More small law enforcement agencies are adopting BlackBerry as their secure mobile data platform. As the ‘early majority’ players in the mobile law enforcement market, they are taking advantage of better technology at a lower cost compared to early adopters with ruggedized laptops in the field. For the cost of a single laptop-equipped vehicle, smaller agencies can equip twenty or more field staff with BlackBerry devices as well as Mobile Innovations data and other solutions on their existing data plans. They can equip five vehicles with mobile PlayBook offices for the same cost. They can also take advantage of new productivity boosters like enterprise voice-to-text reporting.

Known as the go-to BlackBerry and PlayBook apps provider for large police services in Canada and the UK, and agencies with larger fleets and jurisdictions, Mobile Innovations is seeing new interest from solution-hungry customers in smaller centres like Cobourg, where the police service is rolling out the BlackBerry platform.

Like other non-urban agencies, they chose Blackberry as the most secure platform for mobile voice, apps, data and email, comprised of:

•      A broad mix of apps and turnkey solutions including Dictation and Mobile Office
•      Solutions for BlackBerry Z10, Q10 and PlayBook
•      A friendly interface with a crisp user experience
•      ROI-proven, secure and scalable solutions and apps
•      Turnkey solutions with no monthly user fees.

Mobile Innovations President and founder Gary Bauer and the company’s CTO Geof Bosworth will be meeting with Chiefs of Police at the upcoming Niche User Group Conference and BlackBerry Live 2013, as well as between the two events.

“Our customers in smaller communities have much wider territories to patrol, with tighter budgets and fewer staff.” says Bauer. “Our BlackBerry solution fits their bill and puts intel, data and closer communications at the fingertips of their entire field staff for a fractional cost no matter where they are.”

If you would like to speak directly with Gary Bauer or Geof Bosworth regarding MPADictation, MPANICHE or MPAMobileOffice, you can do so at the NICHE User Group Conference or BlackBerry Live:

Niche Users Group Conference 2013:
May 6th – 9th, 2013,
Toronto, Ontario

BlackBerry Live 2013:
May 13th – 16th 2013
Orlando, Florida.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb&(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing productivity with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over sixty clients across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

 MPA Dication takes the pain and worry out of onerous reporting in the field.

 New Mobile PlayBook Office makes office work in the field simple and affordable.

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On the heels of launching MPADictation — his company’s new mobile dictation app for BlackBerry 10 — Mobile Innovations President Gary Bauer will himself be using this new enterprise app to stay on top of business while on the road. Attending the NICHE User Group (NUG) Conference in Toronto and BlackBerry Live 2013 in Orlando the following week to see the BlackBerry Q10 with smart card capability for two-factor authentication, Bauer will use his new app to securely file contact reports from the events as well as the meetings he has set up with key customers and partners.

On the road from the start of the NUG conference on May 6th, to the conclusion of BlackBerry Live on May 16th, Bauer says “It’s great to be able to use and experience our own solution in the field, just like our customers do.” Explains Bauer, “I stopped carrying a laptop years ago, and I can dictate much faster than typing with two thumbs, so this lets me stay on top of all my activities.”

At the NUG Conference Mobile Innovations will be talking about voice integration directly with enterprise RMS (Record Management Systems). NicheRMS is a unified RMS that manages data in relation to people, locations, vehicles, organizations, and occurrences. Mobile Innovations is the company’s mobile partner and go-to solutions provider for BlackBerry 10 and PlayBook solutions. Mobile Innovations products put NicheRMS functionality onto BlackBerry and PlayBook, providing mobile personnel with key intel at their fingertips.

At BlackBerry’s Partner Day, the BlackBerry Live opener exclusively for BlackBerry Alliance Partners, Bauer and his CTO Geof Bosworth will be on hand to rub shoulders with their many public sector contacts. Mobile Innovations is a longstanding BlackBerry Alliance Partner in the public sector market and won the Innovation Award for Public Sector for its BlackBerry work with the Chatham-Kent Police in 2011. The company was recognized for its work putting data at the fingertips of those who need it, and simplifying the process of reporting and gathering intelligence.

