All articles from Adam Schmehl

Photo Management for Pole Data Collection

Adam Schmehl May 15, 2020

Your field crew collected 2,400 photos yesterday across 180 poles. They're sitting in camera memory cards and phone galleries right now, waiting to ...

Katapult Pro OTMR Applications (2010)

Adam Schmehl April 27, 2020

A few months ago, we wrote an article about how the Katapult Pro platform can be leveraged to improve the third-party and joint-use pole attachments ...

Katapult Pro's 4 Key Principles

Adam Schmehl April 20, 2020

The development of Katapult Pro began many years before our first client came on board and long before considered ourselves a software development ...

Leveraging One-Touch Make Ready For Pole Attachments

Adam Schmehl April 16, 2020

In our last article, we mentioned that most pole attachment applications have some degree of electrical make ready required, which typically means ...

One-Touch Make Ready Update (2020)

Adam Schmehl April 06, 2020

It's now April, which means that we've had almost a year of OTMR in FCC-regulated states. As many predicted, it hasn't been the silver bullet that ...

Katapult Pro's Four Guiding Philosophies

Adam Schmehl March 25, 2020

The development of Katapult Pro began many years before our first client came on board and long before considered ourselves a software development ...

Attachment Audits Using Katapult Pro

Adam Schmehl February 26, 2020

Attachment audits are an effective way to quickly true-up records and ensure that there are no exigent safety violations within a utility's ...

Katapult Pro Post-Construction Inspection Workflow

Adam Schmehl February 26, 2020

As we discussed before, post-construction inspections are a great way to ensure that the third-party attachments process leaves each pole in a ...

Adopting The Katapult Pro Workflow

Adam Schmehl February 19, 2020

One of the hardest parts of changing your field and office workflow is the initial cost of learning something new. It's not unique to our ...

Katapult Memories: 2019 Recap

Adam Schmehl January 07, 2020

As we start the beginning of the 2019 new year, we want to take a minute and reflect on some of the exciting events that took place over the past 12 ...

Run a Real Project Through the Platform

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