Episode 145: The winter app that isn't an app

About this episode

This episode showcases innovative maintenance professionals who developed a winter app for efficient storm response data collection.

On this episode were going to showcase the work of a couple of innovative maintenance professionals long time friend and listener, Phillip Anderle turned me on to at the last APWA Western Snow and Ice Conference. These two guys created a winter app for smart phones and tablets that makes gathering storm response data from the crews much easer and checks it for accuracy before it gets input into the Cities asset management system. District Supervisor Corey Rivera and equipment operator a...

People in this episode

Host: Rick Nelson

Topics covered

• winter operations
• storm response
• maintenance technology
• data accuracy
• asset management

Keywords

• winter app
• storm response data
• maintenance professionals
• asset management system
• APWA conference

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: APWA, Cities

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