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Advances in smartphone technologies have enabled GIS to be taken into the field as digital maps providing field access to enterprise geographic information. Organizations can add real time information to their database and applications, speeding up analysis, display, and decision making by using up-to-date, more accurate spatial data.

Firefighters, police officers, engineering crews, surveyors, utility workers, soldiers, census workers, field biologists, and others can use Freeance™ Mobile software to complete the following tasks:

  • Field Mapping — Create, edit, and use GIS data in the field.
  • Asset Inventories — Create and maintain an inventory of asset locations and attribute information.
  • Asset Maintenance — Update asset location and condition and schedule maintenance.
  • Inspections — Maintain digital records and locations of field assets for legal code compliance and ticketing.
  • Incident Reporting — Document the location and circumstances of incidents and events for further action or reporting.

The results are:

  • Radical reduction in the number of call backs to the office for key information when in the field
  • Field workers create or complete a record which frees up office staff for other work.
  • Work is completed with fewer personnel at the time and location the work is performed
  • Immediacy of information enables organizations to take a proactive approach to solving problems
  • Assessments can be completed in fewer labor hours, saving both time and money.
  • Accuracy and timeliness of data is increased.

Streamline Communications and Operations Between the Field and Office

Managers, executives and project supervisors are able to follow a project's progress directly from their BlackBerry® smartphones using an interactive map service. Being able to visualize the changes in data on a GIS map illustrates the value add of their initiatives.

Having live data available to field crews and the ability to submit updates in near real-time will eventually become standard operations in day-to-day operations throughout organizations. The deployment of mobile GIS for one department will trigger orther departments within the organization to identify how mobile GIS could improve their workflow practices. The GIS is no longer thought of as a tool that supports another standalone business operation, but is recognized as an enterprise system that serves as a central repository of all spatially related data. As a result, users take a higher sense of ownership of the data as they are able to see how their input can improve both the GIS and enterprise databases.

Deployable Across an Organization Without Technology Overload

Using Freeance Mobile on BlackBerry as a mobile GIS solution gives field personnel access to the most current state of the GIS and enterprise databases with very little overhead or technology overload. BlackBerry smartphones can be used to view, query and collect data with minimal training. The Freeance Mobile solution is centrally administered making application changes effortless as it enables updates to be pushed out wirelessly. From a safety perspective, field personnel have a means of contacting the office in the event of an emergency or for general questions/concerns. Collecting images of assets, events, people and other features relative to their location lets office personnel visualize the real state as it exists in the field.

Freeance Mobile software can be easily deployed to field service forces across departmental boundaries. Designed as a multi-departmental, enterprise software solution, the configurable out-of-the-box Freeance Mobile software integrates with ESRI's ArcGIS® Server to provide central management and deployment of mobile GIS data, maps, tasks, and projects. Paired with the built-in capabilities of BlackBerry smartphones, productive uses of Freeance Mobile go beyond simple record lookup – extending into capture of digital photos tagged with location, push of Freeance Mobile device applications and even more features coming in the near future.

AVL Mapping Anywhere You Go

See your AVL vehicle tracking live on BlackBerry smartphones.

Freeance Mobile lets you to easily take your existing AVL system database and GIS maps and use them on your standard BlackBerry smartphones.Start accessing your AVL vehicle tracking when you need it most: in the field, on the go, virtually anywhere outside the office.

Freeance Mobile is proven solution, installed throughout the US and Canada, from large federal agencies, major metro governments to in the smallest towns all looking to increase efficiency of field service crews.

AVL vehicle tracking not implemented yet?

Let Freeance Mobile turn your BlackBerry smartphones into GPS AVL sending units. Freeance Mobile turns your BlackBerry smartphones into onboard vehicle tracking devices, using the BlackBerry built-in GPS or inexpensive Bluetooth GPS receivers.

Freeance Mobile lets you use live AVL GIS maps on BlackBerry smartphones, and see the location of other crews and vehicles right in your vehicle.