Reply® Solo

Did you ever want to conduct a survey fast without a PC? Are you sometimes in a location that's inconvenient to set up a video display? Or are there places that just don't have electricity available?

If so, consider this new Reply® product. It's ideal for impromptu meetings on the production floor, a school field trip, a community meeting, a church study group, a youth sports team, or any other gathering at which you'd like to capture more useful feedback than the typical raised hands or loud voices usually provide.

Description

Reply® Solo Technical Specifications (PDF, 74KB)

The Reply® Solo is a compact, handheld base station that processes multiple choice responses from a Reply® Mini or Worldwide keypads. Reply® Solo is a unique product because a separate PC and polling software are not required to conduct an audience polling session. Reply® Solo allows audience response activities to be conducted in any location – indoors or outdoors – without the need for electricity, computers, and special projection equipment. However, Reply® Solo's Video Out socket can output to a TV screen or a Projector/ Reply® Solo is a supplement to, and not a replacement for, traditional group audience response methods. The purpose of the Reply® Solo system is to take interaction anywhere.

Technical Specifications

Enclosure

Compact enclosure constructed of rugged ABS plastic.
Dimensions: 6"L x 2.5"W x 1"H.
Weight: 5 ounces (with batteries installed).

Operator Interface

Keyboard:

Consists of 23 keys placed in operating zones. Keys are also shaped and colored to further distinguish their purposes.

Display:

Large 132 x 64 graphics LCD displays a variety of information.
[Optional] TV Output using NTSC and PAL/SECAM formats.

Questionnaire Capabilities

Supports up to 99 multiple choice questions per session.
Predefined questions are loaded onto the Base Station via a USB flash drive (“USB stick”)**.
Results may be viewed as either a graph of the group response or a grid of individual responses
Results are stored in the Handheld Base Station’s memory. and can also be saved to a USB stick**.

RF Technology

Two-way radio design uses eligible license-free/license-exempt frequencies
Employs a Fleetwood-engineered 2.4 GHz frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) transceiver.
Communicates using a patented and proprietary radio protocol.
15 channel identities are available to provide installation flexibility.
High performance internal antenna is protected by the enclosure.

Range

System is designed for 300 foot range during open air operation.
Room geometry and RF propagation characteristics will influence actual range experienced.

Speed

50 keypads can be polled in ½ second.

Power Supply

Communications Security

A proprietary response verification protocol integral to the radio design provides a high degree of signal security.
Frequency hopping and proprietary data communications are additional deterrents to clandestine interception.

Scalability

Firmware resides in high performance microprocessor chips that can be reprogrammed to facilitate easy upgrade during the life of the product.
Adding keypads to an existing system requires them to be set to unused addresses. No change is required on the Base Station when adding keypads of the same channel.

Compliance and Patents

FCC, IC, CE certified. Call for details regarding these and other regulatory certifications.
U.S. Patent Nos. Re. 35,449 and 5,724,357. European Patent No. EP 0 697 773. Other US and foreign patents and patents pending.

Warranty

2 YEAR (limited warranty, factory parts and labor). Call for details.

System Configuration

A basic Reply® Solo system consists of...

One Reply® (Worldwide) Wireless Keypad per participant
One Reply® Solo Base Station per 50 keypads of the same radio channel in a room. [Other Reply® Base Station models that operate with Model CRS5200 wireless keypads can process responses up to 250 keypads per Base Station and >5,000 users per room. Contact Fleetwood for more details on other Reply Worldwide systems.]

*Optional accessories (purchased separately) include PC software for formulating pre-defined questions, base station and keypad carrycases, and more.

The system is very simple to use and requires no formal training.

* Questionnaire Software (Purchased separately.)

An easy to use software utility that prepares questionnaires for Reply Solo.
The utility also generates basic reports from session data stored on Reply® Solo.

** Flash Drive (Purchased separately.)

USB flash drives, also known as “USB sticks”, are required if users wish to preprogram questionnaires and transfer Reply® Solo session results to a PC for further analysis.
Contact TeamTalk for information about supported drives.

Wireless Keypad Model CRS5200 (Purchased separately.)

CRS5200 wireless audience response keypads operate with Reply® (Worldwide) and Reply® Solo base stations.
Refer to the Reply® (Worldwide) Technical Specifications for more information.

Carrycases (Purchased separately.)

A variety of soft and hard sided cases are available to tote, ship, and/or store Reply Solo Base Stations and Reply (Worldwide) Keypads.
Refer to Accessories Price Sheet for more information.

Pricing

The Solo has a list price of US$395.00 (UK£214.00). TeamTalk sells all the Reply brand products wherever people wish to buy them. We have a number of international affiliates who sell the products.

Downloads

Technical specifications and pricing (subject to change) are available for download in PDF format.