Grounds Maintenance with Jewel

Managing public spaces is one of the core responsibilities of local authorities. From parks to squares, and from roads to street lighting — everything must remain clean, safe and liveable for residents. Traditional maintenance of public spaces is often time-consuming and comes with high costs. Jewel Software digitises this process, making the management of public spaces more efficient, transparent and future-oriented.

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From Field to Office: Complete Control over Public Space Operations

Grounds Maintenance Solutions

With Jewel, local authorities gain full control over the planning, execution and monitoring of activities in areas such as:

  • Green space maintenance (parks, trees and grass areas)

  • Roads, pavements and surfacing

  • Public lighting

  • Waste management and cleaning

  • Playgrounds and street furniture

  • Water and sewage systems

  • Reports and complaints from residents

 

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AI-Powered Inspections

Revolutionise the way you inspect and manage public spaces. Cameras capture images whilst driving through the area, and AI identifies issues such as weeds, litter and overgrowth. After review, tasks are created in Jewel. Teams receive them on their tablets, carry out the work and report back in real time. This reduces the need for inspections, speeds up responses, and enhances the quality of public spaces.

Efficient. Automated. Reliable.

From Challenges to Solutions

Key Challenges

- Inefficient routing with paper-based routes that don’t adapt to real-time changes.

- Lack of real-time visibility, leaving planners unsure which stops are completed.

- Poor communication between drivers and planners, causing delays and mistakes.

- Manual documentation slows reports, increases complaints, and reduces efficiency.

- Driver reallocation is difficult, limiting flexibility during staff changes.

- Limited flexibility for order-based or ad hoc collections.

- No performance insight makes it hard to analyse trends and improve.

How Jewel helps?

+ Digital route maps replace paper, showing collection points and completed stops.

+ Real-time updates guide drivers step-by-step while planners track progress live.

+ Flexible driver deployment enables quick reassignment of routes when required.

+ Simplified planning supports door-to-door and order-based collections in one workflow.

+ Reduced reporting effort lowers complaints and boosts transparency.

+ Live dashboards provide immediate clarity on status and delays.

+ Full accountability with logged tasks for analysis and audits.

Success Story Knipscheer Infra-Clean

Ready to Streamline Grounds Maintenance?

Keeping the streets clean and green is no small task, especially when your team and service area are growing fast. For Knipscheer Infra-Clean, the old way of working with paper maps, verbal handovers, and scattered notes was no longer enough. Mistakes, double work, and lost time were becoming daily challenges.

That’s when they decided to make the leap to digitalisation. With Jewel Software, Knipscheer now has real-time insight, streamlined planning, and complete control over their operations. Discover how a hands-on approach and practical implementation turned complexity into clarity and why both managers and fieldworkers wouldn’t go back.

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Street Sweeping

Sweeping public areas consists of a wide range of tasks. For example, you have to enter and plan sweeping routes, brief drivers and report results. With the help of Jewel, you can set up the entire work process digitally. As a result, you will become faster and effective in the execution of your sweeping work.

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Unfound mowing areas, forgotten sections, or fields that were (partly) not supposed to be mowed, such as flower strips. Damage caused by missing data on flora, fauna, and hard-to-see obstacles.The lack of reporting and proper documentation. How can we prevent these, and many other frustrations?

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Why choose for Jewel Software?

As dedicated grounds maintenance software, Jewel offers a digital platform that gives councils and contractors real-time insights — for example into maintenance tasks or budgets. The system’s integrations and dashboards are intuitive and easy to use. As a result, management becomes not only more efficient, but also more transparent for residents as well as for drivers and contractors. What we offer? 

Efficient and digital processes

Efficient and digital processes

Less paperwork and administrative burden

Less paperwork and administrative burden

Access to data anytime, anywhere

Access to data anytime, anywhere

Smart route planning and optimization

Smart route planning and optimization

Sustainable and cost-saving solutions

Sustainable and cost-saving solutions

Better collaboration between teams

Better collaboration between teams

FAQ - Grounds Maintenance

Find the answer to frequently asked questions about Jewel Software Grounds Maintanence.
What is Grounds Maintenance?

Grounds maintenance is about taking care of everything that residents of a municipality see and use on a daily basis. This includes streets, green areas, playgrounds and many other public locations. Grounds maintenance therefore covers both the upkeep of green spaces and the wider management of outdoor areas. The goal is clear: keeping the environment clean, safe and liveable.

Who is Responsible for Grounds Maintenance?

The primary responsibility for grounds maintenance lies with local authorities. They must organise and carry out maintenance effectively, often involving contractors or other external parties to perform specific tasks with specialist expertise. Increasingly, councils are also turning to digital tools. Jewel Software is one of these solutions, helping to manage processes in a smarter and more efficient way.

How much time does it take to implement 1 workflow?

2 training sessions of approximately 1.5 hours. 

What is the implementation process like?

First a Kick-off meeting in which goals and an implementation schedule are set. Then follow the training sessions (2 per work type) training 1: work preparation / training 2: making and planning of routes. Apart from the training we have a meeting once a month in which we monitor the progress of the implementation process. 

Does Jewel have automatically calculated routes based on production standards?

Because of the diversity of work types are supported in Tasks, we did not see a need yet, but might develop this in the future. 

Can I plan persons and vehicles in Jewel?

No we cannot link persons and vehicles to routes (this is due to privacy issues). Also a link with a capacity planning system is currently not possible. This may become possible in the future. 

What is the minimum requirement of purchase?

Minimum purchase of 5 apps and no pilot 

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