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Located in Broward County, the City of Miramar is a residential community in the rapidly growing I-75 corridor between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Ranked in the top 10 fastest growing cities in the United States by the US Census Bureau, the City of Mirmar's population has soared by 28% since 2000. As the city's population reaches an all time high, so does new home construction in the area.

Staffed with 20 inspectors, the City of Miramar Community Development Building Division estimates they perform in excess of 350 inspections per day, occasionally having to rely on Broward County inspectors for help. In addition to the heavy field workload, inspectors spent, on average, several hours at the end of each day in the office bogged down with paperwork entering inspection result information into their back-office record keeping system. "As one of the fastest growing cities in Florida and in the US, we needed to find a way to increase the productivity of our inspectors and meet the growing demands of our building community," states Dan Ferstenberg, Planning IT Manager for the City of Miramar.

The City of Miramar soon began working with MobileHWY to implement Mobile INSPECTOR™, a mobile workforce solution designed for government agencies to help streamline the inspection process. Utilizing Mobile INSPECTOR™ on their BlackBerry® phones, city inspectors are able to access critical information in real-time from the field, complete their tasks, and transmit those results directly into the city's data system.

By automating these processes, city inspectors have been able to spend more time in the field each day performing inspections and less time in the office on administrative duties. "Mobile INSPECTOR™ has significantly increased our productivity. Now our inspectors have instant access to vital project information in the palm of their hand," states Dan Ferstenberg. "Mobile INSPECTOR™ is an inexpensive, easy to maintain system that required little to no overhead. We quickly have been able to reduce the amount of the time spent on paperwork each day by 50%. The hours we used to spend in the office each day on administrative tasks is now used out in the field serving our building community," states Dan Ferstenberg.

About MobileHWY
MobileHWY is a leading provider of mobile workforce solutions to the Government and Construction industries. The company's solutions, Mobile INSPECTOR™ and Mobile CONTRACTOR™, utilize the Internet and wireless mobile networks to help manage the day-to-day operations of organizations with dispersed mobile workforces. MobileHWY's products provide field personnel real-time access to information through end-to-end automated processes. MobileHWY is proud to include some of the United States' largest local government agencies and national homebuilders among its customer base. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, MobileHWY is a privately-held company employing over 25 people with offices across the U.S. For more information, visit www.mobilehwy.com.