Labor Savings with Retriever

The chart below is an example of how Retriever can dramatically reduce the labor required for field data collection, when all of the activities in conventional manual methods are accounted for.

Traditional methods of data collection and reporting are changing rapidily as technology eliminates steps and drives down costs. Manual data collection can involve many steps and concerns from the field to the final report:

• Driving to the site
• Traversing the site, including in adverse weather and hard to reach wells/risers
• Opening enclosures or locks, lowering, raising, and cleaning portable water level meters, writing down the data, and returning the well or riser to a secure condition
• Employee exposure to contaminants and site hazards
• Disruption of normal operations if valves and fittings are not restored to proper condition
• Transcribing the data from field sheets to spreadsheet format and proofing for errors
• Performing any intermediate data calculations
• Arranging the data into report format
• Securely archiving the data so long term trends can be reviewed later