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EZ Square Rat is a stand-alone Wi-Fi-enabled trap system that gives pest management professionals real-time alerts of rodent activity.
ARLINGTON, Texas – VM Products announces the EZ Square Rat, a new, stand-alone Wi-Fi-enabled trap system that gives pest management professionals real-time alerts of rodent activity. The snap trap alert system installs in about 60 seconds anywhere there’s a Wi-Fi connection or hotspot. EZ Square Rat provides online alerts when the snap trap has been deployed, giving pest professionals an immediate notification on a smart phone or tablet. This technology represents a paradigm shift in the way that pest control firms control rodents, the company reports. Technicians will have instant information when there is a pest issue, whether it be a minor single-trap incident or multiple. Rather than checking every trap physically to see if there’s activity, technicians can focus on the other aspects of pest control they provide to their customers. According to VM Products President and Founder Ethan Vickery, EZ Square Rat is the company’s second Electronic Rodent Monitoring (ERM) device, with more to come. VM Products paved the way with VM Now, a platform technology system developed to support large food processing accounts. EZ Square Rat is designed for all accounts. “EZ Square Rat helps technicians by giving them the ability to manage accounts differently by using critical real-time data,” said Vickery. “It also drops into hard-to-reach locations, so it makes working in difficult situations easier.” While performance is what the product delivers, technology is the cornerstone of EZ Square Rat’s development. “EZ Square Rat combines a traditional trap with innovation from the Internet of Things (IoT),” said Vickery. “VM Products is developing the next generation of rodent control solutions that will help increase performance through better technology.” Powered by a two-year battery, EZ Square Rat delivers daily keep-alive and online alerts. The system is an end-to-end solution that includes the snap trap hardware, the software component and a mobile application. Pest technicians use the mobile or tablet application during installation to add traps to a system and to receive push notifications. Once installed, the EZ Square Rat trap system provides data via Wi-Fi routers to an Internet server, where data is stored until it is pushed to pest professionals via smart phone or tablet application or a desktop web management portal.
“The EZ Square is the opportunity for early detection, permanent monitoring and dynamic cleanouts,” said Vickery. “ERM products like EZ Square Rat give pest control technicians the opportunity to identify and treat rodent activity before they grow into infestations.”\
Learn more at https://www.vmproducts.com/
Martin will serve as president of IFS’s Service Management business unit and CEO of WorkWave.
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces the appointment of field service industry veteran Marne Martin as president of IFS’s Service Management business unit and CEO of WorkWave.
The IFS Service Management business unit established under Marne will encompass the global IFS service management organization as well as WorkWave, acquired by IFS in September 2017, and have dedicated engineering, sales and marketing resources to address the unique needs of service management customers globally. Martin’s experience leading high-growth and expansion phases in both publicly and privately held companies will provide the leadership required to propel both brands into their next stages of growth and market expansion.
As both president of IFS Service Management and CEO of WorkWave, Martin and her leadership team will continue to elevate the strategic importance of service management to the success of the overall IFS business. Marne will focus on ensuring the entire portfolio of IFS’s service management solutions provide customers with the business value they expect from a global industry leader in field service management (FSM).
“I am thrilled to be leading such a great organization and to be part of the overall IFS senior leadership team as we begin a new chapter in our company’s growth,” said Martin. “WorkWave continues to be an important asset to the overarching value proposition of IFS Service Management, and I look forward to working with the talented IFS and WorkWave teams to make sure IFS’s service management portfolio becomes even more customer-focused.”
With Martin’s appointment to its senior leadership team, IFS will be able to draw on her broad experience and proven track record to further increase the significance of the service business and grow its global market share.
IFS CEO Darren Roos said, “Marne’s domain experience will enable us to further develop the service management capability across the entire portfolio to deliver even more value to our customers. We remain completely focused on delivering solutions together with our partners that have an impact on the way our customers serve their customers.”
Prior to IFS, Martin served as CEO and led the executive leadership team at ServicePower Plc., a field service management software company, where she transformed its go-to-market strategy and shifted its focus to SaaS and managed services revenue, increasing pipeline every year during her tenure. Prior to that, she served as CFO of Norcon, Plc., a UK-based telecom and defense consulting firm, where she grew the company from a business largely dominant in only the Middle East to one diversified across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Martin is a winner of a number of awards including 2016 CEO Gamechanger of the Year (FSM) from ACQ 5 Global Awards and 2015 Field Service CEO of the Year from Executive Awards.
Read more about Marne and IFS’s executive management team at: https://www.ifsworld.com/corp/company/governance/executive-management/