TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT Caterpillar Inc. eRoutes App for Asphalt Paving This application for smartphones and the web allows paving contractors to track the location and productivity of haul trucks as they travel between the asphalt plant and jobsite. • Paving contractors can open up the app and quickly see where their trucks are and when they will arrive to a jobsite • Provides location tracking by placing devices at the plant and on the paver or material transfer vehicle that create a geofence at these locations • Trucks also outfitted with a small device that is constantly pinging its GPS location • Geofence devices enable you to instantly see when a truck enters or leaves the jobsite or asphalt plant • Geofencing functionality also eliminates the hassle of a paper ticket by logging them electronically instead ForConstructionPros. com/21003439
Tenna Construction Technology Platform The Tenna construction technology platform provides reliable tracking and a unified platform for mixed fleets, built on over 100 years of construction experience. • Uninterrupted visibility from the machinelevel to the project office and throughout your whole company • Supports your mixed asset classes on one system • single source of truth for managing • Heavy and mid-sized equipment to fleet vehicles, downto small tools and inventory for total visibility • Simple interface ForConstructionPros. com/21092144
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MINDS, Inc. PlantManager Dashboard The PlantManager gives plant owners a 30,000 ft bird’s eye view of your company's plants all in one powerful dashboard to help them spot issues at a glance and drill down into production and job data. • Multi-plant dashboard with all key numbers per location • Individual plant production details allow you to see real-time and historical of all production data like flow rate, tonnage, RAP, liquid asphalt & aggregate percentage and moisture, temperatures, deviations, etc. • Individual plant energy details measure current and historical energy consumption in KWh/T, BTUs/T, or Therms/T so plant owners can compare actual energy use with theoretical need based on mix and ambient temperatures, moisture and type of fuel ForConstructionPros.com/21117844
BOMAG Bomap Compaction Assistant
TRUX Contactless Ticketing Solution Trux Contactless Ticketing is a robust e-Ticketing solution that integrates sales orders and scale tickets directly into technology solutions for all participants in the material supply chain. • Allows contractors, dump truck drivers and material producers to safely and digitally record and track data from construction projects • Leverages unified digital dispatching, hauling and site contact load tracking and resolution software • Meets established requirements from the leading state DOTs across the country for digital ticketing
Bomap from BOMAG is the solution for the digital earthworks and asphalt construction site; it can be used to document work results on site in real time. • The app can be installed on standard Android tablets and smartphones and documents passes via GPS for every roller, regardless of make • The result can be exported as a PDF and shows the customer the compaction performance achieved on the construction site in a transparent and comprehensible way • For BOMAG rollers, the app can record additional readings and thus create documentation for continuous compaction control (CCC)
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Topcon Thermal Mapping System for Asphalt Paving The Thermal Mapper for asphalt paving is designed to monitor temperature segregation and easily provide accurate compliance reporting, all with real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning accuracy. • Provides a visualization to operators in real time of whether the mix falls within a pre-defined temperature range • Quickly tells operators if mix is stable or if moderate or severe temperature variation is occurring • Creates data reporting files to download for applications such as DOT compliance ForConstructionPros.com/21121074
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