A pressure transducer has a cane waveguide geometry with \u201cside-holes\u201d in the cane waveguide cross-section that reduce the force required to compress the waveguide. A ratchet mechanism couples to a handle to re-vector the handle in order to reduce the operational footprint of the device to accommodate obstacles and operate successfully in confined and limited access spaces. There is at least one opening in its side wall. The gateway layer includes a plurality of input connector routines to communicate with each of the plurality of source systems and a plurality of output connector routines to communicate with each of the plurality of target systems. The rated attributes so obtained are then combined, in order to define a single cumulative index for each job and a single cumulative index for each application.