At Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminal, a quick scan of employees’ fingerprints is opening the door to heightened security and enhanced productivity. When workers arrive for their shifts, they place their fingertips on a handheld scanning device to learn their job assignments and manage critical tracking information for the one million cargo items they process every day. The largest air cargo terminal in the world at 600,000 square feet, the Hong Kong facility is meeting its security needs without compromising productivity with a sophisticated pervasive computing solution from Irvine, California-based Consumer Direct Link (CDL). Founded in 2000, CDL is a pioneer of pervasive computing networks and developed the cargo terminal’s solution with its Paron Multipurpose PC (MPC) personal digital assistant (PDA). Packed with functionality, Paron MPC requires a robust mobile database in order to support an array of custom e-business applications that the company’s clients want. For CDL, the choice was simple: IBM DB2 Everyplace for Linux.
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