South Staffordshire Water has armed its field inspectors and network leakage control staff with mobile mapping and information systems from Procis Software. The Fujitsu pen-based systems, which interface to a central Procis geographical information system (GIS), will replace paper maps. The water utility has bought 24 mobile units so far at a cost of #150,000. Jay Mistry, networks and GIS manager at South Staffordshire Water, said the mobile system has 'enabled us to make significant cost savings'.
Water utility maps out future
Computing, 27 Jan 1999
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