Ashoka
A Web Server – Android Client Application
for Remote Field Surveys with GPS tracking

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established in Jan ’05
User Interface Design and User Experience Design
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A Web Server – Android Client Application for Remote Field Surveys with
GPS – based tracking
• Neev simplified the task of conducting surveys for the client’s field
survey agents who were located in different places.
• This was achieved through the Field Survey application.
• The application replaced paper-based surveys with surveys on
Android devices like smart phones and tablets.
• The solution consists of a web application along with an Android
client and features such as GPS-based location tracking of
surveyors, offline data collection and real-time online updates.
• It not only increased productivity manifold but also improved
accuracy.

The Client
• Ashoka, one of the world’s largest networks of social entrepreneurs,
has 3000 Ashoka fellows present across 70 countries.
• Ashoka was founded in the year 1980 by Bill Drayton.
• It provides start-up financing, professional support services and also
connects social entrepreneurs to a global pool across various
businesses and social sectors.
• Ashoka provides a platform to enable people to change the world.
• It works in partnership with players in the private, philanthropic and
citizen sectors to drive large-scale innovation.

Business Need
• Ashoka employs many field survey agents who are geographically distributed
across remote areas, to conduct surveys.
• These field survey agents used to carry numerous sheets of paper and filled
them up manually.
• Even a small change in a survey form required the entire bunch of sheets to be
reprinted. The same had to be distributed to all the field survey agents placed
in remote areas.
• Also, the responses from the surveys contained many human errors
sometimes requiring the survey to be conducted again.
• This manual process not only consumed time but also decreased productivity.
• The client, thus, required an on-the-go solution for its field survey agents to
conduct surveys.

Neev Solution
• Neev’s approach involved making an app that avoids human errors while increasing
productivity manifold. The solution involved a Web application and an Android client
app.
• The Web Application is an admin console for the authorized user to create, edit and
publish surveys and to view the responses near real-time. The admin can selectively
publish surveys.
• The client application was installed in Android devices of field survey agents.
• The agents can take surveys as per the questionnaire, click snaps of supporting
documents like the ration card/voters card using the client application.
• To keep track of the location of the field agents, the Android application sent the GPS
co-ordinates of the device to the web server every time the agent took a survey.
• The task of sending the responses and processing the filled-in forms, which would
normally take hours or even days, is now done with the click of a button with real-time
syncing of responses with the webserver.

Top Features
• Web-based questionnaire builder.
• Local storage of responses - continuous saving of responses even in areas without internet
connectivity.
• Each response gets tagged with the latitude/longitude automatically and is displayed on a
map on the web portal, along with location of data collectors and timestamp of responses.
• Useful for taking photographs of respondents or of locations or documents.
• Reports surveyor location as well as number of responses from each surveyor / auditor.
• Reports are updated online in near real-time as soon as new responses are synced.
• Provides responses in CSV files that can be viewed in Excel or used as input to other
software.
• Admin can manage users and select surveys to be made visible to each user.
• Displays results in tabular and graphical formats.
• Ensures accuracy and minimizes errors vis-à-vis paper-based solutions.
• Saves paper and decreases Ashoka’s carbon footprint.

Technology Footprint
• Tomcat
• Java
• CouchDB
• HTML/CSS
• JQuery
• Android SDK

Top Challenges
• Keeping track of the location of its field agents scattered across many regions
and verifying the authenticity of data filled in the forms proved to be a
challenge.

Clients

Partnerships

Neev Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
sales@neevtech.com
India - Bangalore India - Pune
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#13 L’Square, 3rd Floor
Dickenson Road
Parihar Chowk, Aundh,
Bangalore-560042
Pune – 411007.
Phone :+91 80 25594416
Phone : +91-64103338
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