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Eos Customer Stories: Your Success Is Ours

Eos Positioning Systems®, Inc. (Eos) values the work happening all around the world with high-accuracy GNSS location. Eos customer stories highlight some of hour favorite stories. Arrow Series™ users around the world are reshaping how they collect, manage, and make decisions based off high-accuracy location data. Browse stories from utility, environmental, forestry, marine, government, agricultural, and other organizations that are transforming their location data into a powerful, decision-making tool.

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Montreal Preserves its Iconic Landscape by Increasing Pesticide Treatment with Collector and Arrow 100 by 6300% per Year

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The City of Montreal increased its pesticide treatment with Collector and Arrow 100 by more than 6,000 percent — saving its iconic forests from the pernicious emerald ash borer. The city traded inaccurate Garmin GPS legacy units, costly manual workflows, and error-prone printouts for Collector, Eos Arrow, iPads.
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Kentucky Water District Cuts Meter Installation Costs in Half with High-Accuracy, Real-Time Data Collection

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OCWD in Kentucky cut its costs for each meter installation by 50% from about $200 to about $100 by using a centimeter-accuracy, real-time field data collection solution. The utility was able to free office staff for other work and reduce its labor, equipment, and materials costs.
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Reducing As-Builting Time: How One U.S. Water Utility Got Down to 7 Days with Arrow

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Indiana American Water was using a legacy workflow to check in and check out maps to the field spanning 300,000 customers. The workflow took six months at best for as-builting to get updated asset data into the office backend and back out to the field. With Arrow 200, Collector for ArcGIS, and iPad minis, the utility was able to slash as-builting time to just seven days. Asset data in the field is collected to within a centimeter of accuracy — and is reflected instantly to users across the utility via Esri ArcGIS Online.
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Affordable High-Accuracy Receivers Help Ireland Save Europe’s Last Remaining Bogs

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Wetland Surveys Ireland (WSI) uses Arrow 100 GPS / GNSS receivers, Esri Collector for ArcGIS, and iOS devices to influence environmental policy in Ireland. The team at WSI is able to measure and monitor the growth or deterioration of Sphagnum mosses, enabling them to create highly accurate maps of the healthiest or poorest-health boglants — so policymakers can act quickly to save Europe's last remaining boglands.
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U.K. Water Utility Maps 10,000 Miles of Assets with Sub-Meter Accuracy

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Tucked away in rural England, Northumbrian Water was looking for a technology kit that could improve its asset data. The water utility was on a tight budget and had limited staff, who needed an intuitive solution. By deploying the Arrow 100 receiver, Northumbrian Water was able to tap into the European EGNOS SBAS for differential corrections, collect high-accuracy data with Collector for ArcGIS, and increase internal confidence in asset data while keeping costs low.
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Water Utility Improves Operations and Data Accuracy with Eos Arrow and Collector [Esri Webinar]

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In this one-hour webinar from Esri and Eos Positioning Systems, you'll see the story of Indiana American Water moving to a modern, web-GIS-based workflow for field data collection. See how the utility made the leap from a time-consuming legacy workflow that included a six-month as-builting delay — to an affordable, intuitive, web-based solution that brought as-builting down to a week. The webinar covers workflows for Collector for ArcGIS, Arrow 200 receivers, and iPad minis.
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Arizona Co-Op Collects 600 Assets Per Day with Centimeter Accuracy GNSS, Thanks to Arrow Gold GNSS and Collector

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Gathering data in rural, mountainous Arizona wasn't always easy. That's why SSVEC needed a field solution that worked in a remote environment, yet record highly accurate data. By deploying the ArcGIS platform and a new release of Collector for ArcGIS that supported high-accuracy Eos GNSS receivers, SSVEC collected up to 600 assets per day with centimeter accuracy. See how the Arrow Gold helped this electric co-op increase their asset data accuracy despite terrain challenges.
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Kansas Utility Finds New Workflow Solutions on ArcPad with Arrow

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WaterOne in Kansas was stuck in a legacy technology mess. Their GNSS handhelds required time-consuming, end-of-day manual labor. And worse, the interfaces frustrated staff. The utility decided to swap the old technology in favor of a device-agnostic, web-GIS-first technology kit. By implementing the ArcGIS platform, deploying Arrow 200 GNSS receivers, and moving to a platform-based approach to information collection and sharing, WaterOne created an affordable, high-accuracy location solution that staff enjoyed using. Here's their story.
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