@Remote shows promise for laborious meter-reading
On May 10, Ricoh held a press conference at Ricoh's Technology Portal in Chicago in Chicago announcing eight color devices, but @Remote, called "an intelligent remote device relationship management system" that can monitor up to 500 devices remotely, may have the most application for the copier marketplace because of the meter- reading capability.
Remote meter-reading has been available for a long time, but perfecting it has been the software hurdle. @Remote system takes a lot of the sweat and time out of meter-reading and perfects the process.
The @Remote finds printing devices and. appliances and collects data from both networked laser printers and multifunction products (MFPs), feeding the information over the Internet through a network that is secure and giving very specific reports about each device.
The color devices introduced at the press conference included the Aficio 3224C, Aficio 3228C, Aficio 3235C, Aficio 3245C, Aficio 3260C, Aficio Color 5560, Aficio CL7200, and the Aficio CL7300.
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