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In our current environment, we are finding that districts are moving towards students residing in classroom cohorts and having teachers move from classroom to classroom. Bretford's many different mobile AV options create an optimized offering specifically for this case.
Industry Overview
Featured Solutions:

Learn more about the TechGuard Connect Charging Locker and other popular products by visiting our product pages.

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

  • Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts

  • Explorer™ Display Cart

Keeps Student Devices Charged, Organized, and Managed with Bretford CUBE® Carts

Organizing the return of hundreds of student mobile devices is not easy, but the CUBE Transport Cart provided a safe, effective way to collect, organize and manage the return of devices after the learn- from-home order this past spring.

Health Care
Empowering the digital healthcare eco-system

With solutions for simple store and charge to leading edge techniques that support work-flow management and device provisioning and management, Bretford solutions bridge the gap between mobile use and mobile management.

Mobile devices are penetrating the healthcare industry in profound ways. For hospitals, mobile devices represent a significant portion of their digital investment. Of the $200 billion spent on digital healthcare in 2020, 46% was on mobile solutions. Despite massive investments in mobile technology, hospitals still face operational barriers that disrupt and impede their mobile growth. Bretford steps in to help bridge the gap between mobile use and mobile management. With solutions for simple store and charge to leading edge techniques that support work-flow management and device provisioning and management.
Industry Overview
Featured Solutions:

Learn more about the PowerSync Pro and other popular products by visiting our product pages.

  • PowerSync Pro Station® for Apple Devices

  • PowerSync Pro™ Gen. 2 Smart Hubs

Sample Use Case: Health Care

Scenario

A hospital has multiple staff stations across campus, each with its own set of shared mobile devices for medical staff. Devices need to be charged, synced and provisioned shift to shift so they’re ready for the next team member.

Challenge

With limited resources and staff stations spread out, it’s impossible for the IT department to physically process each station’s mobile devices to ensure they are synced and provisioned daily. When a sync-and-provision workflow system is deployed, it should run with little to no assistance from the IT staff.

The workflow system should also be easy for medical staff to use and understand so they focus on patient care instead of troubleshooting technology.

Solution

PowerSync Pro Trays provide a framework for a hands-free IT solution for mobile devices to be stored, charged and synced with integrated support for Apple Provisioning Utility (APU). With the ability to mount a Mac mini within the tray, the PowerSync Pro Tray becomes a self-contained provisioning appliance when running Apple Configurator or APU.

By deploying PowerSync Pro Trays in conjunction with APU, mobile devices are refreshed back to their original state with many low-level issues automatically repaired, reducing the number of IT tickets and lowering support costs.

Higher Education
Keeping mobility powered, instructors prepared, and students engaged

At Bretford, we are helping retailers experience the raw value of mobile transformation with safe, efficient, secure, and intelligent charging solutions that support todays mobile technologies.

With 70 years of innovation, Bretford is the leading provider of charging solutions that secure, manage and power mobile devices in higher education environments. Our solutions support students, faculty, and staff by increasing mobility and learning effectiveness while staying charged and connected.

Our tradition of powering technology in learning environments dates back more than 50 years. Bretford pioneered the mobile computer cart and was the first to launch an intelligent power managing cart that conserves laptop battery life. Our forethought and creativity also led to the first comprehensive line of audio-visual accessories. As the use of mobile technology has evolved, so has Bretford. We continue to lead with innovative solutions that support the educational mobile technology needs of today.
About Higher Education
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  • Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts

  • Explorer™ Display Cart

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

  • Link Carts

  • Charging Carts

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Bretford Use Cases for Higher Education

Take a look at all the ways Bretford device storage and power solutons can be used in higher education settings for greater operational efficiency, security, and preservation of technology investments across departments and campuses.

Computer Labs

Application

In Computer and Science Labs, there often is a need for specialized mobile devices outside of standard laptops.

Challenge

Whether it be an iOS device like an iPad or iPhone or a rugged/heavy-duty laptop, these specialized devices need to be stored, charged, managed and secured.

Solution

Bretford’s Link and PowerSync charging carts can facilitate device management via Ethernet connection or Apple Configuration tools, allowing IT to manage multiple devices while connected to a Bretford solution.

By deploying PowerSync Pro Trays in conjunction with APU, mobile devices are refreshed back to their original state with many low-level issues automatically repaired, reducing the number of IT tickets and lowering support costs.

Logistics
Helping logistics leaders maximize their competitive agility

Better enable customers to navigate logistical challenges with less friction by promoting Bretford storage and power solutions for businesses logistics and the logistics industry as a whole.

The very real, headlights of Industry 4.0 are on the horizon. Suddenly, digital evolution is not a competitive advantage; it is a logistics necessity. Predictive shipping, share capacity, dynamic container optimization and identification, complex route simulations, IoT, AI, machine learning, and mobile deployment are all shaking decade-old foundations. 

