Guidance on Deploying Handhelds to work with Servoy?
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 4:26 pm
Having almost completed our app port to Servoy, I'm now looking at data collecting using handhelds, rather than paper and transcription.
I'd love feedback from anyone with experience in this area. Heres what I am after:
1. Handhelds need to be intrinsically safe for working in hazardous environments.
2. They need to be rugged as the Survey Engineers will be climbing around on Oil & Gas process facilities.
3. The data collected should be auto synced regularly, bi-directionally (some data will be used as library / combo feed for the data collection teams).
4. The sites may be out in the desert and we'll need to develop a local wi-fi network with a laptop to do the syncing.
5. Laptop will sync with the server at some point.
A lot of things I'm not sure of at this point:
a. What sort of development environment should I be looking at for the creation of the handheld collection forms (is there some Servoy tools available ala iPhone type tools - or is MS Win the best direction)?
b. What Db should we be thinking about for the Handhelds (I'm thinking MSSQL Compact might be the only option and if so then a. will probably be Visual Studio I'd need to go on suicide watch if that happens LOL)?
c. Is there technology available for syncing directly with Servoy from a handheld?
d. Is there any resource easily available to guide on this sort of deployment.
e. Have any of you guy's been through this loop already?
f. Is there any way I can keep all of this development within the Servoy loop?
g. Any experience on specific handheld devices?
Any feedback would be welcome - obviously I'm going to do some in depth research but our Servoyians have such diverse experience that I figured I might just save from re-inventing the wheel by asking here first!
Cheers
I'd love feedback from anyone with experience in this area. Heres what I am after:
1. Handhelds need to be intrinsically safe for working in hazardous environments.
2. They need to be rugged as the Survey Engineers will be climbing around on Oil & Gas process facilities.
3. The data collected should be auto synced regularly, bi-directionally (some data will be used as library / combo feed for the data collection teams).
4. The sites may be out in the desert and we'll need to develop a local wi-fi network with a laptop to do the syncing.
5. Laptop will sync with the server at some point.
A lot of things I'm not sure of at this point:
a. What sort of development environment should I be looking at for the creation of the handheld collection forms (is there some Servoy tools available ala iPhone type tools - or is MS Win the best direction)?
b. What Db should we be thinking about for the Handhelds (I'm thinking MSSQL Compact might be the only option and if so then a. will probably be Visual Studio I'd need to go on suicide watch if that happens LOL)?
c. Is there technology available for syncing directly with Servoy from a handheld?
d. Is there any resource easily available to guide on this sort of deployment.
e. Have any of you guy's been through this loop already?
f. Is there any way I can keep all of this development within the Servoy loop?
g. Any experience on specific handheld devices?
Any feedback would be welcome - obviously I'm going to do some in depth research but our Servoyians have such diverse experience that I figured I might just save from re-inventing the wheel by asking here first!
Cheers