Everyday in Saskatchewan, Environmental Project Officers (EPOs) conduct drinking water quality inspections. Inspections are performed, often in remote locations, in facilities with widely varied temperatures and humidity levels. Traditionally, these types of conditions were not favourable to computerized technologies so inspection data was collected on paper forms, then transported back to an office for manual data re-entry into a database application.
Ruggedized computers combined with recent Oracle technology offerings (Oracle Database Lite 10g) enabled the Ministry of Environment to optimize their Remote Inspection Data Capture practices.
From September 2008 to February 2009, the Ministry of Environment's Environmental Protection Branch, the Information Technology Office (ITO) and ESTI Consulting Services worked together to develop and implement the Remote Inspection Data Capture solution:
The Ministry now has 20 EPOs in the field using RIDC and the Ministry has realized measurable improvements in their ability to measure the quality of water in the Province.
Technically, this project was completed using Oracle Database Lite 10g and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for .NET Framework. These components work together to manage all data synchronization between the field and central databases. Updates to the RIDC software are performed automatically during synchronization with the central database server. This means that remote support for the software is minimized: an important feature with field technologies.
ESTI would like to congratulate the Ministry of Environment and the ITO on the successful completion of this pilot project.
RIDC Training Session for EPOs
RIDC Training Session for EPOs
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