SkyLog, from Pacific DataVision Inc. San Diego, Calif., lets inspectors call in notes from the field for retrieval and processing by their office staff from a site on the Internet (ENR 4/15/02 p. 33.) Reports can be generated while inspectors are still on the job from comments spoken into their phones. The service automatically creates an audit trail as the memos come in. Skylog also offers to create transcriptions as an option.

The service requires Nextel phone service with Nextel’s Direct Connect feature. A single button-push will select a Web destination. Notes can be directed to separate folders for different projects.

Pricing involves an enterprise set-up fee of $100 and a monthly per user rate that ranges from $1.61 a day to about one-third as much with multiple users and prepayment plans. Details are available at www.pacificdatavision.com.