Onstation, a mobile app that allows road construction crews to easily locate people, assets and physical conditions, is gaining traction on projects throughout the U.S. The app’s maker, PROJiTECH, raised $1.4 million in a seed funding round this summer.

Developed in 2014 by a former Ohio Dept. of Transportation engineer, OnStation helps project members visualize key aspects of a roadway site such as rights-of-way, signage, utilities, drainage and pavement markings. It can record and organize project discussions and documents; provide instant access to current contract documents; and let users annotate entries with text, images and mark-ups, along with date, time and location stamps for anything seen on site.

OnStation的最新版本将包括状态wide linear reference systems, mile marker readouts for all primary Interstate and state roads, and latitude and longitude information, says Jake Bailosky, the app’s creator and founder and CTO of PROJiTECH. “We’re also taking a new approach to managing data. We want to have it organized in the app and the cloud so it can be used, referenced later and exported in the form of reports.”

贝洛斯基（Bailosky）担任现场工程师已有10年的时间，从头到尾管理建筑。他说：“在此过程中，我一直在寻找新的想法。”关于他的现场经验，“没有太多的解决方案 - 基于位置和移动开发的生产力工具是我希望在那里拥有的工具。”他自学如何开发一个应用程序来满足需求。第一个版本引入了StationFinder，该版本利用GIS在对齐方式上创建自动标记器查找器。

JumpStart Cleveland, a venture capital investor, helped get the startup going, and entrepreneur Patrick Russo became CEO in 2018. “Since then we’ve grown to a team of ten, with 1,200 active users, 200 projects, and 40 organizations,” Russo says. According to Indianapolis-based VisionTech Angels, which invested $575,000 in OnStation this June, the app is being used in 23 states.

Chris Nies, director of construction services for CORRE Inc., a Madison, Wis.-based contractor, says the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation bought licenses for the app for use on the 45-mile Interstate 39-90 expansion project.

“在我们的十英里走廊上，该应用程序非常有用，” Corre项目经理Dean Sperstad说。例如，在测试混凝土样品时，“插座使记录我们在哪个站点的速度更快。”

After being introduced to it, CORRE purchased 35 licenses this year. “Basically, if the app would be useful for the project and our employees want to use the app, we wanted them to have it,” says Nies. “In our case, licenses are transferable between staff, so as projects wrap up or as interns go back to school, we are able to move licenses from staff to staff to get the most out of each one.”

Nies补充说，用户可以为每个许可证添加尽可能多的项新利18备用网址目。“我们有一个项目，新利18备用网址仅在2021年的施工季节就可以访问该应用程序超过4000次。每次访问应用程序时，您都会节省时间，并允许用户更有效地工作。”

Britley Platfoot, project manager with Milestone Contractors, is using OnStation on a project to reconstruct U.S. 27 through downtown Richmond, Indiana. “If I see an unmarked utility or a pothole, I can take a pic, write notes—keep track of where everything is,” she says. The 1.5-mile stretch of road is congested with traffic and utilities, and the app “is great for that,” says Platfoot. “I believe there’s a need for it, and the requests will be there.”