The Challenge
Mobile devices have limited battery power, even when attached to ruggedized kits providing additional back- up battery power and special scanners that don’t rely on a mobile phone’s power-hungry camera. Based on recent industry benchmark reports compiled from BuildingReports’ database - the largest of its kind in the world - an inspection can take over six hours to complete. Time is money and having to stop to recharge a mobile device is not only inefficient, but the costs for hourly downtime can be expensive.
There are also physical challenges, particularly in industrial and assembly occupancy types where high ceilings can make it difficult and sometimes impossible to scan devices, like smoke detectors, mounted out of reach or located in tight spaces. Clips can be used to attach mobile devices equipped with ScanSeries to extension poles to reach them, but this doesn't solve the problem of activating the camera or scanner from the ground. This also increases the risk of damaging or breaking these expensive devices if the pole is dropped or banged against a hard object.