1. CASE STUDY:
HisTREE.net
The Challenge:
With over 35 years of experience in landscaping and open space site
development, Histree.net founder Art Maat understands the challenges of
building and maintaining green spaces and outdoor sports facilities. In his
landscaping construction business, Wilco (www.wilco.ca), tracking, managing
and maintaining plants, outdoor furniture, equipment and infrastructure
Solution Overview: elements was time-consuming and complex. Across the industry, there was
no consistent method or technology to capture and share information.
Profile: Consequently, everyone from suppliers and contractors to park custodians
• isTREE.net is a unified
H and municipal workers faced obstacles and inefficiencies. Art recognized the
information management benefits that would come from a technology solution tailored to meet the
system for green and open needs of the green and open space industries.
space industries.
• eb-based and wireless
W The Solution:
solution provides asset and In 2010, Art launched HisTREE.net™, a web-based product that uses radio
inventory management, frequency identification (RFID) tags, wireless data collectors, GIS mapping and
software in the cloud to provide asset and inventory management, maintenance
maintenance monitoring,
scheduling and tree health monitoring capabilities. Rogers and technology
scheduling and trade processes. partner Trimble (www.trimble.com) worked together to provide the handheld
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w devices, which connect via the Rogers 4G high speed wireless network with the
cloud-based software, enabling data collection and GPS mapping.
“Through our direct relationship
with Rogers, we are able to Because on-site management and supervisory teams need access to asset and
offer a solution that meets all inventory information in the field, the HisTREE.net team worked with Rogers to
deploy a mobile app for iPhones® and iPads®. The app allows Wilco employees
our requirements, including
and other HisTREE.net customers to access the life history of a tree or other asset,
hardware, software, connectivity
view performed tasks, upload photos and comments and locate it on a map.
and flexible pricing. Rogers
helps us deliver to our customers Based on the success of HisTREE.net in the open space development industry,
the mobile asset management system is also being sold in other markets such as
a turnkey solution that is
oil and gas under the ArcSSet.net brand.
connected out-of-the-box and
provides a simple, consistent The Benefit:
experience for every user.” • ncreased Productivity: Workers no longer need to return to a computer or
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Art Maat, desk to capture, retrieve or update information, enabling them to complete
President, HisTREE.net tasks quickly.
• etter Information for Better Decision Making: With complete data records
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at their fingertips when and where they need it, field workers and managers
are more informed and better able to manage projects.
• dded Value: Mobilizing HisTREE.net on the Rogers network has enabled
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Wilco to better manage its business, resulting in high quality, efficiently
executed projects for its customers.
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