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Business Challenge
Our customer wanted to use camera phones to capture images of remote work sites
to share visual work reports with its office staff. It was determined that to increase productivity of these visual communications an iPhone application to increase productivity of these visual communications was necessary first. Later the application needed to be ported to other popular mobile platforms - Android and J2ME.
Software Solution
Axmor's developers created software that allows
the mobile crew to take pictures at the work location, create a custom hierarchical
catalog on the phone, quickly organize pictures by category, add comments, and send
the work report to the server over GPRS. The work reports are then processed at
the office by the internal application.
Axmor mobile developers provided an excellent solution for each
customer requirement:
- Advanced picture management
Compared to the capabilities of the camera phone in original configuration, the
developed application provides advanced image management functions, thus saving
time for picture storage and retrieval. The images can be accompanied by job details
and verbal comments.
- Reports shared with the office
When completed, the photo-report is sent to the server and the server returns a
delivery status response. Axmor's mobile developers specified a format for data exchange
between the phone and the server. A series of conference calls was set up with the
server software developers to match our specifications with the server software
architecture. The subsequently designed internal and external communication protocols
were based on HTTP POST requests.
Because the work related data is transferred over the Internet, one of our customer's
major concerns was security. Axmor's developers analyzed our customer's requirements,
did the necessary research, and then recommended an inexpensive HTTP Basic Authentication
tool. We also consulted our customer in obtaining an SSL certificate required for
https connections.
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BRIEF:
The Mobile application allows field engineers to create
work reports accompanied by images of remote work sites and send them to the server
over GPRS.
BENEFITS:
Axmor developers delivered a mobile application that
provides
- Easy and time-effective management of job sites from the office
- Consistent and user-friendly interface design
- Secure phone-to-server communications
TECHNOLOGIES:
- iPhone SDK
- Cocoa-Touch
- Objective C
- RIM JDE
- Java
- Java ME
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