Telxon Installs Wireless Check-In System at Avis Rent A Car Locations

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6 January 1998

Telxon Installs Wireless Check-In System at Avis Rent A Car Locations


    AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 6 -- Telxon Corporation
announced today that it has installed a unique dual mode wireless mobile
information system that speeds access to rental cars for Avis preferred
customers.
    The system, called Wizard on Wheels, or WOW, is the first Telxon
installation of a mobile wireless connectivity solution in which both local
and wide area networking capabilities are jointly integrated in the same
mobile computing devices.
    When an Avis Preferred customer boards the bus through the front door, the
driver obtains the Preferred customer's name and verifies it on a manifest
loaded into a Telxon PTC-870IM fixed mounted mobile computer, which contains
both ARDIS wire-area and 2.4 GHz local area spread spectrum radios.
    The customer's name is instantly transmitted via the ARDIS network to the
Avis host computer.  Reservation data is accessed to automatically complete
the rental.  The driver is instructed via the PTC-870IM to drop the customer
at their assigned vehicle.
    For customers entering via the rear door of the bus, the driver utilizes a
Telxon PTC-1134 mobile pen-based computer to check the manifest for the
reservation.
    When the driver returns to the front of the bus, the PTC-ll34 is placed in
a cradle which communicates the information on all of the rear-boarding
customers to the adjacent PTC-870IM, which acts as an in-bus controller and
relays the customer names via the ARDIS network to the host.
    The 2.4 GHz spread spectrum radio installed in the PTC-870IM is utilized
to constantly update the customer manifests.  Each time the bus passes a
designated point in the car rental lot, a new manifest is downloaded to the
PTC-870IM and then transmitted into the PTC-ll34.
    Telxon Corporation is a leading global designer and manufacturer of
wireless and mobile information systems for vertical markets.  The company
integrates advanced mobile computing and wireless data communication
technology with a wide array of peripherals, application-specific software and
global customer services for its customers in more than 60 countries around
the world.  Telxon's global web site address is:  http://www.telxon.com.

SOURCE  Telxon Corporation