HVAC Maintenance and Mobile Handheld PDAs
Access Heating & Air Conditioning came to my house today. Poor them...they did not realize that I work at MobileDataforce and we design, develop and deploy mobile handheld PDA HVAC software applications. They must think I am the most obnoxious customer they have ever had. "Using a paper form and clipboard I see." "Yep" "How do you know what job to do next?" "They tell me on the radio." "How many jobs do you do a day?" "As many as they tell me." "How do they tell you?" "I go to the office in the morning and they say - here and hand me a job." "What about jobs 2-7?" "I call them on a radio and say I am finished. They say about time now go here or there." "Do you ever need to review past work orders or maintenance forms?" "Yep - most of the time the customer has the last one duct taped to the side of the furnace." "If not?" "I call the office and ask