Experience Public Works & Utilities

City of Phoenix:  RSI has a customized AVL and Mobile Data system in place with the City of Phoenix Department of Public Works.  Initially starting with the City’s solid waste fleet, the system includes up to 400 public works vehicles.  Each vehicle is equipped with an RSI mobile unit as well as a customized Garmin unit that is used for messaging as well as individual route navigation for the drivers.  The system allows fleet administrators to monitor the vehicles in real time as well as view reports on vehicle activity such as speed and location of armature lifts. The messaging terminals give the drivers the ability to instantly mark/record locations where there is a damaged or missing container.

Miami-Dade County: Miami-Dade County has the largest population in Florida and the 8th largest in the United States. RSI has been selected to implement a large countywide AVL system for several departments and agencies including Public Works, Solid Waste, Fire, Consumer Services, Water, Buildings, Community Action, and others. Using RSI’s new ESRI ArcGIS Server based Web browser interface, county departments are able to better manage their mobile assets and provide improved customer service.

City of Houston: The City of Houston, Texas is the fourth largest city in the United States centered in a metro area of nearly 6 million residents. RSI currently has a city-wide contract for multiple departments including Solid Waste, Fire, Public Works, Parks & Recreation, and others. The Web browser based AVL system is accessible by the individual departments and used in their own unique ways. Some of the various departments even have different reports, mobile hardware, and system configuration customized for their own unique needs.

City of Oklahoma City: The City of Oklahoma City has implemented an RSI AVL system over several departments including Water, Solid Waste, and Street Maintenance. Encompassing a wide variety of vehicles, the RSI AVL system provides different reports for different groups and vehicles.  Some departments are using the RSI customized Garmin messaging terminal to provide instant communication between driver and dispatcher. In addition the RSI AVL system is tracking various sensor and events on certain vehicles such as lights, signs, and PTO activation.

City of Tacoma: Just south of Seattle, Washington lies the City of Tacoma. With a population of 200,000 the City of Tacoma is the third largest city in the state.  Through a competitive RFP process, the City of Tacoma selected Radio Satellite Integrators to provide a turn-key AVL system to provide GPS tracking capabilities for its Solid Waste division vehicles. RSI outfitted the City’ Solid Waste vehicles with an AVL system that included sensors for tracking the automatic armature lifts and relating the data to the City’s ESRI GIS map data and customer database.

City of Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor, Michigan is home to the world renowned University of Michigan. With a metro area of over 340,000 residents, Ann Arbor is one of the most progressive and forward thinking cities in the Midwest.  The City selected Radio Satellite Integrators to provide real time vehicle tracking for its city vehicles, including public works and snow removal vehicles. Residents are able to log on to the City website and view the location of the snow plows relative to their routes and homes. Leveraging a shared ESRI GIS technology, the city’s snow plow routes are over-layed on the map display.

Bernalillo County: Bernalillo County, New Mexico is the most populous county in the state with over 660,000 residents. With its seat as the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County needed a real-time AVL system to manage the hundreds of vehicles the County operates. The County selected RSI after a thorough and competitive RFP process. The RSI AVL system tracks hundreds of county vehicles including public works and sheriffs cruisers.  Wireless data services for the AVL system are provided by Verizon Wireless.

City of Miami Beach: Home to the glamorous area known as South Beach, the City of Miami Beach also includes nearly 90,000 residents who depend on the City for a variety of standard civil and municipal services.  Encouraged by the overwhelming success of RSI’s AVL system for local Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach selected RSI to provide a highly customized and integrated AVL system for City vehicles. The RSI AVL system is able to leverage the advanced ESRI GIS mapping technology that the City has developed and uses in-house.

Boston Water and Sewer Commission:  RSI has a turn-key Automatic Vehicle Location system installed for Boston Water and Sewer Commission.  The (BWSC) currently operates water and sewer services for the City of Boston.  The full end-to-end AVL system utilizes 2-way radio for wireless communications.  With over 200 vehicles in the service fleet Boston Water & Sewers serves over a half million people in the greater Boston metropolitan area.  The AVL system uses both ESRI ArcView as well as ArcGIS 9.

