Xerox Selects I.D. Systems' PowerKeyPLUS for Wireless Industrial Fleet Management

Xerox Corporation has selected I.D. Systems PowerKeyPLUS wireless industrial vehicle monitoring system. The system will be deployed on a fleet of forklifts at a Xerox distribution center in Ohio. The order was facilitated by Hy-Tek Material Handling, a national provider of integrated systems solutions and an Ohio-based dealer of Yale industrial lift trucks.

 

PowerKeyPLUS provides vehicle access control, safety checklists and impact sensing — the most popular functions for managing the inherent safety and maintenance issues associated with industrial vehicles.

 

“We are very pleased to add another world-class company like Xerox to our growing customer base,’’ said Peter Fausel, I.D. Systems’ executive vice president of sales, marketing and customer service. “We look forward to introducing our best-practice technology to Xerox to help them manage the intrinsic safety, productivity, and operational cost issues associated with fleets of material handling vehicles.”

 

PowerKeyPLUS also serves as a platform for seamless expansion to I.D. Systems’ Wireless Asset Net fleet management technology.

 

Wireless industrial vehicle management systems improve workplace safety and security by restricting vehicle access to trained, authorized operators, providing electronic vehicle safety inspection checklists, and sensing vehicle impacts.

 

These systems also reduce fleet maintenance costs by automatically uploading vehicle data, reporting vehicle problems electronically, scheduling maintenance according to actual vehicle usage rather than by calendar or manual data entry, and helping determine the optimal economic time to replace equipment.

 

In addition, wireless fleet management systems help improve productivity by establishing accountability for use of equipment, ensuring equipment is in the proper place at the right time, streamlining work flow through automated messaging, and providing management with unique metrics on, and controls over, equipment utilization.

 

I.D. Systems is a provider of wireless solutions for managing and securing high-value enterprise assets. The company’s patented Wireless Asset Net system, which utilizes radio frequency identification, or RFID, technology, addresses the needs of organizations to control, track, monitor and analyze their assets.