Capture poles, spans and pedestals in the field with no signal. Review and correct in the office. Export in the format your client actually asked for.
The problem
Most field tools ship with a fixed set of fields, statuses and vocabulary. When the job doesn't match, the crew works around the software — and the workaround becomes the process.
Poles don't stand next to cell towers. Tools that assume a connection either stop the crew until they find one, or quietly lose what was captured while there wasn't.
Exports time out on a big job, or arrive in the one format your client didn't ask for. The data you paid a crew to collect ends up harder to hand off than it was to gather.
What it does
In the field
Map-first. A crew sees their work on a map, taps a location and fills in the form. Capture, photograph and edit with no signal; it syncs the moment there is one. Nothing is lost if the app is killed or the phone reboots.
Your workflow
Define the survey yourself in a visual builder: the fields, their types, which are required, and how records group into layers — poles, spans, pedestals, each with its own geometry. Review workflows are yours too: the statuses, and who is allowed to move a record between them.
In the office
A three-pane review tool — a list, a map and the record detail side by side. Work through a day's captures, look at the photographs, correct in place, approve or reject from the keyboard, and sign off with a note.
OptionalFor jobs that need more precision than a phone can give, a GNSS and laser attachment is available as an option. WAKE is built to work without it.
Photographs
A photograph is only worth as much as what you can prove about it. WAKE records the context with the image, so a record still stands up months later when someone asks where a number came from.
GPS position recorded at the shutter, with honest provenance — including how good the fix actually was.
Timestamped on capture, not on upload. A photo taken in the field on Tuesday reads as Tuesday.
Full camera metadata and a snapshot of the device orientation at the moment the shutter fired.
A tamper-evident chain of custody follows each photograph from the phone through to the export.
Getting your data out
The formats your clients actually ask for, all generated from the same survey. Pick the one they want, or take all of them.
Images are packaged with the export and named so each one matches its record. Nobody has to reconcile a folder of photos against a spreadsheet afterwards.
A QGIS project file ships alongside the data, so the survey opens with the photographs already attached to each record.
The Google Earth export has the photographs packaged inside the file. It opens with no internet, and nothing in it points at a link that could expire.
ArcGIS users get a File Geodatabase, with step-by-step instructions included in the archive.
A large job does not die in a browser request. Start the export, close the tab, and collect the file later from a downloads page.
Exports can run on a schedule, or fire the moment a record is approved — so the client gets the data without anyone remembering to send it.
Live connectionRather not export a file every time? Point QGIS straight at the data and it refreshes as crews sync.
Your data
Pull all of it back out whenever you want, in the same formats your clients already work in. Nothing ends up locked in a file only we can open, and you are never waiting on us to get at your own records.
Who it's for
You are stringing new fiber across a pole network somebody else owns, and every pole has to be surveyed before anything gets attached.
You do the make-ready survey and design work, on other people's schedules, in formats each client specifies differently.
You own the poles and need your own attachment records — accurate, current, and not dependent on whoever surveyed them last.
Make-ready is the first survey template WAKE ships, not the limit of it. The data model underneath is general — if your crews collect something else in the field, it will hold that too.
Managed service
Not everyone wants software. If what you actually need is the data, WAKE runs the job end to end — crews in the field, the make-ready analysis, the pole applications, and the finished package in the format your client asked for. You get the deliverable.
Get in touch
WAKE is in use on live survey work. Tell us about the job — what needs surveying, how your client wants it back, and roughly how much of it there is. Say whether you want the software or the whole thing run for you, and we will come back to you with pricing and a walkthrough.
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