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The virtual inspection tool is just one offering the company’s core business involves software to manage the permitting and licensing process as well as land use. “There was a couple people out there doing inspections, like virtual inspections, but most of the governments we spoke to were trying to use Zoom, Apple’s FaceTime, Google Duo, and those tools really weren’t working for the use case,” Rosengarten said. A more common reason was to make the process of inspection easier for everyone involved. Surprisingly, however, the company found that the pandemic was just one reason its customers wanted to start doing inspections virtually. “If you don’t get the building permit you don’t get, for the city, the chance to increase the valuable property, which has long-term impacts on property taxes.” “If you don’t do inspections, you don’t get the building permit,” said Mike Rosengarten, Camino’s CEO and co-founder. There was a lot of incentive for them to quickly pivot to such a product. Today, some of the governments using Camino to handle virtual inspections of buildings and businesses include Orange County, Fla. “The ability to just do that inspection on demand, the ability to do the inspection right after the work is done, helps make these projects a lot easier for residents and it helps developers get more done in a shorter period of time,” said Nate Levine, the company's chief strategy officer and co-founder.Īccording to the company’s leaders, it was a hit with customers. When all is said and done, it can auto-generate an inspection report that the inspector can then share with the applicant. The software also lets them take notes and capture items of interest. The tool - which runs through Internet browsers, not a mobile app - allows inspectors to livestream video with their applicants, using their camera to see potential issues. Camino was already working in that area, but as activity ground to a halt across the country the company responded with a new tool to help governments keep their permitting and licensing processes up and running: A virtual inspections tool. With offices shutting down and scientists urging people to stay distant from each other when possible, the last year has created an urgent need in government for software to help manage previously in-person processes digitally.

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