The Hot Future of Construction Mobility

Construction and engineering lead in mobile technology, with 78% as top priority!

At a recent event called “The Hot Future of Mobility and Telecom” presenters highlighted several key trends and important metrics in the mobility space of interest to AEC industry stakeholders. Here are six takeaways:

1. Mobile technology is a top priority for the [...]

CURT Construction Users Roundtable 2011: iPads for Construction

Can iPads change the game in the field for construction?

You use iPads at home and on the go in your personal life, but are iPads suitable in your business realm, in construction and out in the field at the job site? Are iPads useful in construction beyond personal (and potentially productive) applications for music, movies, [...]

The Power of Vela Systems and Verizon’s 4G LTE Network for Construction

It has been a number of months in the making, but the Verizon Construction video featuring Vela has been released!  Verizon is putting a full-court press (it is basketball playoff season) on bringing advances in field devices like iPads and Tablet PCs together with their 4G LTE MiFi cards, like the one in the screen [...]

Your iPad app for construction just got better

It’s been less than three weeks since, in a past article, I introduced the first construction application for the iPad. So much has changed already in that short time, such as:

Over 3 million iPads have been sold, making it by far the most popular device of its kind
Hundreds of people in the construction industry interested [...]

Did you buy an iPad or iPad 3G for your construction project?

Both the iPad and iPad 3G work great for lots of things you need to do on your construction project like tracking issues, accessing documents or running a QA/QC checklist. For $629.00, I bought the iPad 3G + WiFi.  Here’s what happened when I opened the box containing my iPad last week:

The box (left) is [...]