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Margate, Kent, 13th June 2007 -– Isotrak Ltd, of Milton Keynes, is a market leader when it comes to providing transport management systems for many of the UK’s leading logistics organisations, and are highly acclaimed for helping their customers improve their transport efficiency and service performance. One such customer, a well known supermarket chain, approached Isotrak for a comprehensive logistics solution and when it came to delivering the perfect system, AV Toolbox was there to help.

Isotrak supply satellite tracking and driver communications capabilities to the company’s vehicles and provide this information in-store using a thin–client terminal and a large display monitor. A custom-built cabinet containing the terminal equipment receives an Estimated Time of Arrival calculated from tracking information and sends this to a monitor that can be easily seen and read by store staff. Phil Moran of Isotrak explains further, "the system provides an airport style arrivals board so that the back-of-store team know when deliveries are due to arrive and can make certain that the back door is open and that they are on-hand ready to take the delivery"

This prompt action by staff ensures that the distribution centres can make much better use of their vehicles, as they are spending less time sitting still and more time out on the road making deliveries.

Giving vital information such as forecasts of vehicle arrivals, it is necessary for the ETA screen to be clearly visible and at a place highly populated by most staff, such as near staff rooms. This flexibility of screen positioning in relation to the housing of the terminal is made significantly easier using AV Toolbox' Cat.5 products.

The 1T-VGA-CAT-XL from AV Toolbox, a division of TV One, enables Isotrak to send the video signal being output by the terminal over large distances, without loss or degradation of signal, before being input into the display screen. This, of course, is extremely useful when the terminal and the screen are located at opposite ends of a supermarket and for Phil Moran there was no contest when it came to choosing this product. "TV One has a good reputation and because of their background in this area they were a safe bet for a reliable and cost-effective product."

For further information on the products available from AV Toolbox, please visit our online store, www.avtoolbox.co.uk alternatively you can email sales.europe@avtoolbox.com

Contact: Simon Mattingly, AV Toolbox (a division of TV One Ltd), Unit V, Continental Approach, Westwood Industrial Estate, Margate, Kent CT9 4JG, United Kingdom, T: + 44 (0)1843873307 F: + 44 (0)1843 873312 Email: simon.mattingly@avtooolbox.com