With a market share of nearly 50%, in two short years the Android platform offered by Google has become the market leader in mobile devices ahead of the Apple iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry. Check out our video showing the functionalities of mobile and location-based reporting offered by mobile token on Android smartphones and tablets…

Today, nearly a one out of every two smartphones commercially sold is an Android smartphone. The market share of smartphones using Google’s Android has in fact gone from 17.2% to 43.4% in only one year. Behind this indisputable infatuation you find most of the mobile equipment providers on the market: Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola (just acquired by Google), Sony-Ericsson etc.

Android is an operating system (OS) for smartphones and tablets, just as is iOS (iPhone and Apple iPad), Symbian (Nokia), Windows Phone (Microsoft) or BlackBerry (RIM). The big difference is its openness. Android is open source and free for smartphones manufacturers with Google basing its revenue on tight integration, within the terminal, and on its tools, paid by advertising (search, gmail, googlemaps, youtube etc.). This then allows manufacturers to offer models that are often cheaper than their cousin, the Apple.

Functionally, Android is very close to the iPhone, which also explains its runaway success. Globally, there’s a real war of titans on between Google and Apple about smartphone leadership, with Microsoft, which signed a strategic agreement with Nokia (first devices expected in 2012), and BlackBerry, which is now adrift, looking on as outsiders. HP, which bought the historic leader Palm last year, just threw in the towel by announcing the cessation of production and the redundancy of part of its staff …

The success of a smartphone OS depends to a great extent on the application library (the famous “mobile apps”) available to its users. The Google Android Market lacks the depth of the Apple App Store, but the popularity of Android developers is such that it shouldn’t be long before it catches up.

For the professional market, Android offers the ability to deploy a business application based on a standard OS and featuring a wide range of mobile devices: smartphones and tablets with different screen sizes, with or without keyboard, entry-level or premium models etc. Compared to the single model offered by Apple, this is obviously a huge difference…

mobile token is obviously compatible with Android. Our professional reporting application (technicians, salespeople etc.) now offers the functionality of global positioning of staff, service recording, taking photos and storecheck on Android smartphones. And this is just the beginning. There is also a dedicated version for Android tablets, with ergonomics and a layout optimized for the larger screen. Watch the following video to give you an idea of what Android can do for your business.

Once again, mobile token innovates and guarantees you a wide array of mobile devices for the deployment of your mobile reporting applications!

Deploying a solution for automating service reports, and geopositioning its technicians for less than 150 euro spent per person. Challenge met!

The company La Chaleur et L’Eau is modernising for less by deploying the mobile token solution!

La Chaleur et L’eau is an SME of 8 people active in the heating and plumbing sector. The management wanted to maximise the field operations of the company to better monitor them and to provide better service to its customers, and did so by limiting its investment. Initially, the hope was to test our “traditional” global positioning solution based on a GPS beacon installed in the technician’s vehicle. mobile token offered to test the alternative offered by the smartphone-based GPS in parallel, offering the advantage of allowing the use of the tool integrated with service reporting, and taking photos.

After testing the two approaches, the choice went to the mobile application. “It really has so many more benefits and we couldn’t invest in a tracking box. On the other hand, there is the cost of the smartphone (150 euro). But with taking pictures, we have so many more options for reporting our operations. I can even help my own technicians out!”

With the GPS Tracking plugin, La Chaleur et L’Eau has access to trips taken (km, speed etc.) just as if they were equipped with a GPS beacon in the vehicle.

“And again, no discussion with the workers regarding their private lives. When the day is over, they are “off the radar”. Servie hours are recorded automatically and they tally the hours worked at the customer’s. Finally, the worker no longer has to waste time filling out work orders or delivery sheets! He can focus on his work and make the best use of his time”.

To sum up, the field staff uses a smartphone and the aidoo mobile application. In the morning, everyone starts his day by opening the application and starting his workday. The worker instantly receives his schedule. Once at the customer’s, the technician starts his work and takes several photos of his work. When he’s done, he closes the job with an appropriate status (finished, interrupted, to be reschedules etc.) and checks his smartphone to get the next job to go out on. At the end of the day, his workday is done.

The boss has a real-time view of the location of the technician and the progress of his work via his web browser.

When asked whether the staff would come to use the application, he replied: “It’s true that we had to follow his staff closely in the first few weeks of using the application. It is really simple to use, but people sometimes forget to start or complete their service. Being able to correct the data on the web interface helps me a lot in getting good service hours and in preparing my billing. What’s more, the client doesn’t argue any more when I show him the hours tally on the GPS.

Now they really get it and it’s became a great work tool for them.”

To allow all companies regardless of their size and budget, to take advantage of mobile technology, to increase the control over their field activity, and to automate its reporting. These are the keywords of the new offer presented at our booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the rendez-vous for professionals in the mobile industry, between 14 and 17 February 2011.

With more than 50.000 participants from over 200 countries, the GSMA Mobile World Congress is the main event for all professionals in the mobile industry. Manufacturers, operators, software vendors, service providers, more than 55,000 m2 will be occupied by more than 1,300 exhibitors.

The three basic modules of the Mobile Token solution have been deployed, phased manner. Initially, geolocation ( track and trace) of their fleet of vehicles to optimize their use, and ensure a certain level of control. Then the planning and dispatching tool for the services (repair, maintenance of elevators) to the technicians, equipped with a simple mobile phone (Nokia) and Aidoo for the reception of the missions and encoding of the working hours.


After a few hours of training, Liftinc was fully operational with the 100% packaged Mobile Token solution!

Leader Price is a single brand that respects the diversity of cultures and the difference in values with offers tailored to the needs of customer. Providing quality products that meet the daily needs at the most competitive prices throughout the year is their motto. No wonder they decided to automate and industrialize regular quality audits made in a store. Produced by an independent team, they allow management to Leader Price , and store managers, to have complete reports , illustrated with numerous pictures. All in real time without human intervention!

Throughout the year, there are dozens of criteria which are monitored systematically in supermarkets of the group, from the reception in the parking lot, until cash registration, through the various departments. .. The collection of this data is done with the aidoo mobile application from Mobile Token, deployed on a BlackBerry 8520 device. In case of quality problem in the shop, a picture is taken and sent to Leader Price who immediately notifies the store manager.

A good example of mobile deployment at the service of customers!