Richland County, SC:  Richland County is home to the state capitol of Columbia and is the second most populous county in South Carolina with approximately 340,000 people.  The RSI AVL System provides county-wide GPS tracking of vehicles, concentrating on public works fleets.  The RSI AVL system combines GPS, two-way radio, and customized mapping software to provide real-time vehicle fleet location data to dispatchers and administrators.  The AVL project was spearheaded by the County’s GIS department, who selected RSI based on several factors including RSI’s expertise in using ESRI ArcGIS 9 software.

City of Jacksonville:  Being the largest city area-wise in the United States, the City of Jacksonville needed the most reliable solution available on the market. RSI was selected by the City to implement a city-wide Automatic Vehicle Location system. The multi-agency system spans across several departments and various types of vehicle fleets.  Each department has its own AVL interface to the system but shares some of the more expensive and transparent aspects of the system such as the communications backbone and centralized servers.

City of Fresno:  RSI has a full scale multi-agency AVL system in place for the City of Fresno.  With a fast growing population around 1 million people in the greater metro area, the City looks to RSI to provide a customized AVL system for several departments including the Water, Sewer, and Planning agencies within the City.  Spanning over 300 vehicles and dozens of computer workstations, the system is integrates with the City’s extensive ESRI GIS mapping programs.  The system has several key features including sensors on the sanitation vehicle loading arms.

CEMIG:  Supplying energy to 17 million people, CEMIG is Brazil’s largest electric utility company and one of the largest in all of Latin America.  CEMIG covers the State of Minas Gerais expanding 560,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent in size to the entire country of France.  To efficiently manage a utility workforce that can service this entire state requires a complex yet cost-effective logistical solution.    In order to take on this gargantuan task, CEMIG contracted Radio Satellite Integrators to implement an AVL and mobile data system utilizing their existing E.F. Johnson MultiNet Trunking radio system.

City of Visalia – Department of Public Works: Located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, the City of Visalia is a central hub for the state’s thriving agricultural industry and home to more than 123,000 people. As one of the fastest growing cities in the country, Visalia needs to manage its fleet of public works and solid waste vehicles. Using a combination of RSI AVL and ESRI ArcGIS, the city can monitor and manage vehicle fleet activity to improve operational efficiency as well as customer service.

Horry County, SC:  Horry County is located on the eastern most tip of the South Carolina coast and is home to the popular tourist destination city of Myrtle Beach.  RSI is working with Horry County government to implement a multi-department AVL system for various fleets and agencies within the County.  After witnessing the overwhelming success of the RSI AVL system in nearby Richland County, Horry County decided to procure a system of their own.

Consolidated Utility District:  The Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County supplies water to over 30,000 residents of Rutherford County, Tennessee- one of the fastest growing counties in the nation.  Radio Satellite Integrators was selected to install a turn-key AVL system for their 60 vehicle fleet using a stand-alone 2-way radio system.  The CUD AVL system uses the ESRI ArcGIS mapping software as the underlying engine to the RSI AVL customized application.

Town of Mansfield Public Works:  The Town of Mansfield, Connecticut is located in the northeast corner of the state of Connecticut.  With a population of 21,000 covering 45 square miles, public works are just as important to this small town as they are to any city, especially with their harsh winters.  Mansfield has the RSI AVL system in their multi-use public works vehicles for snow plowing, spreading, salting, sanding, and various public works duties.  The system uses a public data network for wireless communications.

Yankee Gas:  Yankee Gas is the largest natural gas distributor in Connecticut, serving nearly 200,000 customers in over 60 metro areas.  With 85 service vehicles equipped with the RSI system, Yankee Gas dispatchers are able to locate their trucks accurate up to a few meters, enabling the most efficient management, dispatching, and operations for their mobile workforce.  RSI’s V-TrackTM incorporates the CDPD network for wireless data communications in this particular system.  Fully integrated with Axiom Corporation’s Mobility mobile workforce solution, RSI provides the vehicle tracking and wireless communication portions of the system. 

Erie County Water Authority: The Erie County Water Authority (ECWA) is responsible for the upkeep and supply of water to 640,000 residents in the greater Buffalo, NY area.  Using the RSI AVL system and Kenwood two-way radios, the ECWA is able to track and monitor its fleet for a variety of dispatching, supervisory, and security uses.  Viewed on RSI’s powerful mapping software, ECWA administration can see detailed real-time and archived location data for the fleet of technician, supervisor, meter reader, emergency, and other operations vehicles