Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014 ~ 1 ~ The Road inventory App to support visual road inventory’s with a smartphone The Road Inventory app for android smartphones registers ocular input of the road in real time. It saves the condition in 5 levels of a certain defect or parameter you have dialed in. Data is saved every second and the app use the Androids GPS to add Longitude, Latitude, Speed and Altitude of the data. You have available a catalogue of over 100 parameters ranging from average road condition to detailed cracking inventory´s, and from earth roads and some basic iRAP parameters. The collected data is uploaded to a web service described in a separate user guide. The huge benefits with the Road Inventory app compared to pen and paper is: - Saves lots of time and increase security of field work! You don’t have to stop along the road and check where you are and take notes – you just drive along and make the registrations on the fly. - It saves even more time back at your office! You just upload your data and it is all there at your desktop. No need of interpretation of notes. - More detailed. Normally you note the average state in 100 meter sections, with the Road Inventory app you can note differences every second (every 10 meter in 36 km/h). - Powerful and immediate visualization on maps. View collected layers in the web tool. - Export as .txt files in 20-200 meter segments for direct import to HDM4 or other RMMS. The Road inventory app is easy to use and highly portable - bring anywhere and run on battery for many hours. Its also durable - and there is no expensive o rare spare parts.
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Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014
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The Road inventory App to support visual road inventory’s with a smartphone
The Road Inventory app for android smartphones registers ocular input of the road in real
time. It saves the condition in 5 levels of a certain defect or parameter you have dialed in.
Data is saved every second and the app use the Androids GPS to add Longitude, Latitude,
Speed and Altitude of the data.
You have available a catalogue of over 100 parameters ranging from average road condition
to detailed cracking inventory´s, and from earth roads and some basic iRAP parameters. The
collected data is uploaded to a web service described in a separate user guide.
The huge benefits with the Road Inventory app compared to pen and paper is:
- Saves lots of time and increase security of field work! You don’t have to stop along the road and
check where you are and take notes – you just drive along and make the registrations on the fly.
- It saves even more time back at your office! You just upload your data and it is all there at your
desktop. No need of interpretation of notes.
- More detailed. Normally you note the average state in 100 meter sections, with the Road
Inventory app you can note differences every second (every 10 meter in 36 km/h).
- Powerful and immediate visualization on maps. View collected layers in the web tool.
- Export as .txt files in 20-200 meter segments for direct import to HDM4 or other RMMS.
The Road inventory app is easy to use and highly portable - bring anywhere and run on battery for
many hours. Its also durable - and there is no expensive o rare spare parts.
Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014
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Introduction Use an android smartphone or tab with OS greater than 4.x. Download the installation file at [PM us
for download location].
NOTE: You need to email us your units IMEI-number or MAC-adress to get registered and import your
data. And you need to get a user login to the Road Data Management System at www.roadroid.com
to access your data.
This user guide assumes basic knowledge of Android phones and operating system. Please advise your phones user guide or tutorials if you are unsure of Android operating system. Please use following documents for information you cannot find here:
1) Essential guide - covering the principles of the Roadroid roughness data collection (IRI) app and the internet based Road Data Management System (RDMS).
2) The reference project sheet to learn more about the system at whole, some reference projects/user cases and a short history of Roadroid company.
3) User guide for RDMS (still under work dec 2014). Documents should be found at www.roadroid.com, and please also find our updates at: - Linked in: www.linkedin.com/company/roadroid - Twitter: www.twitter.com/roadroid - Facebook: www.facebook.com/roadroid - Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LarsForslf/presentations