In the printing industry, not all customers want an MPS contract, many are satisfied with receiving the consumables on time and paying directly for the consumed cartridges or toners. It is for this reason that Nubeprint has just launched its Console 23 product on the market, a panel to manage automatic consumable replenishment only. Do you want to increase your sales and reach the end customer…?
When you have a monitoring system, it is common practice to include in the control panel all printers with an MPS contract and, for the most part, those customers who do not have a contract, and have a significant number of machines as well as those with one or very few printers, are usually left out of the monitoring.
This means that consumable replenishment is not automated and management is old-fashioned: either the customer claims the consumable when he thinks he is low on supplies (or, worse, when he has run out); or the distributor is waiting to contact his customer to see how many consumables he needs, it being common practice to send several extra at a time so that his customer has a small local stock (this is often fatal because consumables are lost).
Nubeprint’s new Console 23 provides a definitive and competitive solution for managing non-contract customers who require consumable replenishment, automating the entire process and avoiding headaches. This new product consists of a control panel that includes the necessary apps for ASR:
– App Inventory, with all the information of the monitored printers (manufacturer, model, serial no., etc.).
– Consumable Alerts App, which shows all the cartridges whose level has reached the defined threshold and will soon have to be replaced in the printer.
– Settings App, which allows you to easily enable or disable alerts, change the recipient of notifications and rename or delete a project.
– OpenDCA App, which allows you to manage the multiple data collectors (DCA) you use to monitor your customers’ printers. A state-of-the-art configuration console to remotely modify the DCA’s configuration used to read the network.
The new Console 23 allows ASR management of up to 1,000 printers, with a fixed annual price well below what you are thinking, which also includes the first 30 consumables alerts. Once these have been consumed, successive alert packages can be purchased, with a minimum of 30.
In addition, thanks to the new Nubeprint App (with more than 1,000 downloads per month), the end customer can register and link directly to the service of the Nubeprint-licensed reseller who has given them their promotional code (in less than 3 minutes, the customer’s printer/s are monitored through the Nubeprint DCA for smartphone).
We think that the Console 23 is the ideal product for any distributor who wants to increase their ASR sales and reach all types of end customers (home, teleworker, dentist, agency, law firm, real estate, etc.). If you already have a Nubeprint license with your usual panel, the Console 23 can be a perfect complement for automatic consumable replenishment. If you are not yet working with us…what are you waiting for not to miss this great opportunity…?
A smart city needs Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and an intelligent network of connected objects that transmit data in real time (IoT). This data is analyzed to make decisions that improve the quality of life and sustainability. How does this network really work…?
Smart City citizens interact daily with their city’s ecosystems through the use of smartphones and mobile devices. This interconnectedness reduces costs and improves sustainability, from efficient energy distribution to optimizing air quality.
Environmental, social and economic sustainability is vital to keep pace with the population growth of cities that are challenging available resources. Nearly 200 countries have agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and smart city technology is paramount to their fulfillment.
There are four essentials for the success of Smart Cities:
1. pervasive wireless connectivity – In addition to low power wide area network (LPWAN) technologies, 5G technology will be critical to the expansion of smart cities.
2. Open data -The ecosystem will allow information to be shared and combined with data that is analyzed in real time for decision making. However, the openness of the Data vault increases the possibility of cyber-attacks.
Security – All players in the ecosystem (governments, companies, software providers, etc.) must integrate authentication solutions that guarantee data sharing.
4. Flexible monetization schemes – Subscription-based models enable sustainable commerce by providing a way to monetize the hardware and software used to build smart infrastructures and spread the costs.
In short, Smart Cities technology is expanding to improve sustainability. With pervasive connectivity, open data, security and software monetization solutions, the varying needs of smart cities are being addressed, improving the experience for all players in the ecosystem.
