Keeping playgrounds safe

Brisbane City Council (BCC) is responsible for keeping 2,229 playgrounds safe. A playground can become unsafe through wear and tear or vandalism.  There are  playground inspectors who conduct around 300 playground inspections per month. These inspectors previously used pen and paper to complete their inspection reports which were filed using a paper based system. 
 
BCC wanted a system that would result in the field data being available in electronic format and in one database to allow searching.

Haden innovates with laminated forms for it's digital pen users

Haden has over 600 service technicians in 38 branches. Haden have been using Destiny Digital Pens for five years. Recently Haden extended their use of the Destiny digital pens to its regular maintenance form but this time had the forms laminated so they could be used over and again.

Asset Management and Reporting

The major issuers of service industry tenders are now asking for proof that an asset has been visited and for detailed reporting concerning every event that happens to an asset. Our OSEC (On Site Equipment Card) system caters for registration of assets, proof of a technician's visit and detailed reporting of every event including regular maintenance or break and fix.

Metric Replaces PDAs with Digital Pens

With 150 field service staff, providing maintenance services to petrol stations Metric wanted to have immediate access to their service reports and AIP forms to enable faster invoicing and improved customer service.

Print4Pen

Print4Pen is software licensed to run on a desktop or a laptop computer which has access to a postscript laser printer. If you can turn a document to a PDF, and you have a Postscript laser printer handy, then you can use your Destiny digital pen with Print4Pen.

Print4Pen accesses our digital pen server over the web and requests a dot pattern license. It prints the document with a unique layer of Anoto dots for each page, ready to be used with Destiny Wireless Australia digital pen services.

A Note on Anoto AB

The core technology behind the Destiny Digital Pen & Paper solution is not really the pen (although the pen is pretty cool). The real genius of the system is in the paper, or to be more precise, it’s on the paper.

The Digital Paper technology is enabled through a proprietary `Dot Pattern’ which was developed and is owned and licensed by Anoto AB of Sweden. Your Digital paper form is created by printing a proprietary pattern of very small dots on ordinary paper as part of the printing of your forms.

Destiny acquires Logitech’s digital pen based on Anoto technology

Lund, 21st of December 2007 – Destiny has announced the purchase from Logitech of Logitech’s assets and intellectual property rights (IP) relating to Logitech’s io2 digital pen. The io2 is based on Anoto Group’s technology and intellectual property rights. It facilitates rapid data capture and transmission from digital forms using either a Bluetooth or USB connection and incorporates a barcode reading facility. Anoto’s technology and intellectual property rights will be licensed to Destiny.

Digital Pen or PDA?

Digital Pens and PDAs both have their place in the market and both have their own strengths & weaknesses. But what is the right choice for your business – Digital Pen or PDA?

In the context of this article we are looking at the use of Digital Pens & PDAs for field staff, be they technicians, tradesmen, sales reps or surveyors.

About Destiny Wireless

Destiny Wireless is the market leader for Digital Pens in Australia and New Zealand.

Over 5 years ago we introduced the Digital Pen technology to Australia and have remained the number one provider of Digital Pen solutions in Australia and one of the leading Digital Pen and Paper Providers in the world.

Destiny currently has over 4,000 digital pens across Australia/NZ.

Destiny is the only Anoto Platinum Partner to service Australia and New Zealand.

Digital Pens Can Help in Swine Flu Pandemic

In an excellent study into the use of digital pen technology, Solano County in California USA has implemented a trial how Solano County Public Health could process the assesment and vaccination to achieve the benchmark of 350 people per hour in case of a flu pandemic.