Between shows, Mobile Innovations executives have scheduled a number of meetings with Chiefs of Police from smaller agencies and some larger jurisdictions. “We’re starting to see more business from agencies with thirty or forty officers because the numbers make good economic sense.” Explains Bauer. “They can outfit their entire force with BlackBerry 10s for same dollar amount it takes to up-fit one cruiser with a ruggedized laptop.”

At both events Bauer and Bosworth will be meeting with development teams from Nuance to advance their mutual interest in secure, mobile voice integration with RMS and enterprise data. For the past two years, Nuance and Mobile Innovations have worked closely together with Java BlackBerry devices to simplify the user experience and increase productivity with voice-to-text transcription for:

Activity reports
Street checks
Witness statements
Occurrence reports

If you would like to speak directly with Gary Bauer or Geof Bosworth regarding MPADictation, MPANICHE or MPAMobileOffice, you can do so at the NICHE User Group Conference or BlackBerry Live:

Niche Users Group Conference 2013:
May 6th – 9th, 2013,
Toronto, Ontario

BlackBerry Live 2013:
May 13th – 16th 2013
Orlando Orlando, Florida.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing productivity with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over sixty clients across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

MPA Dication takes the pain and worry out of onerous reporting in the field.

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In a few short weeks the Cobourg Police service will be one of 15 services across Canada allowing officers to use Blackberry devices to access information on vehicles and individuals.

Gary Bauer, President of Mobile Innovations of Niagara Falls, said “it’s the sum total of police knowledge at your finger tips.”

A total of 28 officers will be equipped with a Blackberry 9900 and a Blackberry Smart card reader.

Bauer said it will allow the officers to run license plates, check their tasks, run individuals and write general reports from inside their cruisers.

The program has been in the works with service for approximately one year.

“Most of the work they can do in an office, they can now do with their Blackberry’s in the field,” said Bauer.

The technology has been in place for the last five years to access the information from a Blackberry. Along with more services in Canada using the system, six police services in Britain are also using the technology.

Blackberry is the only hand-held device that meets the needs for the security of the system because it is encrypted and also uses a Smart Card Reader that is known as a Two Factor Authentification.

Bauer explains the Smart Card Reader is similar to a credit card and has a chip. Each officer will have both a Blackberry and a Smart Card Reader for security reasons.

“In Canada the only wireless handheld device that is approved to access this kind of data is the Blackberry – secure, encrypted communication.”

Phase two of the program will be installing Blackberry tablets inside each of the police cruisers. Bauer says this will stop people from doing the “Blackberry prayer” by looking down when reading what is on the Blackberry, so officers will have a “heads up” solution. The tablet will also have touch screen technology.

“It will allow officers to be more situationally aware while you’re in the vehicle.”

One of the applications being worked on is to verbally dictate reports and print out the report which would be a time saver and allow officers more time on the roads patrolling.

“We’ve deployed that with several agencies, and we have a pilot projects and that’s one of the solutions we are looking at here.”

Liaison for the Cobourg Police on the Blackberry Project is Sgt. Jeff Shiels the system will make it easier for the officers to work on the road away from the office.

“When we do our reports we come back to the station and do our data entry by hand. Most people type 30-35 words a minute, but this can allow you dictate at the speed of your voice which is about 160 words a minute.”

Once the officer has gone over his dictation, they can cut and paste it into the report, cutting down on time and improving productivity.

But Shiels says it will not replace dispatch and the technology is not a dispatch device.

“It has no effect on dispatchers other than it may reduce some of the opportunities for us to be to be constantly querying every vehicle with them. It frees them up to spend a little bit more time on the 9-1-1 calls that come in. Sometimes we have to wait while they are dealing with those issues.”

“We’re still going to be dispatched to a call over the radio, telling them we’re on scene, and clearing the scene.

Another added bonus, is the cost.

For the initial start up of the system and devices it is approximately $20,000 for the entire service compared to other police services which use larger laptops costing nearly the same for two police cruisers.

A platoon of five officers will be using the devices for a 90-day period to tweak out any problems.

