WRA Engineering uses environmental scientists to conduct regulatory assessments and ensure native vegetation meets permit criteria in a Florida wetlands construction zone. Scientists take over 1,200 quarterly photos across 80 locations, facing north, south, east, and west. Filios' mobile app automatically assigns location and direction metadata, and its web platform allows sorting and reviewing photos. Filios updated its platform within a week to enable sorting by description, saving WRA 16+ hours of work per project and reducing costs by an estimated 50%.

1. WRAEngineering,a Filiocustomer,employsa team ofenvironmentalscientiststo executeregulatory
assessmentsforlanddevelopment.Theseevaluationsareoftenconductedas mitigationfor
constructionprojects,as environmentalprotocolsrequireconstructioncompaniestorestorea certain
percentageofvegetation.Onesuchprojectensuresthenativevegetationinhabitinga Floridawetlands
constructionzonemeetsthecriteriaestablishedinthedevelopment’sconstructionpermit.
Trackingthezone’splantliferequirestaking aphotographicinventoryofallvegetationwithinthearea
ona quarterlybasis.Inthiscase,an environmentalscientistis responsiblefortakingphotographsat 80
differentphotolocations– andphotosfacingnorth,south,east,andwestmustbecapturedat each
location.Whenphotosarecompiledat theendoftheyear,thescientistmust inventory,order,and
reportonmorethan1,200 photosofplants–manyofwhichlookthesame!
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2. UsingFilio,WRA’senvironmentalscientiststakephotosandvideosusingthecamera builtintotheFiliosmartphone
app.Themobileappautomaticallyassigns a geolocationandmeasuresthedirectionofeachphotowhileallowing
userstoaddvoicenotesandmarkuptheimages.SinceFilioinstantaneouslysyncsphotostothecloud,team
membersintheofficecanreviewinformationvia a correspondingwebplatformas fieldcrewscollectonsiteproject
data.Inthewebplatform,userscanorganizephotosintodedicatedprojects,making images standardizedand
searchableforsubsequentediting,filtering,reporting,andpresentation.
WhenWRAfirstdeployedFiliointheirwetlandsmonitoringproject,theappenabledrichdata collectioninthefield,
buttheusersstillfacedanenormouschallenge.Theprojectincludedmorethan1,200 photosofsimilartreesand
landscapes,making itextremelydifficultfortheWRAteamtodifferentiatebetweenimages withintheproject.Filio
originallysortedimagesbydate,whichwassufficientforsmallerphotocollections,butdidnotsufficeforthewetlands
survey’senormousdocumentlibrary.
FilioandWRAdiscussedtheissueonaconferencecall andidentifiedthesolution:thewebplatformneededa sort-by-
descriptionfeature.Withinsevendays,theFilioteamupdatedtheprogramtoenabledocumentsortingusinganyfield:
notonlydate,butalso name,description,andgeolocation.
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softwarestoreach
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achieveson itsown.
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timesavingfactor. I
useFilio everytime
I’min thefield.”
– WRA scientist
WRAscientistscan hoverovera thumbnailofanyimageinthephotologtoviewthename,accompanyingdescription,andcoordinates.Withthis
capabilityat theirfingertips,theWRAteamcan easilyidentifycriticalinformationabouteachphoto(suchaswhichcardinaldirectionitfaces).Thefeature
turneda multi-daysortingprocessintoa simpleclickandisnowavailableto Filiocustomerseverywhere.
Thenew photosortingfeaturesavedWRA 16+ hoursof
labortime forthe wetlandsmonitoringprojectalone
Using Filioreducedcostsbilledto the photolog
projectby anestimated50%
TheFilioupgradetookunder
oneweek, enablingan enhanceduserexperience
withoutlosingtime onthe project
PriortoimplementingFilio,a WRAscientistwouldtake a pictureorvideousinga camera rollapp,manuallymarkGPSlocationsonindividualphotosin a
separateglobalpositioningsystem(GPS),andfinallycreatea map ina geographicinformationsystem(GIS).Filioachievesallthreeofthesefunctions,
streamliningWRA’sphotomanagementprocessfromthreesoftwarestoone.
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