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Start your arc flash study or electrical system project upgrade with VAON.
Leave the paper in the plotter and pens in your backpack. Your iPad is all you need for your next site walk. Easily scan, record, and organize information about building electrical systems during the walkthrough. VAON makes it easy to keep track of where you are in the building and where equipment is located with its floor plan interface. For panelboards, transformers, circuit breakers, disconnects, and more, use VAON’s smart capture feature to take photos of the equipment’s labels and let the app extract and organize the technical data automatically. Finish the site walk with a complete record of building’s electrical system that’s ready to share with your electrician or engineer. Export from VAON into your design or electrical systems analysis software to cut out the tedious data entry and jump start the project.

Why Owners and Facilities Managers choose VAON
• Get quotes from more electricians quickly for competitive pricing
• Supplement out-of-date as-builts with accurate information
• Stop losing time coordinating site walks and escorts for contractors

Why Electricians and Contractors choose VAON
• Spend more time on site understanding the customer’s needs and less time fiddling with cameras, paper, and pens
• Streamline project data hand-off to estimating

Why Engineers choose VAON
• Streamline data collection for electrical systems studies and renovation projects
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between as-builts and existing conditions quickly and easily at the beginning of the project
• Focus on data completeness and accuracy rather than data entry
• Stop burning time on data transcription. Export from VAON directly into design and analysis desktop software

Key Features
1. Floor Plan
• Load a PDF floor plan as an underlay
• Use to navigate the building and add equipment in the observed locations
• Set drawing scale and inter-floor distances to auto-compute conduit and wire lengths

2. Single Line Diagramming
• Equipment added to the floor plan automatically appears in the single line
• Single line is arranged automatically as connections between equipment are established
• Review distribution system at a glance including circuit breaker ratings and conductor gauges

3. Smart Capture
• Take a photo of a label, nameplate, or circuit directory. VAON uses optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the relevant information and store it in the data fields for the equipment.
4. Export
• Share the photos from the site walk pre-organized by equipment name
• Output an updated PDF showing the locations and names of the equipment captured
• Export the data into text files for import into design and analysis desktop software
Get VAON now and fast-track your next electrical project.
Questions? Need assistance? Ideas for new features? Reach out. VAON was created based on firsthand experience in electrical construction and design. We want to see it help fellow practitioners achieve new levels of efficiency in their work.