Main Roads WA has ordered additional F5m rugged tablet PCs from Xplore Technologies to simplify the oversight of the state’s roads and to enforce transportation standards.
Main Roads uses the tablets in the planning, construction and maintenance of an integrated and efficient road network that spans more than 2.5 million square kilometres in Western Australia, with road inspectors using the vehicle-mounted Xplore F5m tablet to retrieve asset information and access GIS systems for the real-time recording and tracking of maintenance issues and new project requirements.
“Main Roads WA is not just responsible for managing more than $41 billion road assets in Western Australia, they are required to maintain one of the most widely geographically distributed highway and main road networks in the world,” says Brett Gross, ANZ director of Xplore.
“The Xplore F5m rugged tablet enables their field teams stay completely connected to their network, and each other, at all times despite the physical disparity of their job sites. This has led to significant productivity gains and cost savings over the last five years.”
{loadposition peter}Main Roads WA first deployed F5m tablets in 2012 as part of a custom-tailored, in-vehicle mounted solution that was designed in collaboration with Xplore’s solution architects and Datanet, the Xplore partner also fulfilling this current order.