“Certainly when we look at the feature content of this system, one of the things our employees like the best is it has a Wireless Charging feature. A wireless charging feature means that basically, from the time we are open to the time we are closed we never have to deal with having to change batteries, charge batteries, or deal with that type from an operational point of view. That gives us huge manpower advantages, huge throughput advantages, and we have virtually no downtime on the equipment.

The other thing that gives an advantage is that the equipment is not being touched technically throughout its normal operational day. And that means we are not dealing with harness failures, mechanical failures, or things like that. It gives us a huge quality advantage. We basically run 100% uptime, all the time, 7 days a week. It puts us in a really good competitive position.

Certainly, the wireless charging looks simple on the surface. But it is technically a very sophisticated system. Basically when we put the vests on the charging racks, or on the standard resting racks they are charged through an RF System that is safe and very functional and it maintains the vest at 100% charge virtually all of the time. The other thing it does is it manages battery power and battery life very well. So that with the new Lithium Ion type technologies and the batteries available now we can have extended life and performance that can’t be attained when we are having to deplete the charge on the batteries. So this gives us another huge operational advantage and puts us in a technically superior position.” – Jeff Wainwright, Paradise Park, Novi, MI