Spike News
Video: CDOT Speeds Data Collection from Months to Minutes with Spike and Survey123
The Colorado Department of Transportation was an early adopter of the integration between Spike and Esri’s Survey123 for ArcGIS®. CDOT’s initial project was a signage inventory project, where they needed to measure over two thousand signs. Using their old method of laptops and pen and paper, this would have taken them months. By switching to an end-to-end mobile solution...
For consultants with J.S. Held, leveraging technology is of utmost importance to effectively complete tasks and deliver top quality reports and documentation for their customers. J.S. Held is a multi-disciplinary national and international construction consulting firm, specializing in construction, property damage assessment, project and program management, forensic engineering, and environmental consulting services. With more and more of the world’s leading...
ikeGPS Partners with International Esri Distributors in Spain, Thailand, Morocco
Expanding Availability of Integrated Solution of Spike and Survey123 for ArcGIS ikeGPS announces new distribution agreements for Spike with three of Esri’s International Partners, expanding upon the early success witnessed by Esri in the US. These agreements make Spike, a smart laser measurement solution, available to Esri’s user communities in Spain, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao, Vietnam, and Morocco, supporting the...
Top Six Spike Applications for Municipalities and Counties
The adoption of Spike by municipalities and counties is growing quickly, and it’s no surprise considering how many different applications there are for Spike. Many of these applications require the collection of both location and measurement data, and the ability to update these assets in a geodatabase. Since Spike is cost effective and easy to use, it’s also easy to...
Positioning & Measurement Publication xyHt Profiles Spike
xyHt, a magazine dedicated to the geospatial industry and for professionals and prosumers, released an in-depth profile of Spike in the July 2018 issue. The article, titled "Not Everything Requires Precision Accuracies", is written by author Matteo Luccio, who received a demo Spike device for his own testing. As part of the profile, James Pardue, Senior Vice President of...
Spike Stories: City of Winston-Salem Zoning Team Cuts Costs on Sign Inventory & Compliance
In the United States, local governments are responsible for surveying their ground signs for compliance on a regular basis and keeping a detailed record of the history of the sign. This is no small task for a city to accomplish, and is typically time and cost-consuming. The Zoning Department with the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was getting ready...
ikeGPS Announces Reseller Agreement with Geospatial Global Leader Esri
Bringing Spike to Esri’s User Community in United States ikeGPS announces a new distribution agreement with Esri, the global market leader in geographic information systems (GIS) software, whose solutions are deployed in more than 350,000 organizations including the world’s largest cities and many national governments. This agreement makes Spike, a smart laser measurement solution, available to Esri’s US user community,...
Spike Now Partnered With All Major North American Sign Franchises
Spike, the award-winning laser measurement solution that is used by more than five thousand signage professionals, now has partnerships in place with all major sign franchise groups. These groups include FASTSIGNS, YESCO, Signarama, Alliance Franchise Brands, and Signworld Business Partners. . After testing Spike internally and among their top sign shops, these groups recognized Spike’s significant impact...
Esri’s ArcNews features Spike’s adoption by Carbon County, Utah’s GIS and Road Departments
Carbon County, Utah’s use of Spike combined with Collector for ArcGIS for signage inventory was detailed in Esri’s quarterly publication of ArcNews. In the past, it used to take Carbon County’s road team six months to conduct an inventory of 1,500 signs—and it cost the county approximately $50,000 each year. . After successfully implementing Collector with Spike, the...
GISCafé Interviews Colorado DOT About Spike and Survey123 Pilot
Roberto Avila, Ph.D. GIS Applications & Data Services Unit Manager with the Colorado Department of Transportation, spoke with Susan Smith from GISCafe Voice about their recent pilot of Esri’s Survey123 for ArcGIS and Spike. . According to Avila, “with a snap of the phone, you can measure in real time, height, weight, area, length, target location. Being...
