INFRA - a path to rapid ROI

Moving advanced IT into environments and working places where the value of the goods handled per worker is very high is often a splendid investment. This is indeed the case in road construction blasting work when measuring of vibration, noise and pollution is required. A few percent increase in production value per employee results in much higher percent increase in overall profit. The payback for the IT investment can be as short as a couple of weeks.

Let's have a look at some profit generating factors:

• Technical consultancy companies in project planning and project engineering using INFRA can carry out advanced measuring tasks using their own staff. Measuring can be performed in compliance with legal standards without engaging specialists, thereby saving several Euros per man-hour.
• INFRA both measures and sends data automatically which eliminates the job of actively registering and handling information from the measuring points. A significant number of man-hours, even in medium sized projects can be used for purposes other than driving around and monitoring measurement instruments.
• Data transfer via GPRS instead if GSM means lower costs. If 10,000 measurement data messages sent by GSM costs 1,600 Euro, the same messages transferred by GPRS are just 115 Euro.
• INFRA sends alarms to the operators of excavators, drillers and other construction equipment when stipulated limits are close to being exceeded which can save money by avoiding costly penalties and the cost of alarming manually.
• INFRA can direct updated information to a public portal, thereby saving time when informing the public and other interested parties . Such an arrangement can also reduce costs for other types of customer service.
    

  Those "five points" can not only pay back the investment in INFRA in one single project, they can also add significantly to the bottom line regarding feed-back calculation. What they mean for your business is waiting to be calculated!

365/24 is mandatory for “secure ROI”
When purchasing a measurement system for use in dusty or mobile environments it is important not to be too stingy. For use in a tunnel, in arctic cold, on an exposed position subjected to extreme weather and electromagnetic emissions, an ultra rugged solution is the only justifiable alternative. In some applications, the components must also be safe around flammable gases or explosives and be able to withstand really tough handling.

A stoppage due to a crashed component will be expensive and perhaps might weaken overall confidence for the solution. A field monitoring system must not only be durable, it must also be extremely reliable and resistant to extreme radiation.