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Mobile Innovations President and Founder Gary Bauer announced the release of Mobile Innovations’ new MPA Dictation for BB10 and PlayBook today. The secure voice-to-text transcription solution significantly reduces time and effort involved in producing reports done by mobile field staff.

MPA Dictation users speak into their BB10s and then submit the recorded audio of their report to a secure enterprise server. Shortly afterwards a text document is emailed back to the originator for review and verification. After making changes or corrections, the approved report is submitted and automatically sent to a secure enterprise server. All voice and text data is encrypted between the device and the server, so audio and text data is never saved or work on in the cloud, or crosses international boundaries.

Chatham Kent Police Services — an early adopter of many Mobile Innovations solutions for mobile law enforcement with BlackBerry and PlayBook– has been using MPA Dictation since Fall 2012. With implementation of this mobile voice-to-text solution, they have been able to streamline their entire reporting system, massively cutting back on the time and people required to produce more and more accurate reports. Previously, onerous reports like those for the Crown, activity reports, or witness statements that were intended to take a week or so, were taking a month or more to complete. Now they are back on track with timely report completion and submission.

Now widely available, Mobile Innovation’s MPADictation solution eliminates onerous note taking, hand writing or typing, and saves time producing any report involving one hundred words or so. It reduces the number of steps and staff involve and trims time and effort form lengthy tasks like keying in an incident report from handwritten notes at the end of a shift. Transcription from on-the-scene spoken word produces report content that is fresh with no requirement for long-term memory, so it tends to be more accurate and more detailed.

“BlackBerry is still the go-to platform for most police, judicial and government because of its unsurpassed security. No other technology can match the encryption levels for email, audio and text data.” Says Mobile Innovations President and founder Gary Bauer. “We’re working closely with partners who see the benefits we can offer to users who need to absolutely and completely keep all voice and text data encrypted and inside the enterprise, rather than outside on the cloud and exposed to being compromised.”

Aside from feeding more and better intelligence into the enterprise faster, MPA Dication allows individual users who are time constrained and budget restrained, to do more and better with less time and effort, allowing them to focus more on more pressing time-critical tasks. Chatham Kent and other police services report a more satisfied, productive staff when it comes to dealing with reports for management and the Crown.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing productivity with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over fifty clients across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

MPA Dictation takes the pain and worry out of onerous reporting in the field

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In a departure from installing their mobile offices for police vehicles,Mobile Innovations has installed a mobile in-vehicle office with PlayBook for Salter Art and Appraisals — a Windsor-based fine art and antique appraisal company. Appraising estates throughout south western Ontario, the company’s staff encounter extensive local travel and detailed reporting as part of their business routine.

Salter Art and Appraisals works with executors, lawyers and collectors dealing with large personal estates and investment quality pieces. The company must process large volumes of detailed information for each project. Large numbers of individual items are photographed, described, categorized and cataloged. Investment grade antique, art and collectible pieces are documented with copies made of purchase receipts, historical papers and certificates of authenticity for each piece.

Mobile Innovations Mobile PlayBook Office solution simplifies life for Salter staff by putting all of these and more functions onto a single mobile device that weighs only ounces– a PlayBook which snaps into a dock in their car. Appraisers use their PlayBooks anywhere to take tagged photos, make notes, and capture signatures. They also copy and annotate documents, print consignment forms and generate receipts on-site from their cars. The Playbook is always with them as they travel to and from job locations – a fully charged, touch screen display that quick-connects to a rapid charger, on-board printer, document scanner and GPS.

As securely and routinely as they use their office PCs, appraisers use their PlayBooks for access to art and auction databases, and to securely transmit gathered data to head office, in effect letting them carry their offices from their office, to their car, to the estate location and then back to the office.

“ We were always worried about leaving something behind. We lugged our laptops, cameras, data sticks, printers, document scanners, all the cords and power bars and a pile of paper to every estate, then drag it all back. Now the PlayBook is our office.” Explains Davis Gravelsins, Salter Art and Appraisals Managing Director. “The amount of time and grief we save with Mobile Innovations’ mobile PlayBook office in our vehicles is huge. The GPS mapping is great and the all-in $2,000
price is the best of all.”

