Industry Case Studies

Construction

Roadworks are a costly business

Hundreds of highway maintenance gangs on Britain's roads undertake construction work for improvements each day. The legal requirement to notify councils and stick to their scheduled completion dates has put real pressure on teams to report progress, provide photographic evidence and manage paperwork accurately, whilst out on location. Factors such as human reporting errors and time delays in administration of paperwork have made the transport and construction sectors vulnerable to ongoing penalty fines and litigation costs.

Paperless solution

Oyster Technology, a software company which supplies this industry with a back-office system for planning and scheduling work, needed an all-encompassing software solution that would allow highway maintenance teams to report progress, electronically, whilst on the job. Keen to utilise mobile technology to achieve this, Oyster Technology invited eSAY Mobile to integrate their award winning WorkMobile^® software with its own existing system for an end to end paperless solution.

Heights of mobile technology

Highway maintenance teams, using WorkMobile^®, can input data electronically into a custom built data form on a handheld PDA, anytime and anywhere. WorkMobile^® means teams are free of lengthy administrative work, as inputted data is transmitted in real-time back to the head office and saved on the PDA. Integrated photo capture on WorkMobile^® means users can take images and attach to electronic forms instantly. The ability to capture and annotate photographs in detail on WorkMobile^® helps protect companies from potential litigation costs. With minimal time delays in reporting progress to head office, Oyster Technology's clients are able to stick to deadlines and considerably reduce their costs through avoiding penalty fines.