Orange and Handheld PCs Ltd announced the award of a significant contract with the Skanska Balfour Beatty Joint Venture for the provision of a hosted mobile computing solution on the Orange network. The system is designed to provide real-time management of quality issues arising from the field during the £1.1 billion improvements to the M25 motorway.
Skanska Balfour Beatty Quality Inspectors use smartphones provided by Orange, which run the hand-e-pix software to capture time, date and GPS-stamped images of the works in progress. The images also carry notes relating to specific quality issues and alert the management team to any defects requiring immediate action.
The images and related information are presented to managers via the hand-e-pix Media Manager - a secure, managed web database from where reports are generated and trends are analysed. All the data travels across the Orange high performance network, which allows for real-time information exchange from the field.
David Blackburn, Managing Director of the Joint Venture said, "It is of paramount importance that the scheme is completed to strict deadlines. With hand-e-pix we have real-time visibility of the works in progress and can respond instantly to problems that might otherwise compromise our ability to complete key engineering phases on time”. This latest contract award for Handheld PCs and hand-e-pix adds to an already prestigious array of customers across different industry sectors.
Russell Davis, Director of Corporate Sales, Orange added, “The construction industry is a key market for Orange. Both Skanska and Balfour Beatty are longstanding Orange mobile customers, and working with Handheld PCs to enable this construction project for the Skanska Balfour Beatty Joint Venture is just one example of how our data network can help large field-projects run smoothly and efficiently”.
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