AIRmobility.net
Wireless Field Labor Automation

To sustain growth and profitability, every business eventually comes to a point where automation can create a sustainable return on investment. Automation enhancements can impact any facet of an operation such as order entry, manufacturing or inventory control, to name a few. Field labor automation or workforce automation has become of high interest, given the lower trending cost of wireless technology (cellular phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) and its soaring capabilities. However, the challenges in turning commercial mobile devices into valuable field labor automation tools can be expensive. It can also be confusing, time-consuming and challenging involving multiple departments and multiple vendors to implement and support.

Westlake Software, Inc. specializes in the wireless automation of field labor or workforce automation with its services—AIRmobility.net^®. The company assists its customers in achieving the highest possible return on investment by combining its award-winning wireless enterprise platform with turn-key and custom development. This is measured operationally by lowering costs, driving productivity and increasing sales or customer service. “Our customers want to know what their people are doing, where they are doing it, how long they are doing it and when they are done,” begins Sean Crowley, President, Westlake Software. “We start with the client’s carrier and mobile devices and work through the entire field labor automation process. We do this to ensure that we can help our customers capture the most from their investment.” With an aim to help its customers be successful at every step of the process, Westlake Software designed AIRmobility.net^® to support a high level of proof of performance, which can generate actionable business intelligence for its users, and also enable advanced reporting and back-office integration—all as a system that is easy to administer and use.

“Our organization has automated with AIRmobility. net^® at all 38 US locations,” states Mike Porter, Senior Vice President of IT, Clear Channel Outdoor [NYSE:CCO].

“We recently surpassed the collection of over 3 Million photos and the collection of over 100 Million GPS coordinates in the management of our billboard installations. Our entire organization has been favorably impressed by the technology and has now automated our capital expenditure reporting, vehicle inspections, plant maintenance, bus shelter and news rack maintenance.” For Clear Channel, AIRmobility.net supports multiple make and model devices, multiple carriers, forms automation, bar coding, photo capture, GPS tracking, trigger and threshold alerts, Microsoft Excel and PDF reports, dashboards and multiple points of back-office integration.
“Currently, we have released a global module that enables organizations who sell multiple products across numerous countries the ability to track proof of performance, offer mobile training and content distribution, competitive tracking and translation capabilities,” states Crowley. Proof of performance often combines GPS tracking, photo capture, and compliance data. “The objective is to allow management to have visibility to all field activity without physically being there,” adds Crowley.

AIRmobility.net^® operates as a SaaS supporting Android, Windows 10+, Windows Phone, and iOS (Jan/2018). In most cases, the system can be configured for an evaluation period to allow customers to try the system in a live environment. Enter Windows Store and download AIRmobility.

Westlake empowers workforces with highly automated and affordable wireless solutions. Companies such as Sprint, Blue Cross, MGM Grand, Shell Oil, HealthNet, T-Mobile, State of California, and Providence Health Systems have automated with the technology generating over a billion transactions. With its technology used in over 60 countries around the world, Westlake has emerged as a leading field labor automation solution provider for some of the world’s largest companies.