{"id":49302,"date":"2019-02-01T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=49302"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:04:48","slug":"navigating-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-inspections-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/navigating-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-inspections-with-ease","title":{"rendered":"Navigating to Hundreds of Thousands of Inspections with Ease"},"author":1312,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[401,10612],"tags":[18742,161432,671],"arcnews_issues":[25212],"class_list":["post-49302","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-navigator-for-arcgis","tag-inspections","tag-operations","tag-routing","arcnews_issues-spring-2018","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) is responsible for ensuring and maintaining the safety, health, and security of...","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p class=\"subheading\">Electrical Inspectors in Washington State Now Use Navigator for ArcGIS to Get from Place to Place<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":49312,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&amp;I) is responsible for ensuring and maintaining the safety, health, and security of workers all over Washington. The department assists employers in meeting health and safety standards and inspects workplaces when notified of hazards or potential dangers. With 19 offices throughout the state, the department employs approximately 2,800 people\u2014including safety inspectors, claims specialists, nurses, researchers, accountants, labor experts, and support staff.\r\n\r\nAnytime a resident or business in Washington installs electrical equipment or makes an upgrade to an electrical system, the local municipality or L&amp;I must inspect it. The department\u2019s 200 inspectors perform nearly 200,000 electrical inspections each year.\r\n\r\nIn an ongoing effort to develop more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/needs\/operational-efficiency\">efficient inspection workflows<\/a>, L&amp;I decided to have its electrical inspectors create their own customized travel routes. Navigator for ArcGIS became the centerpiece of this project because of its ability to route multiple stops and recalculate a route if something changes.\r\n\r\n\u201cBy making it easier and faster for our inspectors to drive from site to site, they will be able to more easily complete their daily inspections,\u201d said Winston McKenna, a GIS product administrator for L&amp;I. \u201cWe wanted to have a workflow and applications we could consistently count on being up-to-date and using the latest information for routing and geocoding.\u201d\r\n<h2>Creating Customized Routes<\/h2>\r\nMcKenna and his team developed an ArcGIS platform-based solution that incorporates geocoding, routing, and custom basemaps. Now, when someone submits an application for inspection through the department\u2019s website, the application is added to a SQL database and the address is geocoded. Electrical supervisors can then see the geocoded addresses displayed on their workstations, which they use to assign inspection locations to each inspector.\r\n\r\nOnce the inspectors see their assignments pop up on their laptops, they can create an optimized route for their day using a custom app that employs the ArcGIS Network Analyst extension and StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS, both in ArcGIS Enterprise. When their routes are planned, the inspectors save them as web links and then connect their department-issued iPhones to the planned route using Navigator.\r\n\r\n\u201cInformation in StreetMap Premium is well-organized, well-maintained, and consistent from release to release,\u201d said McKenna. \u201cUpdating the geocoding and routing service is a breeze, and there is minimal interruption.\u201d\r\n\r\nInspectors use Navigator on their iPhones to receive audible, turn-by-turn directions as they drive to each inspection stop. A custom L&amp;I basemap enables managers and inspectors to add, maintain, and update any information along inspectors\u2019 routes\u2014such as rural or forest roads, fuel stations, department offices, and regional boundaries. The team also created a map package that allows inspectors to use Navigator while offline in places with limited or no connectivity.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s the easiest, most time-efficient, and most process-efficient way to create customized routes,\u201d said McKenna. \u201cWe can adjust the settings to reflect the environment across the state\u2014for example, routes that involve taking a ferry or areas that are closed for parts of the year due to weather.\u201d\r\n<h2>More Dynamic Workflows<\/h2>\r\nWith Navigator now part of its daily operations, the department has a consistent view of its authoritative data on a navigation map that its users can customize and configure. It is easy to create and share efficient route plans, and L&amp;I has facilitated clearer communication between managers in the office and inspectors in the field. What\u2019s more, the department saves time and money because inspectors now drive fewer miles by sequencing stops in the most logical order and taking the surest route to their inspections.\r\n\r\n\u201cNavigator reduces unnecessary stops and will readjust the order to minimize the time and distance from location to location,\u201d said McKenna, who indicated that inspectors are showing a 1\u20133 percent increase in the number of inspections they complete. \u201cOur inspectors now have a dynamic navigation and visualization tool\u00a0<em>[that]<\/em>\u00a0allows them to adjust to changes in their workday responsibilities. If someone needs to cancel or delay their inspection, the inspector can make the change in Navigator for ArcGIS, and the app will account for that.\u201d\r\n\r\nFor more information on how the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries implemented Navigator into its daily workflows, email McKenna at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:winston.mckenna@lni.wa.gov\">winston.mckenna@lni.wa.gov<\/a>.\r\n"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Navigating to Hundreds of Thousands of Inspections with Ease | Spring 2018 | ArcNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&amp;I) is responsible for ensuring and maintaining the safety, health, and security of...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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