PinPoint GeoTech has announced that SCLaunch! will be making an investment in their company. Pinpoint has developed a mobile system for coordinating the work efforts of combined municipal agencies. Since sanitation workers are driving through neighborhoods already, why not have them tag other problems, automatically creating a work order so that the appropriate organization can address the problem? This means that as a truck drives through a neighborhood, a driver can see that a traffic light is out, press a few buttons on his GPS enabled gadget and let the city services dispatch send a crew to repair it. While that crew is out, the could spot debris while traveling on their route, press a few buttons, and sanitation can integrate that pickup into their work flow. It’s a bit like integrating Getting Things Done in city services. Every group has the opportunity to know what needs to be done when they are ready to work on it.
Pinpoint GeoTech was a 2007 Innovision Award Winner, and the company presented as an entrepreneur at Innoventure in 2008. In his Innoventure presentation, President Jim Oswald said that cities are reporting a 45% fuel savings in curbside debris pickup operations when the system is deployed. With diesel fuel prices well over $4 a gallon, there is a lot of natural interest in Pinpint GeoTech’s system.