Cloudprint complies with the most stringent security and data protection regulations, as well as not being intrusive or leaving access ports open unnecessarily, preventing cyber-attacks. It has also adopted a combination of usage-based and subscription-based models, known as usage-based subscriptions. Customers pay a fixed monthly fee with no commitment of permanence for a minimum configuration (for an additional charge, more apps can be flexibly added ). In terms of sustainability, Nubeprint promotes the circular economy, with A.I. applied to optimizing resources and reducing waste, complying with the SDGs.
On the seabed of the North Sea off the coast of Denmark, the first CO2 reservoir has been established that will store this unwanted gas produced from the manufacturing process. The process is simple and efficient: in the factory itself that generates it, the CO2 is converted to liquid form for transport, via heating, then compressing and finally cooling the CO2. Is it a complete process or is something missing…?
The result is CO2 in liquid form: easy to transport and store. It is transported by gas tankers from the coast to the platform of a former oil well, now exhausted. It is then injected into the subsoil to occupy the place where, until not so long ago, the black gold lay.
We said that everything is in place to make this practice commonplace in order to neutralize CO2 emissions. We correct: the sensors are missing. In a process of this scale, which involves different industries, countries and legislations, it is critical to have information on each phase (how much CO2 an industry emits, how much is captured, etc.).
In the printing industry, we were part of the revolution that involved creating the first sensor capable of capturing data on the use and status of printers installed remotely. This sensor, later baptized DCA (Data Collection Agent), gave rise to a new business: the MPS (Nubeprint has a lot to say because its engineers and founders were the ones who dreamed of this technology and made it a reality with the first patent in 2000).
But, as with CO2 capture and storage, in printing a single sensor is not enough, quite the contrary. As the sensor is the secure connection between the source of the data (which is located next to the printer user) and the place where the data is to be used (the supplier of the printing products), it is very unlikely that a single sensor can be adapted to the requirements of each and every one of the printing customers (the requirements of a bank with thousands of printers are not the same as those of a dentist’s practice with a single printer).
For all these reasons, Nubeprint has developed the concept of a data collector ecosystem. This is a whole library of DCAs that have the same purpose: to read the printer status and usage data and transport it in the most convenient way to the place where it needs to be used.
Currently, Nubeprint has DCAs for LAN, WIFI and USB connected printers; laser and inkjet printers and multifunctional equipment; Ribbon, thermal, large format and 3D printers; even DCAs for scanners; also DCAs for PCs, servers, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and Raspberry.
We are aware that our developments position our customers competitively and that they are also their gateway and the basis for the expansion of new business. For this reason, Nubeprint never stops researching, dedicating year after year 30% of its turnover to R+D+I activities.
The SETI Institute has been searching for intelligent life beyond Earth since the 1960s. Recently, it has implemented a series of machine learning algorithms to filter the Big Data generated from telescope observations. Is there life in “a Galaxy far, far away…”?
AI is all the rage: from Chat GPT to the recent petition by 1,000 scientists calling for a 6-month waiting period for AI, which is going too fast. Artificial Intelligence is here to stay and is capable of solving in seconds what would take a human being days, months or even years of effort and dedication.
The SETI Institute has developed a system of machine learning algorithms, based on AI, that filters out interference from terrestrial signals and is able to detect unknown space signals. This AI system also aids in the analysis of Big Data obtained from telescope searches and, perhaps, in finding extraterrestrial life.
Since 2015, SETI has been searching for signs of intelligent life in a million stars through observations from telescopes installed in Virginia (USA), Australia and South Africa. The project aims to capture radio emissions coming from the direction of a star and constantly changing frequency (just as would happen if an extraterrestrial transmitter were on a planet moving relative to Earth).
Machine learning software was built to analyze the data from observations of 820 stars. Nearly three million signals were captured, but the vast majority were discarded as terrestrial interference. Then, about 20,000 others were manually reviewed and the hope was reduced to 8 signals of unknown origin.
Ultimately, the search was unsuccessful: all 8 signals disappeared the second time the team searched for them. However, this method could be used to analyze more Big Data (such as observations from the MeerKAT array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa), plus the algorithms could also filter archived data to look for signals that might have been missed.
Nubeprint has a managed MPS solution with dynamic algorithms and filters.
