Nowadays it feels like there’s an app for everything. Need food, but don’t want to leave the house? There’s an endless amount of delivery apps. Need a ride? Uber or Lyft can be there in under five minutes. Need a place to stay? Check out Air Bnb or other homestay apps. Asphalt paving? Turns out that there is an app for that too! A new app called Pavelink is helping asphalt pavers everywhere. Read on to learn all about Pavelink and what a cool tool it is for asphalt professionals.

What Is Pavelink?

The app was developed by a company called Topcon. Topcon is a tech company that works in a wide variety of fields, from agriculture to construction to forestry to forensics. The app is designed for use by asphalt companies to coordinate everything on a project.

When they say everything, they mean everything. From the asphalt plant too the truck drivers and personnel on site to the office employees. The goal of Pavelink is to help asphalt professionals and the people that use their paving – which is almost everyone.

The company says that their goal is a long-term solution. “With many roads around the world coming to the end of their lifecycle, this presents a global issue with unprecedented levels of investment required to resurface and widen the world’s highways – placing an even greater emphasis on the importance of finding a credible long-term solution.”

The Main Goals Of The App

Pavelink is designed to assist with a wide range of asphalt project hiccups. Here is a brief outline of all the things the app can help with

Communication

Pavelink is a cloud-based logistics application. This means that any and all updates are made almost instantaneously in real time. It helps every portion of the paving process avoid the dreaded game of phone tag. Increased communication also leads to increased safety.

Efficiency

The app provides a central place for all of the information stakeholders need. Asphalt quantities, site temperatures, GPS-tracked truck locations, and percentage of job worked are all tracked by the app. It also records when trucks arrive on site and the current speed of the pavers. All of this information leads to an extremely high rate of efficiency. Ultimately, project managers access the ability to time everything down to the minute.

Asphalt Quality

Due to increased communication and efficiency, the asphalt and the work overall increase in quality. The timing is especially important in commercial projects due to the size of the areas that asphalt is paved onto. When the timing is exact on a project the quality of the job increases. This is because a start and stop tempo does not lead to consistent and smooth results.

Cost

Nothing is more stressful than when project is running out of time and therefore out of budget. A shocking number of construction and commercial works projects run over budget. Pavelink enables projects to come in on or under budget by heightening communication and efficiency