System and method for crowd-sourced environmental system control and maintenance

A non-transitory computer implemented method in a client- server environment, for crowd-sourced real-time, site-specific environmental compliance reporting, the method comprising:

• establishing, by a smart device application running on a client device, communication with a computer server system via a wireless computer communication system;
• scanning, by the smart device application, a tag disposed at a location of a building;
• transmitting, by the smart device application, data identifying the scanned tag to the computer server system via the wireless computer communication system;
• producing, by the smart device application, on a display of the client computer, a report graphical user interface from which the user can select (a) a building report graphical user interface through which the user provides information for a building report relating to comfort and/or maintenance of the location for storage by the computer server system based on the scanned tag or (b) an inspection report graphical user interface through which the user receives an inspection report relating to comfort and/or maintenance of the location from the computer server system based on the scanned tag including reports from other users and through which the user can add custom text or image information to the inspection report for access by other users via the computer server system including in comments on other users' reports, the inspection report graphical user interface additionally including, for each of the other users' reports, a selectable icon through which the user can indicate agreement with the other user's report;
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• transmitting, by the smart device application, to the computer server system, via the wireless computer communication system, information entered by the user via the building report graphical user interface or the inspection report graphical user interface for storage by the computer server system;
• receiving, by the smart device application, from the computer server system, via the wireless computer communication system, an automatic notification comprising status information relating to the location including custom text or image information added to inspection reports by other users and indications of agreements with reports;
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• producing, by the smart device application, on the display of the client computer, a status graphical user interface including the automatically received status information.

A computer program product comprising at least one tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied therein computer program instructions for crowd-sourced real-time, site-specific environmental compliance reporting which, when executed by at least one processor of a client computer, cause the client computer to implement a smart device application that performs processes comprising:

• establishing, by the smart device application, communication with a computer server system via a wireless computer communication system;
• scanning, by the smart device application, a tag disposed at a location of a building;
• transmitting, by the smart device application, data identifying the scanned tag to the computer server system via the wireless computer communication system;
• producing, by the smart device application, on a display of the client computer, a report graphical user interface from which the user can select (a) a building report graphical user interface through which the user provides information for a building report relating to comfort and/or maintenance of the location for storage by the computer server system based on the scanned tag or (b) an inspection report graphical user interface through which the user receives an inspection report relating to comfort and/or maintenance of the location from the computer server system based on the scanned tag including reports from other users and through which the user can add custom text or image information to the inspection report for access by other users via the computer server system including in comments on other users' reports, the inspection report graphical user interface additionally including, for each of the other users' reports, a selectable icon through which the user can indicate agreement with the other user's report;
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• transmitting, by the smart device application, to the computer server system, via the wireless computer communication system, information entered by the user via the building report graphical user interface or the inspection report graphical user interface for storage by the computer server system;
• receiving, by the smart device application, from the computer server system, via the wireless computer communication system, an automatic notification comprising status information relating to the location including custom text or image information added to inspection reports by other users and indications of agreements with reports;
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• producing, by the smart device application, on the display of the client computer, a status graphical user interface including the automatically received status information.