Software Firm Sysdyne Technologies and HaulHub Technologies Announce Owners Link Integration To Increase Accuracy By CIOTechOutlook Team

Software Firm Sysdyne Technologies and HaulHub Technologies Announce Owners Link Integration To Increase Accuracy

CIOTechOutlook Team | Friday, 14 April 2023, 06:41 IST

Owners Link is a technical two-way integration between construction material point of sale systems and State Transportation Agency project portals, and it has been launched by Sysdyne Technologies, the Leading Cloud-Native Software Platform for Ready-Mix Concrete Producers, and HaulHub Technologies, the Leading e-Construction Platform for Transportation Agencies. Owners Link assists in ensuring a reliable source of data records that permit payments while also adhering to laws and regulations at the federal level.

Since the earliest e-Ticketing experiments, public transportation agencies have continued to calculate payment amounts using paper tickets. Millions of e-Tickets can be used as a true substitute for paper tickets by creating two-way integrations and process standards like Owners Link, which will add much-needed layers of credibility and assurance that Agencies must adhere to the guidelines set forth by the Federal Highway Administration. Owners Link is a requirement for the agency that intends to use e-Ticketing for payments because it will be made available to all point-of-sale providers.

"Owners Link creates value for the material supplier, the project owner, and the contractor. Yet another reason why cloud-native solutions for the construction supply chain should be considered," said Ed Rusch of Sysdyne Technologies. The added capability will allow the heavy material supplier to select a project from a certified list in lieu of hand typing project data into a free form text box. "Material tickets with accurate project descriptions, contract numbers and codes could dramatically improve the downstream reconciliation and billing experiences for all the project stakeholders."

By removing the possibility of data input error at the scale and boosting standardisation efforts, Owners Link aids in the routing of material tickets to the appropriate agency projects, ensuring that e-tickets arrive on the project in a timely way. The integration will enable the first two-way data transfer of its kind, allowing an owner's project list to be shared with the material supplier via the point-of-sale interface and the ticket to be immediately returned to the owner, obviating any possibility of the ticket being altered by anyone.

"The paper ticket's advantage was that once printed, the ticket could not be altered," said Corey Paradis, Vice President at HaulHub Technologies. "Owners Link provides enhancements to existing point of sale systems that give agencies confidence the data is trustworthy and can be used for project payments."

Millions of material tickets are used every year by state agencies and the federal government under the Federal-Aid Highway programme to calculate pay quantities for projects worth billions of dollars. The digital project delivery strategy must continue to progress if data is to be trusted, verified, and auditable.

Gregory Nadeau, former FHWA Administrator and now a strategic advisor to HaulHub Technologies, noted "The private sector is ready to go and coming together to find solutions that will support and accelerate digital project delivery transformation efforts led by state DOT's and FHWA. Owners Link is a great example of how we can do better - it will provide access to a critical data link for infrastructure owners and will serve as a catalyst to further collaboration between industry and public sector infrastructure agencies."

The Federal Highway Administration's Computerization of Construction Record Memorandum outlines the electronic record-keeping requirements necessary for construction projects to comply with federal statutes and regulations. According to the Memorandum, "records must be made at or near the time of the event," "by or from a person with direct knowledge of the event," "ensure that only authorised personnel have access to input electronic records," "prevent unauthorised alteration or erasure of electronic records," and "ensure that only authorised personnel have access to paper records."