keters are always trying to drive costs out
of the business, growth in the number
of will-call consumers factors into the
picture as well.
The company's website is addsys.com.
AUTOMATED
WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS
Automated Wireless Environments offers
a wireless, real-time delivery software
that it announced is being implemented
by UPI Energy LP, based in Guelph,
Ontario. The energy company will use the
software for communications between
its fleet, which operates throughout the
province of Ontario, and its back-office
enterprise system. AWE said it will inter-
face its wireless delivery software with
RoadNet, a routing software, to maxi-
mize delivery efficiency for UPI, a 50-50
joint venture of Suncor Energy Products
and Growmark.
UPI is a marketer of gasoline, diesel
fuels, home heating energy products,
lubricants and energy services to rural
Ontario. On an annual basis, UPI Energy
markets approximately half a billion
liters of petroleum, propane and lubri-
cant products to thousands of customers
across Ontario, including agricultural
member cooperatives. Both Suncor
Energy Products and Growmark are cli-
ents of AWE.
The technology vendor's enter-
prise software, together with its suite of
wireless software products, creates an
automated wireless environment with
real-time connectivity to the user's per-
sonnel in the field. AWE is based in Lake
Hopatcong, N.J. The company's website
is automatedwireless.com.
BASE ENGINEERING
BASEstation is an onboard truck computer
with the Windows CE operating system for
mobile computing. The onboard computer
utilizes Wi-Fi and cellular to communicate;
it can work with cellular providers Verizon,
AT&T, Sprint and US Cellular.
"The system sends GPS points dur-
ing the course of a driver's day, building
a breadcrumb trail to help the office
know where truck has been," said Jason
LeVine, director of sales, truck automa-
tion, for Base Engineering, St. John, New
Brunswick. Further, drivers don't have to
come back to the yard to get new tickets,
LeVine said.
A handheld remote device, called the
"ProControl" remote, uses proprietary
wireless technology to communicate with
BASE systems on a truck to: scan RFID
tags to identify customer, asset, product
and price; provide payload control (start,
pause, stop flow of product); provide
safety ("Estop"); and provide efficiency
(PTO, throttle, and hose reel control).
The screen on the remote provides "a
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