Custom Made Tablets: Tough from the inside out!

Custom-made tablets have the advantage of being tough from the inside out because the designs and features will have been specially manufactured for particular users, some of which involve the most demanding needs in the harshest environments. Additionally, custom-made tablets – such as custom medical tablets – must meet both brand manufacturer and end-user standards.

The qualities of tough, durable customizable tablets and custom rugged tablets will depend on the industry and the user. It is most likely that a primary feature such tablets will require will be a shock-proof housing that will keep the tablet functioning despite drops and heavy bumps. Such durability must also apply to a shatter-proof touch screen and display assembly. What’s more, rugged tablets must be impervious to environments that are commonly found in warehousing, logistics, manufacturing, and transportation. This means the tablet will need to be resistant to dusty and even moist and wet environments with extreme hot and cold temperatures.

Custom made tablets must meet the stringent standards of Original Equipment Manufacturers that produce the tablets and the rigorous needs of the user. This can include demanding applications in fields of medicine, law enforcement and security, military, and many industrial applications.

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Lightweight and Portable, Custom Linux and Android Tablets can replace a laptop in many applications

The lightweight and portable nature of Linux and Android tablets make them ideal candidates to replace laptop computers in many mobile applications, particularly when the tablets can be customized to suit the needs of users.

Android and Linux Tablets are smaller and easy to carry and are perfect for cloud computing applications and Internet-based information sourcing and processing. In many instances, the benefits of using an Linux or Android Tablet are clear– particularly if customized or custom-made – to replace your laptop.

The reasons why Linux and Android Tablets are so ideal for replacing laptops are numerous. To begin, Tablets offer greater mobility due to the thin and lightweight nature of the devices. Linux and Android Tablets may lack some of the hardware and peripheral ports of a PC or laptop, but these potential shortcomings are easily overcome with an external wired or wireless device, software modifications, and customization. It simply depends on what you require your Tablet to do and what environment it will be exposed to.

Original Equipment Manufacturers of handheld portable devices and those seeking state-of-the-art custom designs of embedded circuitry boards, tablets, and rugged tablets, and custom software and engineering services will benefit from the industry leading expertise of InHand Electronics, Inc. InHand Electronics serves a broad range of industries, including utilities and transportation, industrial, Internet of things, aviation, medical, and military and defense.

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InHand Electronics, Inc.
30 West Gude Dr. Suite 550
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone No. : 240-558-2014
Web :www.inhand.com
Email : rfeldman@inhand.com

Portable Device Design – Custom-made for Military Grade

The ruggedness of common tablets and smartphones, such as those manufactured by Samsung and Apple, has improved in recent years. The addition of rubber overmold accessories enhances drop survival and the use of connectors and sealing techniques enhance water resistance. However, these devices, even within rugged outer casings, cannot meet the more demanding set of standards required by tablets and other portable devices for the military.

Military devices are used for a wide variety of applications. These include:

• UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), UGV (unmanned ground vehicle), and UUV (unmanned underwater vehicle)) deployment and control
• Real time personnel, vehicle, and equipment tracking and deployment
• GIS (geographic information system) mapping
• Mission planning command and control
• Real time situational awareness and analysis, including friendly and enemy force tracking
• Security and military police operations
• Field logistics and dispatch

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InHand Electronics, Inc.
30 West Gude Dr. Suite 550
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone No. : 240-558-2014
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Email : rfeldman@inhand.com

Key Differences That Make Medical Grade Tablets Different From Consumer Tablets

Medical grade tablets have a number of unique features and use cases as compared with consumer grade tablets. This often requires a custom tablet design that tightly integrates these features and assures high reliability, security, and privacy. Consumer grade tablets usually cannot meet FDA, HIPAA, and other regulatory requirements simply through software changes and a more rugged outer package.

When used for patient monitoring and care, medical tablets and other handheld medical devices must meet FDA-mandated requirements for safety, privacy, and reliability. This extra diligence ensures trust that the medical device will not harm the patient, securely stores data, and in general performs its functions as intended.

Here are some ways in which medical grade tablets differ from consumer grade tablets. Medical grade tablets and other medical devices:

• Utilize high quality components, often manufactured in ISO 13485 certified facilities, which enable the consistent and quality construction, and supply chain traceability, required of medical devices.

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InHand Electronics, Inc.
30 West Gude Dr. Suite 550
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone No. : 240-558-2014
Web :www.inhand.com
Email : rfeldman@inhand.com

The Biggest Challenges Faced In Planning Handheld Device Design

Portable handheld electronic devices such as computer tablets and smartphones continue to offer amazing features incorporated from mass-produced electronic technology. Sometimes, these commercial off the shelf (COTS) devices do not quite meet user needs. Perhaps they do not withstand tough environmental conditions, require a custom interface, or don’t meet regulatory requirements driven by specific application use cases. A custom designed handheld device may be necessary for these situations. There are major challenges faced when planning a custom handheld device design.

