Nunavut Housing Corporation Saves Time And Improves Inspection Efficiency With Mobile Solution

This Motion Computing case study takes a look at the Nunavut Housing Corporation (NHC) whose mandate as a Public Agency of the Government of Nunavut is to create, coordinate, and administer housing programs to provide fair access to a range of affordable housing options to families and individuals in Nunavut. The NHC manages 6,000 housing units throughout the territory. To ensure suitable housing conditions, NHC must perform building and condition rating inspections of all housing units. The inspection process used to begin with inspectors bringing clipboards with paper forms into the field, working their way through a checklist, and handwriting notes during inspections.

“With 26 local housing authorities overseeing inspections for their own communities, there was a lot of paper and data that needed to be processed and stored,” said David Fulgham, financial systems administrator and database analyst, Nunavut Housing Corporation. “Each local housing authority was required to manually input its data into a paper spreadsheet, which was then sent off to one of the three regional district offices. From there the information was manually collected, compiled and sent off to the main NHC office where it was uploaded into a database.”

According to Fulgham, the paper-based process was very problematic since forms could be misplaced or lost and handwriting misread, leading to inaccuracies in the data. Data inaccuracies or loss often meant inspections had to be redone.

“The paper process was wasting time, money and resources,” said Fulgham.

To streamline, mobilize, and digitize the inspection process and eliminate paper from its workflow, NHC chose the Microsoft Windows-based Motion® F5v Tablet PC, which seamlessly integrates with its office environment as well as database and reporting interface.

To learn more about how the Motion® F5v Tablet PCs are being used by NHC and the benefits they have gained from the solution, download this case study below.