corporate image with colorful, sleek products that customers will notice; use a comfortable, ergonomic design that employees will appreciate; and utilize a smooth, quick solution that will make everyone’s part in the transactions happy.

The Solution

Socket Mobile’s barcode scanners are chosen by both independent developers and point of sale (POS) retail merchants, like Hobby Lobby, American Greetings, Jake’s Fireworks and Mercedes for their mainstream tablet solutions. The Series 7 models (7Ci, 7Mi, 7Qi,7Pi) offer data capture and delivery solutions that allow their businesses to run smoother, so customers are more fulfilled.

With the help of Socket Mobile’s scanners, retailers like Hobby Lobby are able to check their inventory of products in real-time, for better customer service. The business also maintains their front counter service with their mPOS system, using the iPad® along with Socket Mobile’s quick and easy-to-use barcode scanners.

American Greetings uses part-time merchandisers to replenish stock of their greetings cards at their distributors’ stores. Using scanners for field service with their Android tablets, Socket Mobile has helped deploy a dependable system for American Greetings to track and sell their products at varying locations.

As one of the largest distributors of consumer class fireworks, Jake’s Fireworks relies on seasonal pop up shops, which require out of the box POS usage, with quick and easy installation for their seasonal staff. Using Socket Mobile’s Colorful Series 7 barcode readers, their POS system has become a well-oiled machine, providing real-time status on inventory to decipher better decision-making for improved product distribution.

Mercedes uses Shopify at POS, with their pop up shops. The upscale and temporary locations must uphold their visitors’ expectations while maintaining the same customer experience. Socket Mobile’s scanners help keep a smooth transition from one location to the next.

Socket Mobile’s Bluetooth barcode readers enable quick access to inventory; businesses are armed with easy-to-use data capture and delivery solutions for quicker responses to customers. A happy customer is a loyal customer.

Socket Mobile retail solution advantages:

• Display full product catalog and upselling options at a glance
• Provide accurate pricing, account and stock information on the sales floor
• Capture inventory and merchandise information quickly and accurately
• Scan mobile coupons and loyalty/gift cards on device screens
• Enhance your corporate image with color, style and comfort

Services

• Inventory Front Counter Service Field Service Pop-Up Shops
• Additional Retail Customers
• McCormicks Chanel WH Smith The North Face