OnSite data capture
Integrated mobile and office data capture, assurance and verification platform enabling efficient site work.
Without comprehensive, reliable data, businesses cannot make informed decisions. Risks often go undiscovered and interventions are often reactive or based on ‘what we’ve done before’ rather than what might actually be required.
Binnies has pioneered asset data capture methodologies through tailored in-house capture methodologies or by working with innovative industry leaders. The result is OnSite.
Whether it is undertaking the location verification of 30,000 assets for UK Power Networks or 4,000+ ecological surveys for HS2, Binnies’ OnSite application delivers efficiencies at every stage of the process.
By harnessing off-the-shelf applications and combining them with governance, experience and bespoke tools, the OnSite package can be tailored to meet any need and budget.
Work allocation
Site teams log on to the work allocation app using unique log-in details. Tasks are sent directly to each user along with pertinent information such as
- Date and time of expected completion
- Geographical location supplemented by background information, including the team’s location based on GPS data
- Historical notes
- Previous site photographs
- Access information.
Users can plan their tasks off-site, make better informed decisions while on-site and request support and additional information. Office teams can quickly change requirements and update site teams automatically.
Along with providing information, the allocation app also monitors a site team’s location and progress, thereby giving off-site personnel real-time updates of a task’s progress while providing health and safety reassurance.
Mobile data capture
Once ready to start a task, site teams can seamlessly switch to data capture using remotely created and administered custom forms. These forms can be as simple or complex as required and utilise any or all of the following tools:
- Automated inputs such as date, time and user logged in
- Standard inputs such as images, dropdowns and tick boxes
- Detailed geospatial capture, including mapping features using GPS tracking and geofencing
- Complex inputs such as the ability to annotate photographs and maps, and cascading dropdowns where the answer to one question determines the possible answers to another
- Automated validation, such as making fields mandatory, text verification and even location verification to ensure that the site team is completing the data capture within an agreed distance of their destination location.
All the capture tools aim to give OnSite users a streamlined process when capturing data while ensuring the highest quality of data.
Site work can be expensive. Our approach maximises the time spent on-site and eliminates revisits.
Progress monitoring
OnSite is cloud based and has progress monitoring at its core. Data are shared live from sites, thereby enabling project team members to view real-time progress. BI Dashboards report on every aspect of the project, from timeliness of submissions to completeness of individual questions. Any data or query based on a combination of data can be delivered in real time to the project team.
Data validation
Data validation is fundamental to OnSite. You can have the best technology and the most efficient process but if the data being gathered are incorrect there is little point in data collection. OnSite addresses data validation in four ways.
Data reporting
Once data have been signed off, they can be simply exported into any required format or copied directly into any existing database live or at intervals.
Key benefits
→ Clear and concise task information sent to and from site
→ Efficient data capture methodologies maximising the outputs from time on-site
→ Validated data maintained in a common data environment (CDE)
→ Built-in progress tracking covering everything from overall progress to individual question inputs
→ Site-team tracking and live response submission support health & safety monitoring
→ Capture better data at a low cost
Binnies is part of the RSK group of companies
The RSK group is a leading integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business offering bespoke end-to-end solutions to a variety of sectors. Headquartered in the UK but with an established presence throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, RSK helps organisations around the world achieve their business aspirations in a sustainable and efficient manner.
