Working with no signal, and what happens after.
Risers, basements, plant rooms and stair cores are where fire doors and penetrations live, and they are exactly where the signal is not. Capture does not depend on connectivity: it runs offline and reconciles when the device resurfaces. This is what that means in practice, and the one habit that keeps it boring.
Section 01How to do it
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Open the job while you still have signal
This is the whole discipline. Load the property and the inspection at the van or in the lobby; after that the building can be as dead as it likes.
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Capture normally
The stepper walks the door or the penetration component by component. Nothing behaves differently offline, which is deliberate — an inspector should not have to think about connectivity.
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Use No Access rather than skipping
A locked cupboard is a finding. Marking it No Access keeps it visible as outstanding; skipping it makes it look like a pass to everyone downstream.
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Resurface
Walk out, get signal, and the queue drains on its own. You do not have to stay on the page or press anything.
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Check the count before you leave site
If you inspected forty doors, the register should show forty. Sixty seconds of arithmetic in the car park is cheaper than a return visit.
Section 02What the app actually does here
- Inspection and survey capture run with no connectivity, including photographs and measurements
- The device syncs by itself when it reconnects — there is no upload step at the end of a shift
- Both modules capture offline: fire door inspections and fire stopping surveys
- “No access” is a first-class answer, so a locked riser is recorded as unreachable rather than silently skipped
- Gap readings are stored positionally — left, middle, right — and a skipped middle reading stays skipped rather than being averaged away
- A QR label scan opens the right door record straight from a phone camera — it is a web link, so no app is needed to follow it
- Photographs are taken against the component they belong to, so nothing needs filing afterwards
- Work captured offline is dated when the completion is recorded — which, offline, is when the device next syncs — and the documents state that rather than pretending otherwise
Section 03What goes wrong
Every one of these has cost somebody real time. They are cheap to avoid and expensive to unwind.
The first load needs a connection. Open it before you descend and the rest of the day looks after itself.
Give it a moment on signal before you shut the device down for the day. The queue is durable, but there is no reason to make it work harder than it needs to.
Skipped and No Access look identical on a spreadsheet and completely different in a compliance record. Use the disposition.
For work completed offline the recorded date is the sync date, so it can fall later than the day the work was done — never earlier. The documents state that explicitly; do not quietly present a recorded date as the day somebody was on site.
Section 04Questions
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Do we need to install anything?
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What if two people inspect the same building?
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Are photographs compressed?
Section 05Related
Guides help. Doing it helps more.
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