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Instrument for market installers

Overview

Pocket-PC

Protocol Resources were to be saved and processes accelerated. That was the vision of my boss at the time. We set up markets, most of the big names in the industry were our customers. The fitters were given mobile devices and were supposed to document their work in the store and send the data straight away. The store manager can view and approve the logs and photos immediately afterwards.

Pocket-PC-App

Protocol

Protocol At the start of the project 2005, the most suitable mobile devices for this were Pocket PCs (also PDAs) with Windows CE as the operating system. That's why I developed the first apps in C# using the .NET Compact Framework. At the time, I invested the most brainpower in a reliable transmission module, there were still no stable networks like 3/4/5G and certainly not nationwide. But the framework had everything. All the data you needed could be accessed with the app: Photos, signatures, lots of logs, etc. In the end, everything ended up on our web server. There, photos were cropped, protocol data (XML) was read out, everything was integrated into PDF files and assigned to the respective market.

Protocol

Android-App

Protocol

Protocol After numerous updates, e.g. to Windows Mobile, our technology was outdated. The mobile device hardware changed rapidly over the years and Google's Android had now established itself. The pocket PC was out, tablets and smartphones were now taking over. However, our program had proved its worth and was to be rewritten in Java for Android. The network coverage had also been expanded, so the conversion was easier than expected. As before, most of the work was adapting the protocols to specific market requirements. Each company had its own special requirements.

Protocol

Protocol

Web-App

Protocol There was also little uniformity in terms of the content and display of data in the web area of the individual markets. As a service provider, we had to take every sensitivity into account. In practical terms, this meant that the generation of content on the web server was different for each market.

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