On the surface the daily routines of policing and appraising paintings couldn’t be more different, but they share a common need for office mobility, explains Gary Bauer, Mobile Innovations President and founder. “Every company with a fleet that does work requiring GPS locations, photos, forms, copies, reports and secure data access will benefit from our MPO or Mobile PlayBook Office, which could just as easily be in a forester’s SUV as in an estate appraiser’s van or an officer’s police cruiser. ”

Known for its work with law enforcement agencies, the company is winning a growing number of contracts from new non-police customers, including companies and government agencies involved in agriculture, energy, finance, forestry and transportation.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb@mobinnoco.com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing productivity with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over fifty clients across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

As a featured BlackBerry Experience Forum exhibitor specializing in mobile law enforcement with PlayBook and BB10, Mobile Innovations founder and President Gary Bauer was pleasantly surprised at the high level of interest from the agriculture and natural resource sector attendees.

Held at Toronto’s Convention Centre, the forum showcased the freshly released BlackBerry 10 platform and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 to enterprise and government with a series of breakout sessions and hands-on demos by select BlackBerry Alliance Partners like Mobile Innovations. Bauer and his CTO Geof Bosworth were on hand at the prestigious event to demo in-vehicle and portable hard case versions of MPA Mobile Office.

Like the event itself, the MPA Mobile Office exhibit attracted the attention of attendees from many different areas of business and industry. Among them were a number of IT professionals from farming and food products companies as well as logging, mining and energy operations. Most attendees were from Toronto and southern Ontario where field workers routinely gather and relay data, record and annotate documents, and create and submit reports.

The Mobile Innovations MPA Mobile Office turns their vehicles into affordable mobile offices. The in-vehicle kit is easily installed by any trained mechanic in any make, model or type of vehicle – from a pickup truck to a tractor to a tree feller – for a fraction of the cost of a ruggedized laptop upfit. It is mounted inside the vehicle with a proprietary PlayBook docking system called MPA SmartDock which features a quick-release dock with full-time rapid charging and micro USB. Including the SmartDock, MPA Mobile Office costs under $2000 depending on configuration and also includes:

•     PlayBook tablet & software
• SmartDock with rapid charge and USB
• SmartHub with BeagleBoard
• Document scanner
• Brother thermal printer
• GPS receiver
• Video-cam

“In many sectors, numerous companies leapfrogged costly laptop solutions by never using them, instead going straight to BlackBerry smartphone devices with voice and data plans. Now they’re looking to leapfrog again by using these plans to run affordable PlayBook mobile computing solutions like ours for their field staff, and never using costly ruggedized laptops.” Explains Bauer. “Wherever mobile field staff need to securely collect, track, send, and access data or do reports, our MPA Mobile Office and enterprise apps make good business sense.”

As well as the in-vehicle version of MPA Mobile Office, a portable version is also available. Weighing 20 pounds and containing all of the components in a protective Pelican case, this configuration is popular with clients who need to move their Mobile Office from one vehicle, or field location to another. It is also frequently used to benchmark larger mobile computing deployments.

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Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing mobile computing with the most advanced mobile data products available for PlayBook and BB10 Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over seventy five clients across Canada, the United States and in the European Union. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with six years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

Recently back from Amsterdam where he delivered a keynote presentation at the inaugural BlackBerry International Police Summit, Mobile Innovations founder and president Gary Bauer announced that his development team had readied eight MPA (Mobile Police Assist) apps for the new BB10 smartphones and PlayBooks. Together with an inexpensive, easy to install PlayBook docking system, (called MPASmartDock) the apps represent a turnkey in-vehicle policing solution that costs eighty percent less than the ruggedized laptop alternative.

The new BB10 and PlayBook apps and the SmartDock will be showcased with the official developer forum event to be held at the Toronto Sheraton February 4 and include solutions for:

• GPS tracking, tagging and CIRT
• Activity and vehicle condition reports
• Record search for vehicle, person and address search
• Eticketing and voice-to-text transcription

While in Amsterdam, Bauer and UK partner Bruce Murchie from Xenium Solutions carried out a soft launch of the MPA apps and docking system to an international police audience, and had the added opportunity to discuss their use in the field during his presentation.

