OTSS: On-Track Safety Standards

RailPros is the trusted provider for the railroad industry in engineering, field services, training and media production. RailPros provides diversified safety services for the leading railroad companies and needed a development partner who could turn a proof-of-concept mobile app into a full-fledged and mandatory internal application that protects hundreds of workers out in the field each and every day.

We carefully examined the way in which RailPros conducts business and manages engineers in the field to understand the needs and lack of tools to improve the lives of their managers and workers. The complex and unique nature of the railroad engineering industry required an equally complex app – but one that could simplify the daily lives of everyone at their company.

We developed a cross platform mobile application that is used internally by staff each and everyday. The app provides critical safety measures, using location services, push notifications, SMS, and call notifications to notify workers and management if anything goes amiss. Workers are kept accountable, and detailed work logs are kept to protect everyone in the field in case of an incident. Additionally, we built supplemental tools such as administrative panels, reporting, and auditing tools that allow the client to have full control and transparency with the large datasets that are stored each day.