# US Army Fort Drum/Hood Case Study

Insights into operational efficiency in difficult data capture environments.

## Context

The US Army periodically mandates studies to validate and improve the operational efficiency of their facilities. Studies based on manual data capture/entry were found to lack detail and rigour, while automatic data capture methods were found to be too expensive and complicated for short-terms studies.

A contract for a week-long study each at Fort Drum and Fort Hood was awarded to KFS LLC who selected reelyActive as the automatic data capture provider. **The location of soldiers working in vehicle maintenance facilities was recorded over the course of each work day.**   The [personnel tracking](/content/use-cases/personnel-tracking/#content/index.html) data set was provided to Jacobs, the subject matter experts retained for reporting and analysis.

The reelyActive platform proved well-adapted to the unique constraints of the studies and the military facilities. On-site power and network limitations, short and unpredictable deployment timelines, as well as unreliable Internet connectivity were all overcome to provide ample and uninterrupted data for analysis.

> "We're now able to automatically collect personnel journeys in challenging environments, even for studies as short as a few days."
> 
> Max Jones, KFS LLC.

## Deployed Solution

|     |     |
| --- | --- |
|  | Data extraction from [Kibana](/content/pareto/anywhere/integrations/elastic-stack/#content/index.html) for further processing |
|  | Local _and_ hosted [Pareto Anywhere](/content/pareto/anywhere/#content/index.html) instances for redundancy |
|  | 40+ [Owl-in-Ones](/content/products/gateways/#owl-in-one/index.html) rapidly and temporarily deployed across multiple buildings |
|  | [Minew E8](/content/pareto/anywhere/devices/#minew-e8/index.html) beacons worn as personnel badges |

- US Army
- New York & Texas, USA
- 2019