“We talked about the adoption trends for PlayBook and BB10 adoption. We see growing interest by EMS and firefighters. We also see that North American agencies tend to favor tablets mounted in their vehicles, whereas European agencies view tablets as portable, personal kit on the officer’s hip.”

Bauer’s pre-BB10 launch presentation resulted in two in-vehicle pilot programs with new customers and with their turn-key MPASmartDock kits shipping this week.

“We are not the only company to offer in-vehicle tablet up-fits or mobile policing apps, but we are the only people who have it all for PlayBook and BB10 in a one-stop solution, for one to two thousand dollars depending on the configuration.” Says Bauer. “We’re very excited not only about to our appearance at the BB10 launch in Toronto, but even more to offer our apps through the new and dramatically improved BlackBerry World App Store.” Bauer will be meeting with customers and doing demos of the Mobile Innovations MPA apps and the SmartDock at the upcoming Canadian Forum.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing law enforcement with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over fifty agencies across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with seven years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry BB10 and PlayBook devices

Just one week ahead of the January 30th release date for RIM’s BB10 – the first BlackBerry® OS built on QNX — the RIM® UK team is celebrating a first of its own with the world’s inaugural BlackBerry International Police Summit. Traditionally held and hosted domestically in the UK, the event has now been expanded to accommodate the rising tide of international interest from a growing global audience. A select group of delegates and VIPs from law enforcement agencies in Africa, Central and South America, as well as the EU and North America will be attending this year’s exclusive, invitation-only summit.

Gary Bauer and Bruce Murchie — the respective Presidents of Mobile Innovations and Xenium Solutions who are both BlackBerry Alliance Partners as well as business partners — will also be in attendance. Their longstanding client, the South Wales Police, will be delivering a keynote presentation on their use of the Mobile Innovations platform of apps for day-to-day policing with PlayBook and BlackBerry, and they have been invited be on hand to answer questions and provide interested attendees with more detailed information.

Timed to coincide with the International Police Summit and launch of BB10 OS, is the production model release of Mobile Innovations’ MPA SmartDock, the company’s new in-vehicle PlayBook mounting solution.

MPA SmartDock is the physical backbone of Mobile Innovations in-vehicle policing solution and provides full-time charging and a Micro USB port in an air-bag compliant design. Along with a 4G LTE™ BlackBerry PlayBook™ and basic MPA PlayBook apps, the MPASmartDock is available for a price of approximately nine hundred to one thousand dollars US, depending on the quantity and configuration required. Lowering the cost of entry for mobile policing by over 80% versus a standard ruggedized laptop up-fit, the SmartDock installs in any make or model of vehicle with no modifications, wiring or on-board IT, and can be installed within a couple of hours by any trained mechanic.

“Our MPASmartDock program has been strongly supported in the beta testing phase by half a dozen agencies who will be attending this year’s BlackBerry Police Summit.” Explains Mobile Innovations President Gary Bauer. “So we’re really jazzed to be able to offer them production models right here and now, at this landmark event for BB 10 policing.”

As Mobile Innovations ‘Feet on The Street’ in the UK and the go-to client service and sales support specialist for agencies like the New South Wales Police, Xenium Solutions will be leading sales and marketing for the new program throughout the entire European Union.

“It is great for us that our new MPASmartDock and Pelican case solutions are launching here at the BlackBerry International Police Summit. It gives us a chance to demo our new BB10 and PlayBook apps, and to set up benchmark testing for customers here in their own jurisdictions throughout the EU.” Says Xenium’s Murchie.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing law enforcement with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over fifty agencies across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with six years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices

Known for providing advanced solutions for mobile law enforcement, Toronto-based Mobile Innovations Corporation is expanding its market to include government agencies, fleet operators and municipal utilities. Selling more of its PlayBook-based, in-vehicle mounting hardware, peripherals and apps to a broader fleet audience, the veteran BlackBerry Alliance Partner can turn any or truck into a plug-n-play mobile office.

