About Us
One step Story
In 2002 approximately 9% of the world’s population was plugged into the internet. Today it is 1 person in 3. In One Step’s beginning, the average user spent about 45 minutes per day on the web.
In 2002 when users thought of mobile devices they thought of Palm pilots. Sophisticated in their day with an infrared port, backlight display and flash memory powered by triple A batteries, owners were provided a calendar and a contact list. At the time, Microsoft only offered Windows CE, a mobile platform that could host a database; a feature absent in Palm and other competitors.
Today we spend over 4 hours per day and more if we work via the internet.
Ten years ago if you could find a song to download, it took over 12.5 minutes to retrieve; today a song can be yours in a few seconds
The Challenge
Most of our clients had asked us if our software was compatible with Palm and when we said we used Windows CE, they often did not understand the technologies to consider using our software.
In 2002 we recognized that mobile computing could provide significant advantages in data computing.
Field data collection mostly relied on clipboards and paper files, which were often stored and forgotten. We believed that digital collection would simplify management and ensure data integrity for easy reporting. Users could, for the first time, quickly analyze results, define workloads, and generate meaningful reports.
Fire departments quickly saw the benefits of One Step’s software for fire prevention. Inspectors received their inspection lists, used One Step Mobile on laptops to record data, and synced it with the department’s server, eliminating clipboards and improving productivity for inspections and fire prevention tasks.
The Solution
Today, One Step is being used in both large and small fire departments throughout North America with inspectors working wirelessly to gather field data.
Departments can choose to have One Step data hosted in the cloud and significantly reduce their in house technical overhead or they can keep all the data and software on their internal web servers.
One Step uses a wireless connected tablet – be it with WiFi or cellular, the field worker reads and writes data directly to the database. The field data is instantly available to the rest of the department and new requests are instantly seen on the inspector’s screen. It is a totally different mobile world from 2002.