How does scheduling work?

Fire Prevention Mobile (MobileEyes) can auto-schedule your inspections for you, or you can manually schedule them. To activate the auto-scheduling feature, call the support team.

There are two types of inspections – recurring and on demand. Recurring inspection types have a frequency. On-demand inspection types do not. Annuals, bi-annuals, and tri-annuals are all recurring inspection types because they occur at regular frequencies. Complaints, license inspections, acceptance tests are all on-demand inspection types because they are triggered by an event or a request. They do not recur at regular intervals.

How recurring inspection scheduling works – When you create your inspection types, you designate a frequency for each type. If all occupants get the same recurring inspection type – Annual, for example – then the frequency is all that is necessary. Designate the frequency and pick "Frequency is the only criterion." from the Option Forecasting Criteria pick box. Fire Prevention Mobile (MobileEyes) will look at the date of the last inspection for each occupant and automatically schedule the next inspection if auto-scheduling is enabled, or forecast the date of next inspection based on the inspection frequency.

For example, let’s say you do Annuals (365-day frequency) on all your occupants regardless of what type of occupant they are. The date of last annual inspection on Benita’s Salon is March 3, 2018. Fire Prevention Mobile (MobileEyes) will auto-schedule the next inspection for Benita’s Salon on March 2, 2019, if auto-scheduling is enabled. If not, Fire Prevention Mobile (MobileEyes) will forecast the next annual inspection for March 2, 2019, so that you can manually schedule it.

But suppose you do Annuals on Assembly, Educational, and Day Care occupancies and Bi-Annuals on the rest. Now you have to set up forecasting criteria so that Fire Prevention Mobile (MobileEyes) knows which occupants to schedule for an annual and which to schedule for a bi-annual. You can use the IFC Occupancy Type or the NFIRS Occupancy Classification to identify which occupants get which inspection types. There are other criteria you can also use, but Occupancy Type and Occupancy Classification are the two most often used.