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Security, Functionality and Innovation
Denise Cole, Business & Marketing Director, details how LapSafe® Products provide sustainable solutions to our Schools of the Present and Future
Published:  10 July, 2008

We are currently seeing the largest ever capital investment in our schools throughout England via the £45 billion ‘Building Schools for the Future' (BSF) project and the £7 billion ‘Primary Capital Programme' (PCP). Ten percent of this investment will be allocated to the provision of ICT facilities. It is therefore essential when planning this provision that security is a key priority!

Unfortunately our schools and colleges are a prime target for both organised and opportunist theft. They must therefore invest in secure but sustainable solutions to ensure their expensive ICT equipment is protected and disruption to learning minimised.

Safe and Secure

The LapSafe® range of cabinets incorporates secure storage, safe recharging and network management for laptops, PDAs and Ultra Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs).

Available either mobile with the MentorTM enabling schools to share resources between classrooms saving the need for dedicated IT suites, or static as the AmbassadorTM, providing static security and individual secure compartments for each laptop.

School, colleges and universities throughout the UK and Europe have come to place their trust in the LapSafe® cabinet range.  Their robust build quality serves as an extremely effective deterrent against theft, incorporating a fully welded steel chassis, twin high security locks, anti-jemmy strips and 2mm thick doors reinforced to 4mm. All cabinets are delivered ready assembled and meet or exceed British Safety Standards.

Unique Product

What makes the LapSafe® range so unique is the patented modular construction inside each cabinet. This allows the user to select the functionality that meets their needs today, safe in the knowledge that the modules can be upgraded as their needs change and technology advances. This provides a sustainable solution that extends the life of the unit and prolongs the value of the investment.

Safe Recharging for Students

Our cabinets provide safe recharging for up to 40 laptops depending upon model. All laptops recharge simultaneously in the fastest possible time, with two charging methods. ChargeLineTM uses the laptops own AC Adaptor, providing a cost effective safe solution, ensuring no power goes to the sockets until the doors are closed. SmartLineTM incorporates our ‘Ultra-Safe Smart' charging technology, requiring no AC adaptor, the user simply plugs the small power connector directly into the laptops power socket and the intelligent power management does the rest.

Unlike any other recharging trolley, the LapSafe® cabinet has a built in fully automated temperature control system fitted standard and stores and recharges laptops in the horizontal position to ensure maximum life of the batteries.

Data Transfer

ICT technicians will be familiar with the headache caused from trying to transfer data or upgrade multiple laptops.  Well there is a cure, schools can now save time by simultaneously transferring data to all the laptops stored in a cabinets using the LapSafe® Data Transfer Module (DTM).  Just think of the time this will save! What's more, existing LapSafe® customers can upgrade to incorporate DTM.

Innovations in M-learning Support

With more mobile devices being made available to students, M-learning is fast becoming the way forward in Education with the use of mobile technology greatly enhancing the learners experience. Mobile Phones, PDAs and Ultra Mobile Computers (UMPCs) can be blended to engage and motivate learners, anytime and anywhere.

LapSafe® Products have developed a range of modules for their MentorTM and AmbassadorTM cabinets that provide safe power management and recharging support for all these mobile units. No other cabinet manufacturer offers such flexibility!

We have also gone that one step further with our latest innovation, the QchargerTM.  This intelligent box recharges and manages the power of external batteries outside the device whether UMPCs or laptop, maximising power management to aid M-Learning 24/7.  The QchargerTM can also recalibrate UMPC or laptop batteries and fits neatly into our cabinets or suitable for standalone.

LapSafe® Products, 3 Wakes Hall Business Centre, Wakes Colne, Colchester, Essex, CO6 2DY

Tel: 0845 230 1010  

sales@lapsafe.com

http://www.lapsafe.com/




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