SAM IS® provides state governments and regional authorities with a way to monitor multiple assets across its various regions—and from the central office or the districts. The centralized data provides all users across the state with the same information. You can update a bridge asset in one location and all users can see the change instantaneously. The same is true for updates to the solution interface and capabilities, too—updates disseminated to supervisors, field crews, and inspectors are visible to all at the same time. This standardization also aids with reporting back to the central office, since all reports, data, and maintenance requests are formatted in the same way. This helps everyone understand the available information, and it makes compiling data about diverse assets into a comprehensive statewide document easy. Whether you work with pavement, bridges, stormwater, signs, or any other asset, let SAM IS® help.
The SAM IS® solution is built on our decades of experience working with towns and cities. The result is an easily implementable, end-to-end asset management tool for our municipal partners—a tool powerful enough to provide useful analysis, and one robust enough to cover multiple asset types. We understand that asset management involves the efficient and effective maintenance of ALL types of assets: pavement, sidewalk, signs, and more. For this reason, SAM IS® more than just the collection and analysis of the physical infrastructure asset’s location and condition. It is designed to help answer questions and solve problems municipalities deal with on a daily basis, from communication to operating and maintaining transportation management systems.
Effective smart communities—also known as “smart cities”—connect people with the information and technology needed for an improved quality of life, more innovation, and enhanced decision-making. As a result, smart communities also need a smart asset management system—one that can be used to support initiatives related to infrastructure, software applications, data, citizens, and communication focused on sustainability, efficiency, and transparency. SAM IS® does precisely this. With this tool, any community can be a smarter one.
Universities and institutions face similar issues as municipalities. One of these challenges is where and how best to spend the next infrastructure dollar. Understanding the inventory and assets maintained is the first step—managing those assets is next. SAM IS® can help here as well. SAM IS® brings decision-making and monitoring capabilities to your campus. It allows you to manage multiple asset types throughout the academic year, while creating a schedule for capital improvements during the summer construction period. SAM IS® can be used to help institutions address specific issues—ADA compliance, for instance—while also incorporating enhancements into their larger improvement programs. Additionally, maintenance crews and facilities staff can update information and input maintenance and repair records directly to the database, limiting the risk of lost paperwork or incomplete tasks.
Like public agencies, private industry must also determine the best way to manage infrastructure assets. SAM IS® can be used to help understand improvement needs for bridges and roads, job sites or production facilities. It can be used to review maintenance needs at multiple facility sites around the state, region, or nation—or consolidate reporting for stormwater across locations into a comprehensive document. With SAM IS®, all of this is possible—along with the ability to integrate functionality into existing systems, so your workflow and processes are never dramatically altered.
