Palm HPK012 - Manual (Page 5)

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1. Introduction
Power and telecom cables often use the same utility pole. Telecom companies
often lease space on poles owned by power companies (and vice versa). Telecom
companies pay a significant sum to power companies for this leased space.
Telecom lines are often moved and occasionally leased poles are no longer used.
Pole Track allows you to inventory poles so the power companies are paid only
for the poles actually used.
Pole Track Terminal
Pole Track operates on the Symbol SPT handheld terminal and uses an
operating system based on the Palm III operating system. Pole Track
terminals include some standard Palm III “organizer” functions, an
integrated bar code scanner, and a GPS module.
GPS Module
The GPS (Global Positioning System) module provides precise longitude
and latitude coordinates to Pole Track. The GPS module connects to the
bottom of the terminal and uses an internal antenna to receive the GPS data
from the satellites.
Tracking Poles
The terminal prompts for information about each pole and each pole
attachment. The terminal stores the collected pole data and you then send
the collected data to the Pole Track server. The server receives the pole data
and it uses this data to update its master database.
Summary
Pole Track provides an intuitive and efficient way to track the poles used
for telecom cables.