Company management attributes the expanded interest to the low cost of implementation. For a per vehicle cost of approximately two thousand dollars, Mobile Innovations can up-fit any make or model of vehicle with an air-bag safety compliant solution that includes a PlayBook, GPS puck, document scanner, video camera and thermal printer. These peripherals are linked to a USB hub powered by the company’s proprietary SmartDock, which features snap-in connectivity and full-time charging for the in-vehicle PlayBook.

Designed specifically for groups who already use BlackBerry smartphones with cellular carrier data plans, the upfits are far less costly to install than the ruggedized laptop equivalent. They are also significantly less costly to operate in the long run. For example, a typical monthly plan for GPS tagging or location reporting fleet solution typically runs between fifty cents and one dollar per day, whereas the same solution with Mobile Innovations’ mobile office set up are free as part of any BlackBerry data plan.

“With our SmartDock-based mobile office, the productivity gains are as big as the savings on installation of our solution versus laptop upfits,” explains company founder and President Gary Bauer. “Not only can you send attachments, you can scan, annotate and print documents, send Geo-tagged images and video clips and pinpoint your GPS position on a map.”

As a complement to Mobile Innovations’ mobile office on wheels solution, the company also offers a mobile office in a carrying case called MPACasemaker. Substituting a Pelican hard-case for the SmartDock, this version is well-suited to users on a budget who want to move their mobile office from one vehicle to another, or prefer a non-permanent setup they can carry from the vehicle into the field.

Pointing out that most of the new non-law enforcement interest is coming from EMS, fire and government agencies, Bauer attributes the quickly widening interest in his company’s solution to word-of-mouth. “Police officers work closely with fire and EMS, and government departments interact on a regular basis. So it’s not hard to imagine that the wow factor from our police station on wheels translates into interest in a government official’s or utility supervisor’s office on wheels,” says Bauer.

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For more information, please contact:
Gary Bauer – President
Mobile: 1-416-889-9997
Email: garyb(at)mobinnoco(dot)com

Mobile Innovations is a privately held company dedicated to enhancing law enforcement with the most advanced mobile data products available. Based in Niagara Falls, Canada, Mobile Innovations also has operations in Toronto and works with over fifty agencies across Canada, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Mobile Innovations is a member of the BlackBerry® Alliance Program with six years of service developing and deploying advanced mobile solutions for BlackBerry devices.

Software Enterprises Development Director Gil Oxley announced the release today of his company’s new Global Rostering System (GRS) Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBooks. The company’s first app for mobile devices is being launched just in time for Software Enterprises’ 10th Annual User Group Conference, to be held on November 27th and 28th at Birmingham’s Conference centre next week. Recognized as a world leader in staff scheduling software for large enterprises with complex rostering issues, and Emergency Services where accuracy and reliability are critical, Software Enterprises has engaged Mobile Innovations to develop the mobile version of their powerful workforce management tool.

With GRS Mobile, management and staff can see current and future shifts, duties and assignments, requests for overtime or leave, and amend and update skills and personal details, regardless of their location. Operating with a secure login, administrators can control what each user sees on their devices, allowing for differing levels of privileges to be set in accordance with each user’s seniority or role.

GRS and its predecessor ProMis have been the staff scheduling tools of choice for many ambulance and police services in the UK for over a decade. Seeing the widespread adoption of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBooks by many of their users, GRS recognized the need to develop a mobile version of its powerful workforce scheduling system.

“Many of our customers run on the Blackberry platform for its security, and a few were working with a Canadian company called Mobile Innovations for their critical mobile apps.” explains Gil Oxley. “So we thought they must have a good understanding of the mobile app business, and we got in touch. The rest is history and now together we’re launching GRS Mobile, and introducing it at our annual user conference.”

Gary Bauer, President and founder of Toronto-based Mobile Innovations is pleased with the new opportunity to work on a project with reach outside the boundaries of law enforcement. “ It’s great that our development team can do work on a Law Enforcement initiated project, that ends up having a a big reach in the EMS area, where there is overlap on some business processes around rostering and annual leave.” He Says.

GRS Mobile will is currently available to all existing GRS and GRS Web users, and will be offered as part of the GRS Suite for all new customers.