US 2013/0086205 A1 · DATA GATHERING USING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE

Abstract

Systems and methods for field data gathering and which provide flexible configuration options for a central office. The system, run from, mobile computing devices, provides a free-flowing data gathering experience while only requiring what the central office needs from the field. The central office can configure the system to accept different types of data by way of different data input means available to the mobile computing device. Only the data needed by the central office need be collected by the mobile device operator. The data format is defined by the central office and is uploaded to each of the relevant mobile computing devices for use by the operators. Once each data set has been collected by an operator, the data package with the data set is scheduled for transmission to the central office once a connection with the central office can be made.

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A system for gathering data at a location remote from a central office, the system comprising:

a data format receiver for receiving a data format from said central office;
a data aggregator for aggregating data gathered by an operator into a data package having a format according to said data format received from said central office, said data format comprising a plurality of data nodes having an internal tree structure, said tree structure comprising:
a root node, said root node determining a type for said data package;
a plurality data nodes, at least one data node being nested from said root node;
a plurality of data input modules for providing data to be entered into said data nodes, at least one of said data input modules entering data into a data node upon activation by said operator;
a data transmitter for transmitting said data package to said central office;
wherein said system operates as part of a mobile computing device.

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Data gathering using a mobile computing device

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Data gathering using a mobile computing device

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Abstract

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