All work
Field services · Field-services company (anonymized)

Real-time visibility across a nationwide field team

A real-time tracking platform that gave operations a live picture of the country-wide field team — without disrupting how the team already worked.

  • Geo / real-time
  • Mobile
  • Operations
Country-wideField-team coverage
Real-timeLocation + job status
ZeroWorkflow disruption

Timeline: ~8 weeks · Discovery → pilot region → nationwide

The problem

Operations had no live picture of where the field team was, only end-of-day reports.

Customers calling with "where is my technician?" got an honest "we will find out" — a bad experience and a coordination tax on the office team.

Existing tools either tried to be a CRM or wanted the team to abandon the way they already worked. Neither was viable.

Our approach

  • Spent the discovery week shadowing the field team and the dispatchers — built around their actual day, not around a generic SaaS playbook.
  • Built a lightweight mobile app for the field team: location ping, job status (en route / on-site / done), with privacy controls so it only runs during shifts.
  • Built an ops-side dashboard: live map, filter by region, drill into any technician's day, ETA estimates from real travel data.
  • Designed the API so the platform integrates with the existing dispatch system — no double entry.

The result

Operations now has a live country-wide view of the field team and can answer "where is my technician?" in seconds.

Field team adopted the app because it was built around how they already work — not bolted on.

Customer experience improved (real ETAs) and dispatch coordination dropped from minutes to seconds per request.

Our field teams are spread across the country and we never had a clear picture of where anyone was. NEROOM built a tracking system that gave us real-time visibility without disrupting how the team already works.
COO, Field-services company (anonymized)

Stack

  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL + PostGIS
  • WebSockets
  • AWS (Lambda, RDS)

Like to talk about something similar?

We only take on a small number of new projects each month. If your team has a problem in this shape — or something completely different — start with a free 30-minute call.

More work