hand-e-pix in the news

Orange today published a press release about the custom version of hand-e-pix in use on the M25 project.

For those of you who aren't aware the M25 is undergoing a major widening scheme to provide additional lanes and as a result an additional 50% capacity. The overrun fines for the construction phase are huge, so the joint venture that won the tender are using hand-e-pix to help manage snags.

By capturing and reporting in real time any problem areas, gang leaders are providing office based management staff real time updates on progress and problems. By using photographs, the field staff can reduce the time taken to capture data, and provide a more comprehensive view of scenarios on the ground. Integrated GPS provides the location, so that engineers can return to site quickly and if necessary carry out any remedial works.

Easter eggs and infrastructure

A big thanks to the team that has been working hard over the last few weeks to update the hand-e-pix hosted infrastructure for our hosted customers. Here's a quick summary of what's been going on: -

• New and up-spec'd load balanced web servers
• New database cluster
• New session handling code for Media Manager
• Upgrade for clients still runing Media Manager 1.0
• Transfer to a new data centre

What this means is that we're well placed to offer more hosted customers an improved experience and accomodate those enterprise customers who may want to use hand-e-pix in their own clustered environment.

Well done guys!