An Android based mobile application for crowd sourcing
Bhuvan HFA App is a user-friendly mobile application which enables to collect and report information on various stages of construction of Houses in Housing for All scheme. This mobile app will provide a platform environment for controlled crowd sourcing to build spatial database on Bhuvan Geo-platform.
When the app is opened for the first time, the user is expected to fill in his/her profile details. The details provided will be used only for the purpose to identify the source of data and will not be shared with anyone. The details required to be entered under "Profile" are 1) User ID, 2) Your Name. 3) Your Mobile Number and 4) Your Organisation. After entering all the details, Click on 'Get Ben' icon. This enable provision to select State, District and Town details and downloads beneficiary information of the selected town. This activity needs internet connectivity in the mobile via GPRS/3G/4G/WiFi and the app will take you to home page automatically. If the user wants to update the beneficiary details click on "Update Ben" icon.
The user is advised to ensure GPS is switched-on with high accuracy before using opening the app for data collection.
The step by step by procedure for using the app is given below. The main tasks in this app are 1) User is first select the beneficiary info and move ahead with collecting location information using GPS , 2) Taking photograph of the location (two photos), 3) Adding additional information about the location and 4) Sending the collected information to Bhuvan HFA server, either immediately or later.
Instructions
Step 1. First user must select the beneficiary details using auto-complete list view. Once the user key-in alphabet related beneficiary details (Beneficiary ID, Name, Fathers Name and address) appear in dropdown menu. On selection, an alert with complete beneficiary details appear and on confirmation user can move ahead with collecting other field parameters.
Step 2. Check for GPS accuracy notification on the top. When the accuracy is less than 10 m, tap the "GPS" icon to collect the location (Latitude and Longitude) details. A confirmation window pops-up with GPS accuracy. Tap "OK" if the accuracy is acceptable, otherwise tap "Cancel" to cancel the collection of location data and wait for some more time to get better GPS accuracy. Ensure that there is a clear sky view for receiving GPS satellite signals.
Step 3. The app has provision to capture and upload two photographs of the location. Tap the "Photo" icon to activate your mobile camera for taking photographs. Accept the first photo taken with your mobile camera and tap the "Photo" icon again to take the second photograph. Then accept the second photograph.
You can preview the photographs taken by tapping the "Preview" icon that appears below the "Photo" icon
Open Preview
Close Preview
Step 4. The user is expected to upload additional information about the location by tapping "Attribute" icon. The information such as (i) Type of construction, (ii) House Type, (iii) Electricity, etc or any other related description about the location can be uploaded using this option.
Step 5. Once the user is satisfied with the information collected and ready for uploading the information to Bhuvan HFA server, user may tap the "Send" icon. This will upload all the information collected by the user. User is advised to ensure that mobile data is switched-on before tapping the "Send" icon. A confirmation message "Data sent successfully" appears once the upload is successful.
Step 6. In case of non-availability of Internet connectivity, the user is advised to tap "Save" icon. This will store the information collected as a data in the mobile itself. Once the Internet connectivity is available, user may follow Step 7 to upload the data to Bhuvan HFA server.
Step 7. In order to upload the saved data to Bhuvan HFA server, user is advised to tap "Manage" icon. Then tap "Send Later" icon. This will list the data collected and stored in the mobile. Please select the data that needs to be uploaded and then tap "Send" icon to upload the data to Bhuvan HFA server. A confirmation message "Data sent successfully" appears once the upload is successful.
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Managing your data
The app provides facility for the user to manage the data uploaded by the user. User can view the sent data and also view any data that failed to upload. This will enable user to upload the data again by tapping "Sent Failed" icon. Users may note that there is provision to edit attribute value in "Send Later" and "Sent Failed" options.
User can also view or edit the profile information by tapping "Profile" icon.
To exit from the software, tap "Exit" icon.