In 2013, it developed the first A.I. engine for MPS and, since 2017, it has a Machine Learning (ML) developed specifically for MPS: through this machine learning, the system develops pattern recognition and the ability to learn continuously, with predictions based on Big Data, after which it makes the necessary adjustments without having been specifically programmed to do so.
Nubeprint has its own history and its reason for being.
In June 2010 we created Nubeprint with a clear vocation to serve the business society through the intelligent use of monitoring technology. Our mission is to use this technology as a way to automate processes and optimize resources and costs derived from the remote management of equipment.
Nubeprint has been a pioneer in the development of intelligent monitoring technology. It invests more than 30% of its turnover (revenue or profits) in R&D&I. The result is a new patent every 2 years and dozens of unique developments with recognized intellectual property. Our unique technology has helped us to expand. Today, Nubeprint is not limited to the enterprise environment, but its monitoring tools are available to anyone with a cell phone or even a Smart TV.
Collaboration is very important to Nubeprint. We cooperate with our customers to identify their problems and help solve them. We work hard to ensure that Nubeprint remains, year after year, the best monitoring tool on the market, but we know that the benefits for our customers are multiplied when they can use our tools in combination with others, such as ERP or their incident management system. For this reason, Nubeprint remains the most open monitoring tool on the market, connectable with any other tool that brings added value to the industry.
We have been talking about the universality of monitoring since 2010, and time has proven us right. More and more equipment is connected to the cloud and more and more users are demanding a more robust experience of the use and enjoyment of the equipment. Cloudprint technology has removed the barriers that small businesses had to providing customer experience services, such as subscriptions to automatic consumables replenishment. And by the same token, now any customer, even a home consumer or teleworker, can enjoy these types of services, reserved until 2020 for businesses.
We are proud of what we have achieved, but we still have a long way to go. If you are a customer, know that Nubeprint is committed to providing you with the best and most advanced tools today, as well as 10 years from now. If you are someone with ideas or a technologically advanced product, we will be happy to collaborate to build a value proposition that benefits mutual customers, and therefore all of us.
Antonio Sánchez Navarro and Juan José San Martín Mazzucconi – Founders.
The quantum computer is the new space trip to the moon.
The EU aims to lead manufacturing and innovation in the industry and is paying special attention to an emerging sector that could be vital in the new world order: quantum computing has become the new trip to the Moon. Who will win this space race…?
In the 1960s, J. F. Kennedy made a plea to defend the money the U.S. was pouring into the space race. Today, no one doubts how NASA’s advances drive progress, but Kennedy’s speech struck a deeper chord and also demonstrated that innovation comes from the state.
That national impulse consists of having an ambitious vision of the future that promotes innovation together with the necessary investments to achieve it. It was thanks to this that man landed on the moon.
According to the OECD, while the EU27 investment in R&D&I was 2.19% of its GDP in 2020 (1.4% in Spain), China’s was as high as 2.4% and the US 3.45%.
In the USA, Joe Biden, has taken a new national impulse measure: the Inflation Reduction Act, with significant subsidies to green technologies and protectionism to its domestic products, which will encourage strong competition with Europe.
For its part, the European Commission has presented bills for the Zero Net Emissions Industry and for Critical Raw Materials, in addition to the Green New Deal and the European Chip Act. These measures could lay the foundation for the new European drive, similar to the US Apollo program.
Regarding the emerging quantum computing industry, we can say that it has a great potential that requires a large ecosystem in which all the technology is integrated. If the EU wants to be a leader in this new field, the whole supply chain should be European.
Although China and the U.S. are the main investors and have the most powerful machines, the European Union has been leading scientific production in quantum computing since 2010, although policies have been limited to the laboratory and not to industry.
It is now that, thanks to European Next Generation funds, we have the example of Spain, which will have two quantum computers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (which leads the European quantum computing network), in addition to a third from IBM in the Basque Country.
In short, Europe must bet big in the race for quantum computing if it wants to be a leader in innovation. Only in this way will it come closer to an inspiring future like the one promoted by J.F. Kennedy.
