@Road Adds New Landmark Feature to LocationSmart Mobile Resource Management Solution.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2001 @Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), Thursday announced the availability of Landmarks, a new optional feature of FleetASAP(SM), a Web-based mobile resource management solution. FleetASAP services include location, monitoring, messaging, reporting and scheduling capabilities for businesses with mobile resources. The new LocationSmart(TM) Landmarks option is designed to provide FleetASAP subscribers with enhanced scheduling and reporting capabilities by enabling them to post up to 2,000 destinations, such as customer locations, in their customized FleetASAP mapping database by address and/or landmark. Landmarks offer features such as: -- Store up to 2,000 customer landmarks. -- Batch file upload up to three times a month. -- User-definable range for triggering a customer landmark stop to be listed in an activity report. -- Ability to locate 10 of the nearest vehicles to address and/or landmark. -- Ability to display vehicle name, distance from the address and/or landmark, and direction. Paul Dickie, distribution manager for Londonderry Coca-Cola, which provides bottling and distribution of Coca-Cola products throughout four New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. states, said his company became an early user of the Landmarks option to take advantage of the reporting benefits. "We deliver product to over 10 branch distribution centers in Maine, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , Vermont and Massachusetts. We now have these landmarked on FleetASAP so we can verify (1) To prove the correctness of data. (2) In data entry operations, to compare the keystrokes of a second operator with the data entered by the first operator to ensure that the data were typed in accurately. See validate. that deliveries are being made according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. schedule," he explained. "It's a simple, efficient way for us to stay on top of our supply chain management by ensuring that we're fulfilling delivery orders as promised. Plus, the FleetASAP Landmarks feature allows us to automatically generate delivery reports that enable us to better manage our scheduling process." About @Road Based in Fremont, @Road is a provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management. Its patented LocationSmart technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses and mobile professionals. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.atroad.com. Note to Editors: @Road, the @Road logo, LocationSmart and FleetASAP are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road Inc. All other trademarks and/or service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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