After two years of development work, Squarerigger Software announced the release of its Revolution tire management system, says Ed Cooper, president of the fleet maintenance management software provider based in the Seattle region.
Revolution was designed to be a stand alone product that will supplement any fleet maintenance management system. Revolution utilizes mobile and server-based software; wireless hand held PCs; and electronic data collection methods to eliminate paper from the tire tracking process for commercial and private fleets.
The company highly recommends that fleets who use the Revolution system deploy the software on Motorola 5590 mobile wireless handheld PCs to increase the accuracy and speed of gathering tire data, Cooper says. Fleets can purchase the Motorola computers from Squarerigger.
When performing tire inspections, a technician enters data using a mobile application called Inspector. The size, spec, and brand of each tire and the tire “footprint” of each vehicle have already been entered into the mobile software. If this data has not been entered previous to the inspection, the technician uses drop-down lists to ensure the data entry is kept standard, Cooper says.
Inspector leads the technician to each tire on a vehicle in a natural progression. For each tire, a technician captures tire tread depth (outside, middle and inside), serial number and air pressure. Technicians do not have to enter any of this data manually as they move from tire to tire.
While carrying the handheld in his belt holster, a technician can use Bluetooth-enabled “quick check” probes to capture both tread depth and air pressure. He can also select tire damage codes from drop-down lists, such as “brake skid damage” or “excessive wear” that are based on VMRS standards.
The tire inspection data is then instantly transferred to the Revolution server database through Wi-Fi communications.