Nubeprint has been a pioneer in the development of intelligent monitoring technology. It invests more than 30% of its turnover in R&D&I. The result is a new patent every 2 years and dozens of unique developments with recognized intellectual property. Our unique technology has helped us to expand. Today, Nubeprint is not limited to the corporate environment, but its monitoring tools are available to anyone with a cell phone or even a Smart TV.
No promotions, no better hours… More telecommuting and less commuting!
During the pandemic, we learned to knead bread and wash our hands well, but also to work from home. This change in habits has meant that 40% of European employees want to telecommute a minimum of two days a week, but… Are companies adapting to this new hybrid model?
Working remotely has changed the employee’s perspective, with the need for greater work-life balance. This has also encouraged companies to offer flexible working and telecommuting as the first options to retain and attract talent.
There is consensus on teleworking and the hybrid model is the most widespread. Employee perception varies according to which model: 76% are satisfied with a hybrid system, compared to only 50% of those who work on-site.
However, the flexibility of this mixed model also varies according to who: 55% of employers want a fixed teleworking model (with days of their choice), while 67% of employees prefer days of their choice for a better work-life balance.
It is not surprising that avoiding commuting as much as possible is fundamental in the employee’s decision, with the consequent savings in costs and time. Let’s take a look at some examples of what the “in itinere” commute entails:
– In Spain, only 26% of the working population reaches their workplace in less than 20 minutes, more than 4 million (21%) take more than an hour and the average commuting time is 36 minutes.
– The average time taken by Europeans to get to work is 42 minutes. Portugal takes the least time, with 34 minutes.
– In Latin America, cities such as Sao Paulo, Caracas, Mexico City and Bogota have it worst, taking an hour to get to work. The best positioned is Montevideo, with 35 minutes.
– In New York, the average travel time is above the national average of 26 minutes. In 69% of the Big Apple neighborhoods, the commute is more than 40 minutes.
* In all of these examples we are talking about the average commute time one way, and then you have to go back….
In short, telework is here to stay and is increasingly becoming part of the business offer. In 2000, only 8% of employees had ever worked from home, similar data to 2019, where 85% had never done so. Due to confinement in 2020, this figure dropped below 40%.
100% of Nubeprint’s workforce works remotely. In addition, its App enables flexible working for any teleworker who needs a printer at home. By simply downloading the Nubeprint App on their smartphone, they will be monitored and will always receive their consumables on time, without having to look for the correct reference and can carry out their activity without unwanted interruptions, with their ink, toner or drum always ready.
USP (Unique Selling Proposition) is the unique selling proposition that a brand or a company can provide. Nubeprint stands out from other monitoring systems because it provides a whole series of proposals that are unique in the market, providing a differential value. What are these USPs…?
Nubeprint has been a pioneer in the development of intelligent monitoring technology, investing more than 30% of its turnover in R&D&I. The result is a new patent every 2 years and dozens of unique developments with recognized intellectual property.
In 2018 we created the first and only DCA integrated in a cell phone app ( iOS and Android), monitoring printers through the customer’s smartphone. The new Nubeprint app allows any printer end user to self-register and select the consumable sales service provider.
In the Nubeprint system, the consumables alert threshold can be changed to days, the only tool on the market with this option. This alternative also allows you to group shipments from a specific customer to a single day of the week, saving on time and fuel costs.
Recently, we have created the option of printing labels with a QR code that the dealer can attach to each printer, a label where the dealer’s name appears, giving it a differential value. When the customer scans the QR code, he accesses in real time to the printer’s Cloud, being able to see its status and interact with his dealer.
Last but not least, The Nubeprint system is the most secure on the market, complying with up to 7 international regulations regarding data protection and cpm security, avoiding security breaches.
During the pandemic, we were confined, we protected ourselves with masks and, if we touched anything, we soon used disinfectant gel. This itself helped the rise of QR codes: without touching a restaurant menu or a magazine, we learned to access information by scanning the QR with our smartphone. Hasn’t it made our life easier…?
