It is difficult not to be caught up in the excitement regarding tablet computing. These devices are dependent upon a wireless network and wireless providers have responded by increased bandwidth, speed and improved connectivity.  The increased adoption of wireless connectivity has evolved more competitive data plans and cheaper devices but before you buy, consider the topography of your community and adjust for dead zones with WiFi hot spots.  Determine what will be your acceptable “dead zone” level and then test drive some tablets.

Toronto Fire Services needed to measure the number of inspections completed and the time it took to complete department tasks like report writing, what types of occupancies were not being inspected, what tasks were overdue.   One Step coded an effective feature that measured multiple metrics and  then aggregated and displayed them in multiple dashboard views.  These Key Performance Indicators are used to allocate resources and greatly assist in future planning.

Prevention officers and engine companies perform thousands of fire safety and code enforcement inspections using One Step. One Step data will reveal department wide measures plus users can drill down through divisions, city districts to individual performance measures. Dashboard metrics are easily filtered to create reports that can be downloaded and shared as necessary.