IML and Cliffhanger Solutions are pleased to announce that Atlas is now fully integrated with the IML Wood Inspection Drill, IML-RESI PD-Series. This means that an inspector can now simply select a pole, drill the pole to obtain measurements upon which the results are obtained via bluetooth, associated with the inspected pole and uploaded to the back office. [...]
We, at Cliffhanger Solutions, are pleased to announce that Atlas now uses Extensions. In the past we had all functionality automatically enabled in the core product, but since we have significantly expanded Atlas's functional footprint over the past year, we were forced to only enable functionality as needed. From a pure technical perspective, Atlas still contains all extensions. [...]
Shortly after deploying our A.I. module, an anomaly was detected. The tool, designed to assist utilities to optimize inspections through machine learning, is using a classification model to separate 'good' poles from 'bad' ones. This can then be used to predict which (un-inspected) poles should be inspected next, saving time and money, preventing outages etc. [...]
The terms Work Flow and Work Order management are often confused and considered the same, however, in reality, a Work Flow is an integral part of a Work Order process. Sound complex? Some systems are complex and some Work Order systems are extremely difficult to use. This is not necessarily because they have been setup incorrectly [...]
Over 75% of the US population uses the internet nowadays. Mostly to find stuff. That information does not reside in databases, but in indices. Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc. all use indices to find the information relevant to you, fast. So...why are you still using databases in your back office? We at Cliffhanger are applying the [...]
Elaborate processes, different software components, working only connected or only disconnected, different types of software, a pure windows based solution and using a multitude of databases are a thing of the past! Atlas was designed to work with all major platforms out of the box, either in a connected or disconnected environment! Create a Pole Inspection [...]
Our goal, as engineers, is to come up with ideas on how to do things better, more efficient, while saving cost at the same time. Several of our clients use GPS for fleet management. A GPS device is installed in (maintenance) trucks, and data is collected and visualized on some dashboard applications. In the same vehicles, they also use tablets running our mapping software.
Fleet tracking using GPS
This eliminates the use of a dedicated GPS device and all the associated back-end software, servers, etc. And if you still want to use existing dashboards, simply use our platforms API to derive the data. One of the data sources is, you guessed it, is GPS. After some thinking we thought this was kind of silly: so we have a GPS device, sending data to a central location, which is then being ‘downloaded’ back into the trucks? But tablets and smartphones (both Android and iOS) have GPS build in. And the App is already sending data back and forth. So it doesn’t take a genius to realize that we can easily have the App to share its current location, to be shared an processed between users.
