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DOB To Track Inspectors With GPS

NEW YORK CITY-The technology, installed in the inspectors' department-issued phones will supply their location at all times on the job.

By Cody Lyon | Updated on August 28, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-The New York City Department of Buildings says it will begin tracking the whereabouts of its 379 inspectors with Global Positioning Technology or GPS. According to a statement, starting on Monday, the Department start following the first group of its inspectors through the use of the new GPS technology installed in Department issued cell phones. The department says the new program will help supervisors identify the closest inspectors to assign to emergency incidents and pinpoint the location of an inspector if he or she loses contact with a supervisor.

DOB adds that by the end of September, the routes of all construction inspectors, as well as the inspectors of boilers, cranes and derricks, electrical, elevators and plumbing units will be monitored through their cell phones, helping ensure the integrity of building inspections and employee safety.

The new GPS tracking system uses a web-based system where inspection unit heads will be able to monitor the real time movements of their inspectors from a computer at their work-stations or any computer for that matter. The unit heads will get a password to access the system. Daily routes of inspectors will be ‘electronically recorded and stored’ in a department database.

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