Mobile Computing
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Issue Overview
Mobile computing can be described as the use of portable rugged devices and/ or tablets within the field to conduct information collection (i.e. field monitoring, ambient monitoring, or habitat monitoring) or field work (i.e. collection and inspection).
When conducting field information collection, mobile devices allow for monitors to report real-time field data. In addition to collecting standard data, mobile devices allow for the collection and implementation of specific data collection protocols (e.g. the process by which data is being collected). Inspection and enforcement activities apply additional needs around data collection including data comparison between permits and requirements and the facility or data inspection source. An example of this would be the inspection of underground storage tanks.
Opportunity Space
Best practices and common processes around the flow of data, co-development of software and shared knowledge around best computing devices enable cost future cost savings for both state’s involved and future participants.
Potential Next Steps or Solutions for EITLC Consideration
- Field data collection protocols could be shared in an effort to improve the data collection process within the field.
- Mobile device software could share or co-develop.
- Sharing about good devices. More applicable for inspection rather than field data computing, however relevant to both is the process you use to replicate data to and from the environmental database. The EITCL might consider developing flows for both inputs from collector to the database as well as exchange from the individual database to the national system. Examples of such flows include; fish count, habitat, and macro invertebrate survey to determine biological integrity.
- If the process by which data is exchanged between databases becomes common practice among various collectors then collaboration around a translator is possible.
