[ ACUITY ] Fully integrated and highly scalable inventory visibility system.

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1 [ ACUITY ] Fully integrated and highly scalable inventory visibility system Reduce linen losses & Save on linen purchases Streamline & Automate laundry operations Improve daily business decisions with real-time actionable information Ensure scalability & flexibility for your business growth Enhance customer relations and offer new valueadded services

2 A STATE-OF-THEART INVENTORY VISIBILITY SYSTEM FOR TEXTILE ASSETS Enhance your customer relations TAGSYS brings over 15 years expertise in RFID systems design and deployment within the textile rental service industry. As a pioneer and market leader in UHF RFID technology, TAGSYS has acquired the necessary knowhow in laundry business processes to provide a superior [ACUITY] helps you identify your customer textile usage patterns and quantities. [ACUITY] helps you provide accurate billing reports, including pay-per-use, loss and abused or repairs eliminating billing errors and helping reconcile differences. Improve your customer relationship; develop new value-added services and new billing/charging models. inventory management system called [ACUITY] that answers the exact needs of our customers. [ACUITY] enables you to offer new services to your customers such as real-time inventory of their own stocks, cage tracking, and monitoring of linen durability and life-cycle, while reflecting on new business models to be more competitive. Manage your textile assets in real-time, WITH ACTIONABLE INFORMATION AND REPORTS optimize your laundry processes " In addition to eliminating labor-intensive manual tasks (i.e. soiled linen hand-count) and to accelerating laundry operations, [ACUITY] leverages RFID and wireless technologies to help laundry operators accurately identify and register hundreds of items and data events instantly to provide real-time inventory information and reports on actual linen location, usage and life-cycle. This valuable information can be acted upon to help This valuable information can be acted upon to help reduce textile losses and abuses, and save on new purchases and monitor your laundry processes. reduce textile losses and abuses, and save on new purchases. " Processes and Tracking [ACUITY] optimizes business processes related to linen visibility: RFID-encode and register linen into the system Control soiled data at receiving on conveyor, in cages or in bags Monitor washing and sorting processes Accuracy and real-time stock management with [ACUITY] helps you improve production planning, reduce linen shortage situations, anticipate delivery schedules and improve overall service levels. Control clean data at storage or shipping Track linen cages at customer sites Condemn used/abused textile assets Additional processes such as item search or conducting on-site stock checks. 2 3

3 Unique reporting and analytics functions [ACUITY] generates real-time interactive dashboards and reports to optimize linen stock rotation at laundry and customer sites, addressing the following business and operational requirements: Visualize in real-time your linen stock at customer sites Manage soiled data to impact washing planning and anticipate deliveries Access current status, location and allocation of each piece of linen, by article reference or by individual item Retrieve information about lost or misplaced items, where they were seen last, how long have they been missing Manage cage assets in real-time Customer dashboards Real-time stock visibility with rotations and losses, Daily/weekly operations, Collection/delivery information Item-level reports Status of each item Positioning/localization Washing cycles Loss information Purpose-built RFID UHF stations for individual and bulk-processing of textile items compliant to industrial laundry standards and providing the highest read performance/speed ratio in the industry. RFID UHF tags for seamless integration (sewn or thermal adhesive) providing strongest resistance to laundry processes in the industry Laundry dashboards Real-time asset visibility Daily/weekly operations Stock visibility per zones Laundry capacity Process dashboards Receiving, Condemning with reason code, Shipping Customer interfaces Receiving, Collecting Flexibility and Scalability [ACUITY] is flexible, scalable, and adaptable to the evolving requirements of rental service suppliers in terms of multiple site deployments, textile item quantities and the IT infrastructure in place. Regardless of the environment deployed, the goal of [ACUITY] is to collect data from the field to a centralized database and provide analytics with a global guarantee of data delivery, consistency and availability, despite potential network or infrastructure failures. 4 THE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE OF [ACUITY] RELIES ON SEVERAL KEY COMPONENTS: Industry leading UHF RFID tags and stations Gateways, mainly local s, to provide user-interface interactions with the RFID equipment Laundry servers to manage RFID configurations and data collection for one to 3, with up to 25 Gateways Master servers to manage data centralization, analytics and reports, and the integration with the legacy IT system 5

4 [ACUITY] VISIBILITY SYSTEM A SCALABLE SYSTEM ADAPTED TO YOUR EVOLVING REQUIREMENTS TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS [ACUITY] system s architecture has been designed to meet the evolution of your requirements over time, in terms of business size, number of customers or volume of linen. The design foundation is made to protect your initial investment however your business should change or evolve in the future. SINGLE SITE 1M 10M 100M SINGLE-SITE OPERATIONS Single Server for one laundry - up to articles Gateways on site close to the RFID infrastructure MASTER SERVER ANALYSIS GB GB GB RAM 4TB GB RAM 30TB MILLION PIECE 10M PIECE Single Server for up to 4 server should be hosted on datacenter. - up to 1.2M articles Gateways on site close to device, up to 5 per site. between and server through VPN. Single Server for up to 4 server should be hosted on datacenter. - up to 1.2M articles Gateways on site close to device, up to 5 per site. MASTER SERVER INTEGRATION LAUNDRY SERVER Same as above Same as above Same as above Same as above Same as above Up to 4 Laundries GB dedicated Up to TB GB dedicated Up to 80 between and server through VPN. Master Server for ERP and Business Intelligence Integration up to 50M articles Analytic Server for real-time Analysis ON-SITE GATEWAYS Windows 7and 8 100M PIECE Multiple servers each for up to 4, up to 1.2M articles Gateways on site close to devices up to 5 per between, through VPN RFID DEVICES NETWORK & SECURITY Local Area Network between and server Gateways and servers can be hosted on dedicated hardware equipement or virtual machines. 6 7

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