Remote Monitoring (Visual Digital)

Time is money, and having to travel from one location to another to keep abreast of physical progress, activities and deal with issues (real or potential), requires time and money.

With Thompson Technologies proprietary Remote Monitoring, you can visit each and every facility location in real-time without having to leave your office – be that at work or home. You can view all facility activity in real-time - live 24/7/365, accessible from any Internet connected desktop/laptop.

The Remote Monitoring netOptic solution with our proprietary camera based operating system, compression technology, and desktop application outputs images at an unheard of image size and frame rate - all using a standard and very economical DSL connection.

Our proprietary Remote Monitoring netOptic solution opens up new frontiers for improving facility and project management, along with time & cost avoidance by providing real-time accurate information, Remote Monitoring solutions and technologies allows our clients and staff to carry out and manage their jobs better, lower operation costs and increase profits and productivity.

Unlike other technologies that have a steep learning curve, are time-consuming to implement and never seem to delivery what was expected, Thompson Technologies delivers tangible solutions and benefits from day one.

That translates directly to faster schedules, better quality and lowered costs.

The Remote Monitoring solution allows you to:

• Keep abreast of location progress and activity in real-time – live, all day, every day
• Create and view an archive of all daily progress and activity using our “Look Back” feature
• Document and view critical events, progression and incidents 
• Keep abreast of real-time weather conditions & forecasts using the optional Environment Monitoring solution
• Enhance executive management, and sub-trade/contractor relations by allowing views to operations and project progression in real-time

Remote Monitoring is viewed through our proprietary desktop/laptop dashboard application. Thompson Technologies provides an unlimited supply of dashboard applications for installation to any user’s computer that you see fit. This way, you can provide the dashboard to whomever you wish – your executives, internal staff, sub-trades/contractors, etc. Therefore, when the need arises for remote conference calls or face-to-face status meetings, all participants can discuss and view real-time activity and Look Back with ease.

Our dashboard application software automatically captures snapshots on a scheduled basis (you decide the schedule), and stores these images on our video servers (located in our Dallas, TX data center). This way, progression snapshots for the life of the project are available with just a mouse click.

As an added benefit, the snapshots can be provided to internal staff, and sub-trades/contractors for use in written status reporting. The dashboard also provides visual motion detect, stop action freeze frame, and on demand snap shot capabilities.

BENEFITS

Project Level Benefits (when used for internal use)

• Review daily progress
• Visually confirm facility conditions
• Document work schedules and contract compliance
• Confirm facility activity against other reporting methods
• Monitor material movement and handling
• Hold others accountable for their actions on the facility
• Monitor facility weather conditions
• Monitor safety compliance
• Use images to resolve claims and disputes
• Document as-built conditions

Project Team Benefits (when used for external sub-trade/contractor use) 

• Improved facility and design coordination
• Improved understanding of the "big picture" (real facility status) among team members
• Reduced time-to-decision across the project team
• Better coordination between sub-trades/contractors
• Shared understanding of daily project status = less confusion and miscommunication
• Undisputable record of material deliveries and schedule milestones
• Daily accountability for work progress
• Less time wasted on project updates
• Reduced need for travel to jobsite / better project awareness between jobsite visits

Enterprise Benefits / Large Projects
Within large multiple department facilities communication between these groups can be fragmented. Thompson Technologies solutions and technology can significantly improve communication and time-to-action between various departments/groups.

• Delivers an on-demand, executive-level overview of facility status
• Less time spent compiling status reports for stakeholders
• Better decision making based on a more accurate daily views of facility status
• Efficiently meets the needs of different stakeholders:

• Executives
• Legal
• Design
• Construction
• Project Controls
• Facilities Mgt.
• Finance
• Purchasing
• Planning
• Safety

Enterprise Benefits / Multiple Facilities
When used across multiple facilities, the benefits of the Thompson Technologies solutions and technologies increase. On complicated multi-facility programs, our solutions can be used as a tool for management by exception. With real-time Remote Monitoring, managers can quickly develop a sixth sense about which projects are headed for trouble. Management can then deploy resources - earlier in the process - to intervene on problem projects. The ability to remotely observe real-time progress at any facility is a powerful addition to management's existing project controls tools.