Scan portable toilet unit numbers with your phone
Point the phone at the unit. That's the lookup.
Scan the tag or photograph the number molded into the door, and PortaPro pulls up the unit: where it's deployed, its status, its code and tool number. No typing, and no guessing which unit you're standing at.
No tag? The number is already on the plastic.
Choose OCR Tool Number and photograph the embossed marking. Google Cloud Vision reads it and hands back the tool number with how sure it is. The driver checks it and taps Search for Unit.
Faded sticker, missing tag, yard at 5:30 in the morning: the molding is still there.
Print a tag once. One scan button reads the rest of the yard.
Every unit has a printable tag: a QR code and the unit number in large type. The QR opens the unit from Quick Scan or from the phone's own camera, and the same button works out what else you pointed it at.
- A unit you own
- Its tag, unit number, serial, or molded tool number opens the unit: where it's deployed, its status, its codes.
- A customer's tank or panel
- The nameplate opens that component: whose it is, when it was last serviced, and what's due.
- A case of supplies
- The barcode or UPC opens that item in your consumables, with how many are on hand.
- A unit on a stop
- Scan unit tag on the job places that exact unit at a pin, or moves it to where the driver is standing, and marks the tag deployed.
- At the desk, or nothing on file
- The same scan button sits in the office's top bar and takes a USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner. An unknown code opens an inventory search on it instead of a dead end.
Questions operators ask
What if it reads the number wrong?
Nothing happens until the driver says so. The detected number shows with its confidence, the driver checks it against the unit, and only then searches. If the marking is too worn to read, they type the number instead.
Does scanning work without signal?
No. Google Cloud Vision reads the photo and the lookup runs against your live inventory, so both need a connection. The rest of the driver app keeps working offline.
Do I need special tags or a label printer?
No. Print a unit's tag from its page on 4 by 2.5 inch labels, eight to a page, or download it. For tags that have to live through the pressure washer, order printed ones from Settings: thermal-transfer print on silver polyester, with an adhesive made for the plastic a restroom is molded from. Printed tags are paid for per order.
Does it spot damage on the unit, and which plan is it in?
No damage detection. It reads the characters molded into the plastic and finds the unit they belong to; damage is the driver's call, flagged on the service form with a photo. Scanning, the molded-number read, and printable tags come with inventory on every plan, Starter included.