SITEPLAYER – IT’S YOUR WORLD, SERVE IT

September is always the most hectic month of the year for Jim, who is the head of beverage distribution for all of the vendors at Memorial Stadium. It’s 11pm on Saturday night and the three game series with New York has just ended with an extra-innings pitcher’s dual. Now, Jim needs to make sure that there is enough ice and soda to serve the 80,000 screaming fans that are coming for tomorrow afternoon’s football game against Dallas. Sounds like another long night for Jim?

Well it used to be, but not anymore. Thanks to the new equipment Jim received, the time-consuming task of manually checking every ice machine and soda dispenser is over. That’s because each piece of equipment contains a built in SitePlayer™, the world’s smallest Ethernet web server. Now Jim needs only to browse on-line through his PC, and all the information he needs is at his fingertips. With a few points and clicks of the mouse, Jim adjusts the thermostats on the ice machines to extra cool, checks the level of soda in their dispensers and realizes that he needs to place an order for 100 more cases. SitePlayer lets Jim do all of this at home while he sips the ice cold beer that has been waiting for him all day. A couple of hour’s work has just been cut into a couple of minutes. Jim now has the time to watch that late night movie he wants to see. With SitePlayer, Jim’s life just became a little bit easier.