E-Acquisition System for Images in Mobile Environment
Lodhi, Aurangzeb (2017)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053111480
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017053111480
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The main goal of the project was to create a new mobile application for the employees and sub-contractors of the case company. It allows storing of files and images directly into the company’s database from a project location.
The case company provides planning and consulting services for constructions projects of bridges and concrete structures, railways, urban planning and land use. The rapid expansion of the company’s construction business has caused the need for a mobile software application that allows its subcontractors to communicate with the company’s database on-site and remotely. This thesis focuses on a mobile software design to facilitate the management of useful data to and from the company’s construction project at particular sites as well as a tool for users to interact with the company’s database.
Previously, the company used its own website as a way to communicate with their contractors and sub-contractors and to inform and update its customers. With the latest trends on the market, some customers are active users of interactive websites that may not be user friendly for mobile phones whereas others need a mobile solution for interaction when they are on the field. Ignoring a group that does not use interactive websites or do not have the time to use laptops and PCs that use interactive websites would result in a huge loss for the growing business.
This thesis addresses and tackles these issues in three steps. First, the purpose was to create a mobile software application to interact remotely with the employees and clients of the company. This included a careful selection of the elements of the company’s website that can actually be utilized by mobile customers and employees. This directly provides an alternative to the website the company has long relied on for interaction with its employees and clients. The next phase included the design and development of a custom Windows Phone application for the company’s extranet.
In the last phase of the project, Windows phone built-in features were utilized to show their interaction with the application and the results were analyzed.
The case company provides planning and consulting services for constructions projects of bridges and concrete structures, railways, urban planning and land use. The rapid expansion of the company’s construction business has caused the need for a mobile software application that allows its subcontractors to communicate with the company’s database on-site and remotely. This thesis focuses on a mobile software design to facilitate the management of useful data to and from the company’s construction project at particular sites as well as a tool for users to interact with the company’s database.
Previously, the company used its own website as a way to communicate with their contractors and sub-contractors and to inform and update its customers. With the latest trends on the market, some customers are active users of interactive websites that may not be user friendly for mobile phones whereas others need a mobile solution for interaction when they are on the field. Ignoring a group that does not use interactive websites or do not have the time to use laptops and PCs that use interactive websites would result in a huge loss for the growing business.
This thesis addresses and tackles these issues in three steps. First, the purpose was to create a mobile software application to interact remotely with the employees and clients of the company. This included a careful selection of the elements of the company’s website that can actually be utilized by mobile customers and employees. This directly provides an alternative to the website the company has long relied on for interaction with its employees and clients. The next phase included the design and development of a custom Windows Phone application for the company’s extranet.
In the last phase of the project, Windows phone built-in features were utilized to show their interaction with the application and the results were analyzed.