Do you need to have a better insight into your GE Smallworld usage? Do you want to know what functionality is used, for how long and how often? Do you want to know how many plots were made last month? Is your system is lagging, showing poor performance, hangs, has frequent tracebacks or even crashes? [...]
You have deployed smart meters from 1 or more vendors. Each come with their proprietary software to manage said smart meters. But what you need is an overview of the state of your network without a full blown outage management system (OMS). This scenario is one that many smaller utilities and co-ops face. Welcome to [...]
Cliffhangers constant commitment to innovation and product improvements will come to shine with the next release of Atlas. Version 2.8 will support fully configurable, easy to use forms. One of the use cases for this functionality is that inspection data will be automatically distributed to inspectors in the field and automatically uploaded back to the Atlas [...]
Cliffhanger Solutions is pleased to announce the release of forms. Forms are easy to configure data capture widgets for Atlas. This new functionality will be added to Atlas as standard (core) functionality and will roll out to existing users over the next few weeks. Simply put, forms enables configuration & functionality such as Pole Inventory, [...]
Missed John in Orlando? GE invited John, founder, and CEO of Cliffhanger Solutions, to present at their European Grid Solutions Summit in Sorrento, Italy. Topic: The grid isn’t smart until you find an efficient way to analyze its vast amounts of data. Day: Wednesday, April 20th Time: 9:00am Location: Tritone Room Track: Utility & Mobility Track In this engaging presentation, [...]
Like this article? Share it! Tweet Lots of talk last week about the "smart grid" and "big data." The smart grid, or electricity network that uses digital communications technology to detect and react to local changes in usage, using computer-based remote control and automation. A large number of smart devices and sensors capture data points from [...]
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.
