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Equipment Tracking and Belgravium form an alliance

Monday, January 18, 2010

Equipment Tracking, developers of software solutions for pallet and equipment tracking, announced the signing of a partnership agreement with Belgravium, a developer of rugged mobile computer devices.

Combining Equipment Tracking’s software with Belgravium’s hardware, the team is targeting manufacturing, warehousing and logistics organizations to better enable end-to-end control of equipment pool.

Equipment Tracking plans to employ Belgravium’s Boston 8500 and Atlanta 8000 series rugged handheld devices as a hardware platform for their MPC and ERICA solutions, providing improved traceability, handling efficiency and better information about the location and condition of products via the incorporation of RFID functionality. [end] 

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