The API will allow “third party software to tap directly into PrintReleaf”.
The new solution enables software providers to embed PrintReleaf’s “automated reforestation technology” into their own and the company said that dealers, distributers and customers will be able to improve their “automation stack” because everything can be done from the programme in “real time” from the API.
This means that account management and organisation of additions as well as print data administration in exchange for trees can be done through the API. PrintReleaf have built an Amazon IoT button into the system so that each time it is pressed a tree is planted.
Nicola DeBlasi, CEO, MPS Monitor, said: “Using the PrintReleaf API we provide full integration, seamless user experience, full automation; dealers and customers perceive MPS Monitor and PrintReleaf as a single, integrated solution, so that reforestation becomes integral part of their Managed Print Services environment. With this integration we maximize the environmental benefits of The Internet of Printers: devices are connected 24*7 to a Cloud where all operational, economic and ecological aspects are optimized and managed.”
PrintReleaf have also working with new technology with two Masters students at the University of Colorado who are part of the the Environment Programme and working on their own Capstone Project which involves creating a core criteria and developing a custom criteria for each forest so that the survival of the funded trees planted can be recorded.
The company said that it will remain “open to any and all technologies that may benefit the cost, simplicity and scale of each audit” and has been “researching GIS mapping and drone technology” and has in fact acquired from Vantage Robotics a new product “enabling 4K video and lightweight durable portability”.