By 2022, the logistics industry will spend over $2.5 billion on technology. But how do you enable this technology? How do you keep a new swarm of digital devices charged, shift-after-shift?

At Bretford, we built world-class charging solutions to help you tackle the challenges of Industry 4.0. Our sleek, modular, and intelligent charging solutions are constructed with USA-sourced steel and packed with industry-leading security features. You need the power and capacity to keep your critical, digitally enabling devices charged around-the-clock. We turn one power outlet into a buffet of charging. Do not spend millions on emerging innovations without enabling the physical infrastructure to support those investments. Bretford can help.
Industry Overview
Featured Solutions:

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  • Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts

  • Explorer™ Display Cart

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

  • Charging Stations & Smart Hubs

  • Charging Carts

Manufacturing
Fueling growth through superior mobile management

Bretford delivers solutions to Power, Manage and Secure professionals in the manufacturing and industrial markets.

Growing, expanding, and competing in the global supply chain in today’s digitally driven landscape is challenging. From IoT to big data, disruptive technology is converging into the manufacturing industry at an increasing rate.

Sitting at the helm of this digital transformation are mobile devices. They intercept data, provide easy-to-use interfaces for IoT management and work-flow functions. But to leverage mobile devices as transformative hardware, they need to be charged, secured, managed and action ready.

At Bretford, we use tech-forward innovations to help you streamline mobile device management, deployment, and utilization. From critical inventory scanners to handheld mobile work pads, we keep your technology charged so you can focus on what matters most – using that technology to grow your business.
Industry Overview
Featured Solutions:

Learn more about these and other popular products by visiting our product pages.

  • Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts

  • Explorer™ Display Cart

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

  • Charging Stations & Smart Hubs

  • Charging Carts

Sample Use Case: Manufacturing & Warehouse Facilities

Application

Many manufacturing companies are putting technology in the hands of their staff to automate manual data capture points in order to increase efficiencies and incorporate critical information into their overall supply chain management systems.

Challenge

Valuable production time is wasted as employees search for an available device and accessory that is fully charged and in working order at the beginning of each shift.

With no designated spot or accountability for their devices, employees aren’t always conscientious at charging electronic devices at the end of their shift.

Solution

TechGuard Connect Lockers store, charge and manage company’s electronic assets, preparing the devices and accessories for the next shift. Employees are assigned a specific locker bay which is accessed via passcode or RFID to retrieve the device. When their shift is completed, they access the bay to store and charge the device.

In conjunction with Bretford Connect™, a cloud-based centralized management portal, data captures of check-in/checkout help manage the devices to ensure they are charged and ready to go for the next users.

Retail
Increased ROI related to employee productivity

At Bretford, we are helping retailers experience the raw value of mobile transformation with safe, efficient, secure, and intelligent charging solutions that support todays mobile technologies.

The modern retail landscape is becoming a haven of mobile devices. 89% of retailers plan to deploy mobile POS solutions by 2022, and those that already have are seeing 42% higher sales than their non-mobile competitors. In fact, the total mobile POS transaction value in 2020 is already over $1 trillion, and that is expected to double by 2023. The challenge becomes how to keep those now-critical mobile devices charged and provisioned shift-after-shift?

Bretford facilitates a mobile-ready retail reality. From industry-leading charging PowerSync Pro™ Smart Hubs that support mobile workflow management to employee workplace lockers, and a broad line-up of solutions that are optimized for iOS devices, Bretford is at the forefront of retail mobile charging solutions.

We keep your mobile device investment safe and charged during, between, and after shifts.
Industry Overview
Featured Solutions:

Learn more about these and other popular products by visiting our product pages.

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

  • Charging Stations & Smart Hubs

  • Charging Carts

Athletics
Engineered to go all out. All the time.

Leave the competition (and extension cords) behind with Bretford Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts built for instruction in the classroom and on the field. Give athletics programs the technological edge with durable, versatile, and highly mobile display carts for video and communication.

Bring class on grass with the Cordless Explorer™ Display Cart

Introducing the first Battery-Powered, Outdoor Rated, Ultra Stable Display Cart featuring 8” premium casters and IP65 Rated Swappable 1040Wh Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Power System with a 3 Year Warranty.

Featured Solutions:

Learn more about the TechGuard Connect Charging Lockers, Cordless ExplorerTM Display Carts, and more by visiting our product pages.

  • Cordless Explorer™ Display Carts

  • Explorer™ Display Cart

  • TechGuard Connect Charging Locker

The Power to Change Everything

Leave the competition (and extension cords) behind. Pinnacle communication in now effortless, everywhere. From the classroom to the football field, see Bretford’s Cordless Explorer™ Display Cart in practice and on game day.