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Telematics – an intelligent future, like it or not
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Aug/Sept 2008
Tough tablet for field service or fork trucks
 A tablet PC aimed at both road-going vehicles and forklift trucks has been added to the range of California-based WebDT, which is distributed in the UK by Xperience. The Web-DT 520 runs Microsoft Windows XP Embedded or Windows XP Professional operating systems. It comes with a 12.1in TFT LCD touch screen, an AMD 1 GHz Sempron processor, up to 16GB of flash memory, and a hard disk up to 120GB or a solid-state disk of 32GB or 64GB. It is rugged. The design is fanless, and it is said to comply with IP65 and MILSTD-810F standards for dust/water ingress and shocks. Communication capability includes support for Bluetooth Class 2, Ethernet-compliant 10/100/1000 Base-T LAN and wireless networking to 802.11a/b/g standards. 
There is an optional battery pack, which is implemented as an uninterruptible power supply system to protect the device from unstable power sources. DLoG mobile computers join Seiki stable The DLoG range of handheld and mobile computers has changed hands. DLoG (UK) has been acquired by the Kenard Engineering Group, whose best-known business is probably Seiki Systems, a specialist in manufacturing execution software solutions. DLoG has been producing industrial PCs for displaying CAD data and mobile and handheld terminals for some years. Like Seiki, it has extensive experience in manufacturing applications, but has also expanded into producing handheld devices for logistics and warehousing – an initiative Kenard says it will maintain. Kenard says it will be business as usual at DLoG. The company will continue to operate from its Birmingham headquarters under the leadership of John Davis, and will continue to supply its current range of hardware and software. Existing customer service and support contracts will be honoured. The company will now sit alongside Seiki in Kenard's software division. The larger Kenard group makes a logical home for DLoG, since its speciality is contract manufacturing, especially of precision components. It has factory sites at Dartford and Tewkesbury. DLoG was originally formed from several constituent companies including Symonds DMS, Sandvik Coromant and Sandvik Automation.
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