Exaktime, the only company to offer 3 proven workforce management solutions that work at any jobsite to bring employee and contractor start and finish times back into the office removing all manual time sheets have released SiteHub at World of Concrete 2015.

Instant Job Site Oversight

Accessible via the ExakTime Mobile app, SiteHub provides you with an instant, bird’s-eye view of everything that’s happening at your job sites. You can choose to view the site that’s nearest you or any of your current work sites.

Scrollable Live Feed

When you open SiteHub, information from the job site fills the screen of your smartphone or tablet, including a scrollable live feed of real-time clock-ins and clock-outs, Field Notes, and equipment or materials updates.

Workers, Costs & Weather

SiteHub displays a list of all workers clocked in at the site, and a helpful budgeting aid shows you the hourly labor cost for the site. The National Weather forecast* and alerts for the area are visible as well as relevant local information.

With SiteHub, better workforce management and peace of mind are just a few taps away.

*weather currently not available in Australia, New Zea,and or PNG

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With all these new smart devices out in the field our single biggest issue behind battery power is the protection of the smart device itself. I have a 22-year-old son who washes boats for living and has gone through more phones in the past couple of years than I’ve had in my lifetime, I hope he reads this blog. As more smart devices have been released companies have come along and invented ways to protect the device.

Another project that I have worked on recently involving almost a hundred smart devices had a situation where too many devices were having the front screen smashed or cracked. The customer requested a solution so we went searching the Internet for shatterproof protective covers for smartphones. These protective covers started at around $45 each and were as much as $100 each, with the cost of smart phones anywhere from a couple of hundred dollars to $1000 investing in a protective cover can be a small insurance policy price to pay.

I will list some of my favourites below and welcome your feedback on any other devices that you find or are using to protect your smart devices out in the field.

Otterbox Cases

Otterbox smart device protective cases are the case of choice for USA and Canadian JobClock customers, they now ship to Australia and New Zealand.

The Otterbox website says….
Starting with something as simple as a box, OtterBox was created in 1998 and built upon fundamentals of hard work, creativity and perseverance. Our cases are dedicated to all the klutzy, spontaneous, chaotic, graceless individuals who have broken a device or valuable due to their active lifestyle and like our customers, we’ve been there too!

Camouflage back                                                                                                       Functional front

Tough and waterproof

AMZER Shattterproof – this is hot!

AMZER ShatterProof Screen Protector is super thin urethane film at only 0.2 mm thick, ShatterProof certified by the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) having passed D1004 Tear Strength, D2240 Hardness and D4329 UV Light Discoloration Tests. The protector is scratch resistant, stress resistant, drop resistant and a has special self healing capability with dissipative functioning embodied – it is virtually indestructible making your device unbreakable!

Watch an amazing video here on the AMZER Shatterproof protective cover including hammers, power tools, grinders and more.

 Gumdrop Marine & Industry Cases

iPads are being used in more and more Marine and Industry applications. There are few environments more inhospitable to electronic devices than the active marine environment or construction job site.

From government and industry to individuals with active lifestyles, Gumdrop has answered the requests of its customers who are using iPads equipped with navigation, weather and monitoring apps by providing a weatherproof rugged enclosure that will dependably stand watch.

The Gumdrop Marine Series for iPad Air features a weather-tight enclosure that clicks and locks into an optional robust quick-release mount.

The PocketClock app allows easy collection of employee and contractor start and finish times on the job and against cost codes or activities. Get your employees and contractors start and finish times live back into your office and throw away the time sheets for ever.

The JobClock system allows companies to move away from manual time sheets into electronic time and attendance improving every apsect of the process including employee time collection, employee time collection from remote locations, employee time collection from multiple locations culminating in the centralising of all of your employee data giving you access to instant reports on employee labour and jobsite profitability.

The Location Executive Summary report lets you monitor how many total hours are being spent at each of your job sites over a week, so you can take action if the hours on a particular project seem excessive.

Other standard reports include…….

• employee executive summary
• expenses by employee
• cost code by employee
• cost code by location
• employee approaching overtime
• employee time card by week (most popular)
• equipment by employee
• equipment by location and many more

Extract the data out into excel or integrate with the SQL database into your existing job costing or payroll systems.

Existing JobClock customers have known for years the JobClock system is the ultimate employee time keeping solution for remote locations. The JobClock system has 2 ways to collect data both without internet and both without telephone. Of course in any remote location to go electronic you will eventually need access to internet or telephone if you want to push the data back to a centralised location. I will run through some recent scenarios below.

Scenario 1 – The job site is in a place where the internet and 3G or 4G coverage is intermittent. Any cloud only time and attendance software will fail as the internet just drops off constantly.

Scenario 2 – The job is miles from anywhere, the workers are staying at a local pub and drive 90 minutes to the jobsite and back each day. By the time the employees get to the work site they have no internet and no telephone service. Only way to communicate is back at the local pub each night.

Scenario 3 – The job site is so remote a site shed with beds is taken to location, the workers work through the week only coming away from the job site each weekend.

We have 2 ways to collect the data

JobClock Hardware

The JobClock hardware can go onto any long term job site. The device is weather proof, can be chained to a fence or site shed.

Collection Method

Any supervisor or manager can stand in front of the JobClock hardware and collect the data with a blue tooth phone. You can then drive back to the local hotel, main office, remote office or nearest place where you have 3G or 4G coverage including any free wifi locations to send the data back to the office.

PocketClock App

The PocketClock app loads onto any iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry Smart Phone. This is one of the rare apps on the market for employee time collection that actually works offline. Nearly all cloud solutions fail when the internet is lost or not available.

The PocketClock app will hold all the data being collected until you can give the device to the nearest wifi, internet, 3G or 4G connection.

Collection Method

Any supervisor or manager can push the data back to the office at the end of each day, week, fortnight or month when near a wifi, internet, 3G or 4G connection.

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