Scenarios

Construction: - Snagging

The Challenge

• Improve the quality of snagging data and enable real-time uploading of snags that have been identified. Currently the users would fill out paper forms and on some occasions take photographs of snags to coincide with the paper form reporting. The user would then have to travel back to the office and start the data entry process. This would involve the user taking the data storage card out of the camera and plugging it into a card reader. Then the recovered pictures would have to be married up to the paper forms information. The paper forms data would be typed onto the system and pictures would be allocated to the file.

The Solution

• The snagging team would be given a digital pen, digital snagging forms and a mobile phone that has a camera. The users would fill out the snagging form as usual; if they needed to take a photograph the camera phone would be used. Once the user has completed a digital snagging form, they would tick a send box at the bottom of the page and any photographs that have been taken by the camera phone would also be sent with the form data. Each picture and form has a time and date stamp, all pictures and forms and data are sent to the online forms management tool. Administrators can easily search and locate the required information and once validated, the data is transmitted to the snagging software.

Civil (Digital pen and mapping)

• The organisation has various buried assets, specifically electricity cables. When a gang goes out to do a job they sometimes notice something about part of the network - a damaged cable, a leaking joint, etc. This is useful information about the state of the network, but because it isn't really part of the job in hand it is difficult to get anyone to record it. At best some scribbled notes are made, at worst it is simply ignored as the gang concentrates on doing the work they have been sent to do.

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