The Company:
4M ETS has leveraged our technology and systems expertise to provide real time tracking to reduce waste and fraud in the manual-paper based tracking system. After a review of the current technologies, the USCE mandated a “Smart Card” based system for Disaster Recovery/Debris Removal Contracts. 4M Consulting team assumed a lead role in the development and helped created a USACE certified system.
During a hurricane event 4M ETS team consulted, deployed and tested the system
in a real-world environment and finalized USACE approval. As a result, 4M ETS successfully tracked more than 125,000 cubic yards of clay material for the Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana levee repair project monitored by All South Consulting Engineers (ASCE).
Our team deployed to Slidell, Tammany Parish, Louisiana to track the removal of debris created by the demolition of condemned homes/building that were abandoned. The system and our team successfully tracked and recorded removal of vegetative debris building material debris, asbestos containing material, other hazardous waste material, and other removed items such as large home appliances. This was done in support of the project monitoring company CDM.
As technology advanced so did the evolution of the ADMS. The system was adapted to utilize cellular networking, barcoding, QR codes using a cellular handheld device. The role of the ADMS system expanded to include non-disaster related debris removal and real-time project/location tracking.
4M ETS team completed a 12-month project for WBV 15A.2 Lake Cat Levee, Louisiana. 680,000 cubic yards of clay was tracked as deposited at the levy.
In Florida with Thompson Consulting Services – 4M ETS team monitored over 10 million cubic yards of debris removal. Our initial role included project stand-up and advanced IT services for Miami-Dade Co, Broward Co, West Palm Beach Co, Lee Co, Hillsborough Co and adjacent municipalities. Once the data hubs were established and the field devices deployed, our role quickly expanded to include project, data hub and back-office management, as well as field services.
We tracked and maintained more than 1000 handheld devices and printers daily, performed data QC, audit and verification for over 150,000 tickets.