Questions
How field reporting works.
- Do I need an InfoEx account?
- No. Your observations live in your own database in InfoEx schema either way. If you do have an InfoEx account, you can connect it and submit approved observations outward — and read other operators’ reports back for the zones you overlap.
- Does it work with no signal?
- Capture does. Photos, voice, GPS and text are written to the device and queued, so recording never waits on a connection. Reading conditions — briefings, other operators’ reports, weather — needs a connection, because that data comes from elsewhere.
- Who can see my observations?
- Your operation, by default. Nothing is public. Where another operator’s data reaches you, it is matched by where the zones overlap on the map, never by a shared identifier, and it arrives inside a briefing rather than as raw rows.
- Is there an iPhone app?
- Not yet. Field teams use the Android app or the web app in a browser; owners and admins use the Operator Console on a desktop. An iOS build is not currently scheduled.
While a day is open, location is visible only to your own operation. It is not public, it is not shared with other operations as your track, and it is not sold. Your observations, photos, and recordings are not used to train AI models.
FieldBook is a recording and communication tool. It is not an avalanche forecast, not a safety device, and not a substitute for training, experience, judgment, or the official public bulletin for your area. AI-drafted observations and briefings are drafts for a person to review. They are not for life-safety decisions.