Utilities

Location Based Programme for Mobile Reporting in the Oil and Gas sector. "The ability for our field based teams to accurately record the work they have been involved in means we have rapid visualisation of any issues within our network. Being able to easily and cost effectively capture a date, time and location stamped image and report, means we can without any doubt verify when work was done and our teams were in the area. The mobile reporting tool gives us the whole team the ability to understand the local picture from any part of the world."

Features:

• Offline and online geo-tagged and time / date stamped image and data report gathering

• Line walking and tracking functionality included

• Simple 'one-click' process to upload images and data to web mapping application.

• Application enables real time view of assets from anywhere in the world

• Utilising Location Analytics to easily analyze captured data in specific locations

• Deployed quickly and simply onto Windows tablet devices and various smartphone platforms

Benefits of the product:

• Reduces the number of devices that field based operatives need to carry and the associated costs

• Simple to use features

• Huge reduction in admin time for report entry to our systems – details from the field are instantly saved in the database

• Can be utilized for 'in motion' report gathering, for example in helicopters

• Filter results by range of attributes including date/time, user, region, type of asset

• Data connectivity not required at point of use

• Saving of days in the report gathering and sharing process

• Can be utilized to track journeys and field 'line walks' without the need for the connectivity

• Powerful and sophisticated web-gis application incorporated

Highlights:

• The MapCite Mobile Reporting application enables field based staff to gather location specific data and images without the need to rely on connectivity. These reports can then be submitted when connection is available.  This greatly speeds up the process - which in turn delivers significant savings, in terms of time and financial resources.

• The mobile reporting application enables teams in every part of the world to share, in real-time, the images and data from reports gathered 'in the field'. This enhances the teams' location intelligence which has traditional been difficult - saving greatly on resource, technical and travel costs.

• A typical reduction of 24 hours in the process of reporting, sharing and visualizing of potential emergency situations identified by field based engineers, enables far more rapid response by the appropriate teams, enabling us to keep the infrastructure operating safely and more efficiently.