Portable handheld computing devices have a myriad of uses across many industries. Examples include medicine, military, security, law enforcement, field operations, instrumentation and measurement, entertainment, inventory management, warehousing, logistics, shipping, transportation, and retail. These applications demand feature-rich handheld electronic devices, preferably with the familiar user interfaces of analogous consumer devices, but also meet stringent use case requirements as well as budget constraints. It is a challenge to design and produce cost-effective custom handheld devices that meet operational needs.

Handheld device design is an area of excellence at InHand Electronics, an industry leader that specializes in the design of low-power embedded circuitry, systems, and software for original equipment manufacturers of handheld, Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless devices. Contact InHand for an evaluation of your custom handheld device concept.

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InHand Electronics, Inc.
30 West Gude Dr. Suite 550
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone No. : 240-558-2014
Web :www.inhand.com
Email : rfeldman@inhand.com

Modified COTS and the Super Bowl

I came on board to InHand Electronics just over a week ago and have spent a lot of my time familiarizing myself with the products and services we offer. Maybe it’s because the Super Bowl is this weekend or football is just always on my mind, but as I learned about InHand’s custom products I immediately thought of a story I read about the NFL. For years the NFL printed out pictures on the sidelines so players and coaches could review them and make game time adjustments. Over the past two seasons, someone realized we are in the 21st century and decided to introduce tablets to this process.

Microsoft paid the NFL $400 million to be the provider of these sideline tablets with the hope of establishing a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties. Microsoft gets exposure to the millions of fans who watch football every Sunday and the NFL has a more advanced way of making in game adjustments, plus an additional $400 million their pocket. However, since Microsoft’s tablets hit NFL sidelines there has been a wave of bad press about them. Most notably, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick went on a rant about the tablets during a post game press conference which included him saying “I’m done with tablets. They’re just too undependable for me.” While Microsoft has publicly defended their tablets and NFL higher ups have done the same, I imagine there have been some tense phone conversations between the two about this. As a league that prides itself on being the best, having a high profile coach rant about bad tablets is not a good look for the NFL.

What could the NFL have done differently to ensure the tablets met their needs? This brings me back to the products and services we offer here at InHand Electronics. We specialize in custom electronics that are specifically designed to meet our customer’s requirements. Microsoft took an existing product they wanted to get exposure to and assumed it could meet the NFL’s needs. We start with a known good product and modify it to meet the specific requirements our customers demand. Our Modified-COTS (Modified Consumer off the shelf) approach reduces risk and time to market for our customers. InHand’s Hydra tablet would have been modified to meet the requirements outlined by the NFL and its coaches, including perhaps creating an NFL branded tablet for them to sell.

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550Rockville, MD 20850
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Security: Forethought and Planning Avoids Problems

My wife and I were watching the news the other night and a story came up about the latest telemarketing scam that is making its way around the country. With this new scam, you answer your phone and a person who sounds like a telemarketer asks, “Can you hear me OK?” Most people instinctively say “yes” because they can in fact hear them OK. This is a pretty reasonable reaction, but it is also a predictable one. The scammer records your “yes,” then hangs up the phone and uses the recording to make over-the-phone purchases with a credit card or account associated with your name. When you go to contest the charges the credit card company will pull up the purchase, play the recording and ask “Is this your voice?” at which point you’re trapped.

As I watched this story I was reminded of a beach vacation my family took when I was in high school. Every day we walked down to the beach, but always left the house unlocked because everyone made their way back to the house at different times. One afternoon, we returned to the beach house to find my dad’s wallet and mom’s purse had been stolen. My dad called the credit card company and sure enough someone had already started using their credit cards in nearby towns. Fortunately for us we had family friends staying with us who were able to spot us enough money to finish out the vacation. All in all, the material loss for our family was pretty negligible. However, the feeling of being violated stuck with our family (especially my mom) for a while. Every year since we have diligently locked our doors at the beach and remind ourselves of that year whenever the logistics of passing around a key seems not worth it.

When it comes to security a lot of us are reactive instead of proactive. How many more years would we have left our doors unlocked had we not been robbed that one time? Security used to be an afterthought for us at the beach, and still is an afterthought for many of us in different aspects of our lives. The scam on the news highlighted that there are now substantially more ways for someone to take from you. In a time when our cell phones and tablets feel like extensions of ourselves, it is scary to think that someone can sit on the other side of the world and violate your personal space. Even scarier, is the damage could be more than just a feeling of being violate and actually be quite substantial.

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30 West Gude Dr. Suite 550
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone No. : 240-558-2014
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Email : rfeldman@inhand.com