Connectivity shouldn’t curb your fieldwork capabilities. Engineered with advanced offline features, Fulcrum ensures uninterrupted productivity, even in the most remote locations. Here’s how our platform supports seamless field data collection and operations, no matter where your projects take you.
Reliable offline data collection
Since day one, Fulcrum has been designed to ensure you can collect and store data offline, eliminating the need for constant connectivity. Whether you’re entering text, capturing photos, recording videos, or gathering audio data, everything is securely saved within the app. When you reconnect, all your data automatically syncs without any loss, ensuring your information is always up to date. This foundational feature is built to safeguard your field data under any conditions, providing reliability and peace of mind.
Example
A team installing rural broadband infrastructure in isolated areas can still collect and store every site survey detail, installation photo, and configuration video. All the data is ready to sync seamlessly once they return to an area with connectivity.
Robust offline mapping capabilities
Fulcrum’s offline geospatial capabilities ensure you can easily navigate and collect data without internet dependency, enhancing operational efficiency across any location:
- Basemaps. Preloaded basemaps are always available to provide detailed geographical context, ensuring you have a reliable backdrop for your data collection wherever your work takes you.
- Feature service layers. Preload essential geospatial data, including geometries and other attributes, to facilitate annotation and navigation without needing a live network connection.
- Offline location capture. Every geographical data point is recorded with precision, ensuring your assessments are accurate and verifiable.
Example
Utility workers use Fulcrum’s robust offline mapping capabilities while conducting infrastructure maintenance in remote areas. They access preloaded feature service layers containing detailed information about property lines, fences, and even landowner details to access property. This ensures they can efficiently navigate to the correct locations and perform their maintenance duties, all without needing an internet connection.
Empowering field teams with offline AI
As artificial intelligence technology evolves, so do Fulcrum’s AI capabilities. Some types of productivity-enhancing AI models can be deployed and used offline to enhance data quality and streamline workflows, including:
- Text extraction. Automatically capture critical data from images, like numbers on a utility pole’s identification plate.
- Face blurring. Simply check a box to automatically obscure faces in photos, ensuring privacy by making sure unblurred photos never leave the mobile device.
- Object recognition. Even without an internet connection, our platform supports customer-created custom AI models for object recognition, providing powerful tools for field analysis.
Example
During a routine inspection of remote utility poles, a utility worker uses Fulcrum’s offline AI to capture identification numbers from tags in photos. This streamlined process ensures accurate logging of pole conditions for maintenance records without needing an internet connection.
Versatile offline data events boost field efficiency
Data events are customizable triggers that automate and streamline a wide range of actions based on the data you collect. From calculating values, adjusting forms based on input, to issuing alerts if conditions change, data events adapt to fit your specific operational needs, ensuring productivity even in disconnected environments.
Example
In remote regions, workers conducting electrical substation inspections use a Fulcrum app with an integrated timer data event. When they start an inspection, the app automatically begins timing the session, facilitating precise billing and timesheet entries. This setup also helps identify areas for productivity improvement, useful for mentoring — all seamlessly managed offline.
User-generated documentation at your fingertips
Fulcrum allows teams to upload documentation, providing on-the-spot guidance for team members. This feature is particularly valuable for onboarding new employees, offering everything from SOPs to reference photos to safety guidelines, all directly accessible within the app.
Example
During confined space inspections of sewer pipes, safety is paramount. Field teams can access detailed safety protocols, step-by-step inspection guidelines, and emergency procedures created by seasoned engineers. This ensures that even in the most challenging environments, they perform their duties safely and effectively, guided by clear, user-generated content, even when offline.
Conclusion
Fulcrum sets the industry standard with its offline capabilities, ensuring productivity continues uninterrupted, regardless of network connectivity. Specifically engineered for efficiency in any setting, Fulcrum allows for seamless data collection and analysis. With tools designed for robust performance under any conditions, Fulcrum supports high data integrity and operational continuity, making it the ideal choice for field professionals who need to excel without constraints.
Keep your field ops connected — no internet needed
Do your field teams operate in locations where internet access isn’t available? No problem! Fulcrum’s robust offline capabilities ensure seamless data collection and analysis, wherever your work may take you. Contact us today for a free, no-obligation demo and see how we can keep your operations running smoothly, regardless of connectivity.