Orbit WOMS

Work-order software your crews actually use.

The consistent thing field supervisors tell us about their current WOMS — regardless of vendor: "Within 90 days, my crews are back to paper, group texts, and calling dispatch on the radio." Orbit WOMS was built mobile-first by people who ran field crews. 80%+ crew adoption in 30 days, not the typical 6-month uphill battle.

app.orbitwork.io · dispatch
42 WOs · 6 crews · 12 zones

Today · 18 WOs

WO-1042On site

Meter swap · 123 Oak

Crew Alpha

WO-1041En route

Hydrant flush · 456 Main

Crew Bravo

WO-1040Scheduled

Valve exercise · Pine St

Crew Charlie

WO-1039Done

Locate · 789 Elm

Crew Alpha

WO-1038En route

Service inv · 321 Cedar

Crew Delta

What we hear at the water conference

Two patterns we hear from every utility considering a switch

  • Cityworks utilities — implementation took 14 months, the mobile app gets abandoned within the first 90 days, reports require SQL or a $30K dashboard add-on, and the Esri license stack keeps growing.
  • Scattered-setup utilities — Lucity here, Cartegraph there, paper and group texts for the rest. Nothing connected, nothing built specifically for water meter ops. The annual reconciliation pain hits when finance asks why crew labor does not tie to completed work orders.
  • Both groups land in the same place: the dispatch board the office actually uses is the one the crews will actually open in the field.

For utilities your size, total WOMS value typically pays for itself within the first year on labor productivity alone.

9:41●●●
WO-2847

Meter Swap

142 Main St

GPS confirmed · 09:34

Required capture

Old meter serial✓ 887-A92341
New meter serial✓ 912-B41087
Before photo✓ IMG_2847.jpg
After photo✓ IMG_2848.jpg
Final read✓ 247,931 gal
Customer signature○ required

Offline-tolerant · auto-syncs when reconnected

What Orbit WOMS does

Built mobile-first, for water specifically

Custom WO types for valve exercising, hydrant flushing, locates, meter swaps, service-line repair — not retrofitted from generic asset management.

One-screen dispatch board

Map view, lasso-select, real-time crew status. Balance load, reassign on the fly, see ETAs. The screen your office actually uses.

Mobile crew app

PWA, offline-tolerant, geofenced clock-in. Photo capture and serial-scan in 2 taps. Works in poor cell areas. 80%+ adoption in 30 days.

Create a WO in 30 seconds

CSR books a service call, dispatcher creates an emergency repair, foreman logs a locate — pick the WO type, drop the address, hit assign. Required fields auto-attach.

Auto-assigned + recurring WOs

Location + crew capacity auto-assigns routine WOs. Annual hydrant flushing, quarterly valve exercising — schedule once, runs forever, audit-clean.

Billing integrations

Tyler Munis, Banyon, Caselle, BS&A, Springbrook. Crew time and completed WOs reconcile to billing automatically.

Export anything in two clicks

WO data, crew time, audit logs, council reports. CSV, PDF, or API. No analyst, no add-on.

How utilities use WOMS day-to-day

A day with Orbit WOMS

F

Field Tech

Crew Bravo · Mid-market utility

A mobile app that lasted past month three

The last WOMS got abandoned by month 2 — too many taps to close a meter swap. With Orbit, capture is 2 taps. After 6 weeks his crew was 100% on the app. Office calls asking "where are you?" dropped to zero — they see his GPS dot on the dispatch board.

C

CSR / Dispatcher

Resident call mid-morning, ad-hoc WO

Built a WO from scratch in 30 seconds, mid-call

Resident called about a possible service-line leak. CSR opened "New WO" → picked "Service Investigation" → dropped the address → hit assign. Crew got the dispatch on their phone before she finished the call. Recurring WOs auto-route; the unexpected ones still take her 30 seconds.

P

Public Works Director

Mid-market utility · Cityworks renewal up

Cut implementation timeline from 14 months to 30 days

The internal estimate to migrate off Cityworks was "budget 9 months." Orbit went live across 4 zones in 31 days. Reports that took SQL now take a saved view. He kept the Cityworks budget for a year just in case — never reactivated it.

One platform, not three integrations

WOMS is the field-execution layer of the platform.

A leak flagged in Insights or a resident report in Portal becomes a dispatched WO without leaving the system.

Insights

Anomaly → draft WO

Meter location, customer info, suggested crew skillset

Dispatcher reviews + assigns

One click on the dispatch board

WOMS

Crew dispatched

Auto-routed, on-the-way SMS

WOMS

Completion captured

Photos, signatures, GPS, AI QA/QC review

Result piped back

Insights closes the anomaly, Portal notifies resident

Common questions

Things utilities actually ask about Orbit WOMS

A 30-day deploy is typical. We export your asset registry, recurring WO templates, and 12 months of WO history from Cityworks. We reconfigure WO types for water-specific work (valve exercising, hydrant flushing, locates). We run parallel for 2-4 weeks. Most utilities live cut at day 30. No Esri license stack required.

Built by people who installed the meters

Built by people who installed 100,000+ water meters across 21 states.

100K+

meters installed

21

states

200+

collectors deployed

We built Orbit because the software our crews were handed didn't work. Then we made it available to every utility we work with.

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