QR (Quick Response) codes are encodings that contain specific information (URL, SMS, email, text, etc.) and can be found on travel tickets, vending machines, brochures, websites, etc. Interested parties access the information by scanning it with an app. Due to the pandemic and their easy use on smartphones, these QR codes are already part of our daily lives.
This code, which never expires and is unlimited scanning, can be placed anywhere and we only need a sticker printer to print it. We can use it at our points of sale to show the customer information that may be useful to him.
Related to the latter, Nubeprint announces an important new feature: you can now print the QR on identification labels for printers!
The Panel user (Dealer operator or your end customer) can easily print the QR on the printer with a single click.
What it is for:
1) The QR is the best way for a printer user to report an issue when he is in front of the printer. By scanning the QR with his own smartphone, the Cloud of that printer is displayed.
2) From the Cloud obtained, you can see the status of the consumables and if any replacement cartridges have already been sent to the printer. You can also see if there are any open technical issues and their status or open an issue.
3) On NetLess printers, the QR allows the user to report the counter value and order consumables, as well as request technical assistance.
4) The printed label contains the QR and also the Dealer’s name, allowing you to identify all the printers you manage for your customer, differentiating them from those you do not. The QR is an automatic information service for the end customer and for reporting incidents, so by placing this label, the Dealer is providing its customers with a differentiating value compared to its competitors.
How it works “Print QR”:
1º. In Panel, find the printer for which you want to print the QR.
2º. Open your Cloud by clicking on the serial number.
3º. Click on the QR image. A new tab will open in the browser with the image to be printed.
4º. From that page of the browser, select print (this option is usually in the Menu), select the printer and print.
* It is recommended to use a printer for printing adhesive labels.
Finally, it should be noted that the label comes personalized with the Dealer’s name (as registered on your Nubeprint license) and that no other printer monitoring system has this functionality.
The natives of this tribe in the Brazilian Amazon have traded bows and arrows for laptops and smartphones to fight deforestation and protect their land. Thanks to new technologies, they will preserve their survival. What is this unusual alliance with Google engineers…?
The result of this collaboration is a map of 243,000 hectares with which the Suruí have monitored the entire forest around them.
Thanks to the immediacy of the Internet, new mobile devices, Google Earth, GPS and other technologies, the Suruí are vigilant of any threat to their ecosystem.
The Suruí used to live surrounded by jungles in the state of Rondônia, in northern Brazil, until the construction of a highway made their reserve accessible to the rest of the world and deforestation began, which became a major threat.
Almir Suruí (the first member of the tribe with a university education), searched for his territory in Google Earth and decided to travel to California to meet with a Google manager and, with the help of new technologies, create an interactive map of the Suruí’s land to preserve the ecosystem.
Rebeca Moore, head of Google Earth’s social branch, understood the threat posed by illegal loggers and mining companies and facilitated Google’s technology to protect the Suruí’s land, incorporating software into the smartphone to send and collect data from anywhere in the forest.
Today, this data not only serves to map the Suruí’s territory, but also to warn of its rapid deterioration at the click of a button, making it possible to report deforestation wherever it occurs in real time and send images immediately to the authorities.
The 3D atlas that Google Earth and the Suruí have created goes beyond an inventory of the flora and fauna of this territory, allowing new generations and any Internet user to access the tribe’s history, culture and traditions. The current challenge is to extend this initiative to other South American countries.
Nubeprint allows to create a map of all the printers managed in MPS. Each project identifies a specific client with all the printers it has, of any type or brand, with the manufacturer, model, serial number and IP, as well as all the necessary information for managing the printer fleet, appearing on the dealer’s panel. It is also possible to detail the exact location of the machine (department, office, etc.) and the contact person for a specific section, including telephone and email. As an important novelty, we can print a sticker with a QR code for each printer when we visit the customer, a label where the dealer’s name and QR code will appear, and that will allow each customer to scan it at any time to access the Cloud of the printer and see the Data in real time, even share with the dealer the information to detect any problem or monitor the status of the particular machine.
