About Technology How it works? The pen The form The Mobile & Router The server Text/handwriting Recognition The editor and form viewer The process

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Outline

How it works?

The Pen – Technical Data

Uses ink

Functions just like a normal pen

Contains a digital camera

Takes pictures of pen strokes only

Small data files

Secure data transfer

Bluetooth or USB

The Paper

When using a digital pen, a tiny camera in the pen registers the pen'smovement across the grid surface on the paper and stores it as series of mapcoordinates. These coordinates correspond to the exact location of the pageyou’re writing on.

How does it register the coordinates?The paper consists of an ordinary paper of any size providedwith a dot pattern, invisible to the eye that is either pre-printedor printed on a laser printer.

The displacement of the dots, 0.1 millimeters in size, from the relative position

enables them to be programmed to tell the pen the exact location on the page

The Paper

1.8 mm

1.8

mm

• Small dots printed on ordinary paper• Images and text can be overprinted• Visually a slight grey tone on the paper• Non complex printing process –

Lazer/Litho/Digital• The pixels have an addressing system .

The Enablement of the Form

Your Form + S.P.T Dot Pattern = Enabled Form

Form Printing and Completion

Form Printing

The Forms are printed on standard office laser printers and can be Digital or Litho printed by printing companies. The client receives a post-script file after their form has been enabled and can print on demand or in bulk by an S.P. T authorised printer.

Form Completion

The user fills out the form with the digital pen that contains normal ink (available in 7 different colours with refill ink cartridges). As the user writes, a tiny camera in the digital pen registers its movement across the surface of the paper printed with the dot pattern enabled with S.P.T functionality. This creates a digital image of exactly what is written with each pen stroke, time and date-stamped.

Communication Methods

• Docking Station (network/local) – internet

• Bluetooth Access point – network/internet

• Mobile phone – bluetooth/GPRS/internet

The Mobile Router

X-Station – Hosted Solution

•Software Development KIT

• Vision Objects

• Hand Writing Recognition

Software

• Pen Lookup service

• Database

• Rules and response tools

• SMS Push technology

• Viewer & Editors

• BI and Reporting tools

Hand Writing Character Recognition (HCR)

Monogram – word could be fire or five

Bigram – 2-word group could be on fire or on five

Trigram – 3-word group could be on fire but never on five

Hand Writing Character Recognition (HCR)

•Handwriting recognition software enables computer systems to convert characters, words and more generally text written by hand into digital characters or digital text.

•S.P.T which is the world leader in this field. 25 language packs are currently available.

•The result is a set of points ordered by time, speed, accelerations, time order of strokes, writer ID.

• Hand Writing Recognition (HWR) better than Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• Teach the application to learn the users handwriting

• Accuracy improved by using lexicons

User names Place names Street names

• Automatic Data verification

ID Numbers Fieldworker Name

Recap Process

Aarto : Solution at a Glance

Technology Added Value

•Form Viewer/editor• Security• Scanning barcodes• GPS & Sketch to GIS• Mobile verification• Taking photographs• Automated SMS responses/verification• Automated call backs• Advanced Lexicons• Hand Writing Recognition Software (HWR)• Data streaming – email, sms, xml, spreadsheet• Existing System integration• Data Mining and Business Intelligence

Mobile checks & SMS Coms

Job completion confirmation

All in 10 seconds

Security

• The digital pen communicates using end-to-end cryptography. A message written with the pen is encrypted within the pen before transmission. The message remains secret from the very moment it leaves the pen. It uses 128/256-bit symmetric key encryption

• Each digital pen has a unique ID. All digital pens that are used by S.P.T.(vision objects) are registered to our servers and can only communicate with that “trusted” server. All information captured from both USB & Bluetooth pens is encrypted by the pen before uploading. Every pen contains a real time clock making fraudulent form completion easily detectable. Our S.P.T (vision objects) servers retain all pen stroke files, original images and XML upload files.

Security Benefit • High security – 128/256 bit encryption • No more missing paperwork - instant

transactions • Immediate proof of delivery

/acceptance • Signature verification • Clear audit trail - time stamped log of

pen user, time started, finished and signed

• Regular Backup - ensures reporting and compliance where necessary

• Secure web gateway • Less chance of being stolen, easy to

replace than PDA or laptop • No abuse of this technology • No time wasted and impossible for

any fraudulent activities to take place

Benefits

•Zero change to current work practice•Easy to use with little or no training required•Limited IT support needed•No issues with batteries •Increased security for the company & the user•Paper copy available for customer•High speed, resilient solution - Reduce processing time•Low cost, fast return on investment•Digital secure image sent to head office within seconds.•Image decoded and converted to DATA and inserted into database – “no need to capture”– Hard “Legal” copy will still follow.•Eliminates capture, QA and related errors•Field checks, credit verification can be done while consultant still with client. Either on mobile or system•Digital captured data can be instantaneously sent to multiple sources in multiple formats, including email as well as integrated into existing systems.•Cheap and cost effective as most already have mobile phones, therefore only pens to be purchased.•Once off setup and then transaction or monthly costs can be chosen.

About us

• Launched in 2007

• Formed by combining Data World & Destiny SA pen divisions

• 4 years experience in Digital pen and Paper

• Clients in SA, 15 SADC countries and UK

• Africa – 35 + clients / 1500 + pens / 10,000 + transactions per day / 110 + live applications

• UK – 300 + clients / 10,000 + pens / 15,000 + transactions per day / 600 + live applications

S.P.T is the world’s FASTEST, most ADVANCED forms-processing SOLUTION, using

highly EVOLVED DIGITAL PEN AND PAPER technology Other issues

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