Every organisation has remote workers; field-based employees or contractors who receive paper job instructions from central locations. This usually involves completing paper forms by hand and either posting or delivering them back to base. It will usually be entered into the same back-office system that originally produced the paper form. However, the technology exists to…
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Mobile Working
Signposting the future
Signpost Housing Association has implemented text messaging for communications with its maintenance teams in the field. Dorset-based Signpost realised the importance of communicating quickly and cheaply with its 250-strong team of maintenance and repairs workers, all of whom are issued with mobile phones. At first, SMS messages were sent by members of Signpost’s office-based services…
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Vale of Aylesbury gets off stock-free
In partnership with 1st Touch and Buildbase, Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has got rid of its in-house warehouse and moved to only carrying imprest stock on its vans, significantly reducing its running costs. Buildbase, the builders’ merchants, is providing the necessary stock and 1st Touch is supplying the mobile workforce solution to support the…
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Lean green Erimus machines
Erimus Housing has implemented the carbon-reducing, fuel-saving GreenerFleet solution from Masternaut Three X. The Middlesbrough-based housing association implemented the web-based vehicle tracking and emissions management system across its 100-strong fleet of building maintenance vehicles. After three months, Erimus has seen a reduction in fuel usage and an overall improvement in driver safety. The Masternaut system…
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Burnside kicks off vandal-proof phone
Burnside Telecom has launched a vandal- and weather-proof phone that can be used in any location with GSM network coverage. The Burnside GSM Tough Phone, which can mounted anywhere and powered by mains power, internal battery or solar panel, can be deployed immediately, without the delay and expense sometimes associated with landline phones. The phone…
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£80 million Wansbeck plan supported by PDAs
An £80 million regeneration programme at Wansbeck Homes will be supported by advanced mobile-working technology from Consilium Technologies. Wansbeck Homes, a newly-formed housing association managing 5500 homes, is upgrading its housing stock with double glazing, new kitchens and bathrooms. Providing mobile working facilities for the maintenance team will allow the improvements to be carried out…
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