MWFM ( Mobile Work Force Management) Increasing field operations by 4X and bringing down cost to 6X on Human resources.

Code, Coffee and tracking 2m Users ..

How we helped our African friend to break the ice and board 2m Voters?

Tracking 2m+ voters and 3000+ agents

Day 2 at Hannover messe was a bright sunny day. I was gathering my thoughts and plans for the day, as we had couple of meetings and presentations lined up on this day. At sharp 11:30 AM I gave my presentation on HealthCare Product www.prapp.in (a platfrom for health engagement connecting patients to doctors). As soon as my presentation was over, there were some folks who were interested in doctor-patient engagement platform. There was absolutely no breather in between. I just grabbed my cup of coffee and headed towards my booth.

I observed that day 2 was a rush rush at Hannover. Lot of delegates from different countries were visiting the fair. Suddenly some African folks in a team of 3 dropped by at our booth and here starts our conversation:

– Mr. Bamaba: is this Sid from iView Labs

– me: yes , I hope you are doing great! How may I help you!

– Mr. Bamaba: Do you do location tracking and mapping?

– Me: Sir, I would like to hear the problem that you are facing..

– Mr. Bamaba: We need to map all the voters of Africa on the map. We want to verify their identity and address. To do these we send agents on the field who do it manually and all these data gets centralized. Since its a manual process we were having lot of data issues and productivity. We are here looking to solve this issue

– Me: Ok Sir, I understand your problem. So, what these agents would be carrying with them to verify the voter.

– Mr. Bamaba: These agents will be carrying our assigned tablets for verification. Look we have 3000+ Agents who are in field of collection of the electoral census and here we need to observe their day to day actions as per the geographies they are moving. Can you develop me a platform where in I can see all these agents in real time? I have to catch the coordinates and want to see the efficiency and methods they are adopting to do this quick exercise. Also I want to assign the further tasks of Route Optimization

– Me: In a nutshell, I was completely able to understand what my friend was looking to build. Me and My CTO was there and we explained him our methodology of working and strategy of building this solution.

After all the explanation, he seemed convinced to do business with us and finally we were able to strike the deal with our African friends.

As the project kicked off, my technical team started brainstorming about the project and came up with the complete technology stack and architecture for the project. For this solution, we knew the crux of the entire solution would be accurate position mapping, path tracking and real monitoring of agents. Also, the tricky part here was about offline position tracking due to network connectivity issue in small villages and data pruning as position mapping of each agent for each second would generate enormous data in the application.

With the technical risks identified, we started working on the project and were very thrilled to work on this as we saw that how this solution could be used for various industries who has a mobile force or field force. We realized the scalability and reusability of this project, hence we made this in a modular form where entire location tracking module is an independent module which could be rightly fitted into any industry.

We started working on day and night on this project to get this all right. We send our guys on the field to test in all various conditions such as speed variance, location variance etc.

Finally we were able to get all the systems in place and deliver it to our African friends.

The entire data of the application rests on AWS ( Amazon Web Services) cloud.

With our approach to take software development as the Lego and Brick Building job we were able to deliver this solution in span of 3 months.

With over 2 million Voters on Board of eCampaign and 3000+ agents on the admin side the eVoting, this was a huge success for our mobile workforce management solution.

Admin Panel( Operations Guys) for tracking the field force :-

Android App ( for the field force/Agents in the fields) : –

Here the entire Platform does the following job for the African government : –

1. Task management
2. Task allocation
3. Task control
4. Voters geography tracking
5. Agents tracking
6. Task completion
7. Real time visibility

Data analytics per Agent and Voters

Business benefit to our African friend:

50+ Nos of Men power reduction by Using the eVoting eCampaign solutions.
Improvement in HR process to know the real productivity by real time tracking on faily field activities.
Cost savings to a multiple times and bringing in lean business.
Perfect tracking of census with error free data.

Is DATA the new energy?

I think we should stop looking at data in the form of petabytes, zettabytes etc rather we need to have a new perspective to look at data in the form of energy. An energy which is renewable in nature and can be used in multiple forms to serve more than one purpose. An energy can be generated from multiple sources such as sun, wind, geothermal, biomass etc. in the same manner Data energy can be created from multiple sources. Data in the raw form is of no use unless it is extracted, processed and refined to make it to use. In the similar manner we need to extract and process the energy to have its maximize use.

Data uncaptured, unprocessed is a loss of energy for businesses to build insights which can help them make sound decisions. The value of the data in a business keeps on growing with the new pieces of information added. Critical insights of the business can be drawn with the right technology in place to refine your data.

Energy storage is capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time. This is so relevant and apt if we draw an analogy for the same in terms of data. Data is also captured at a given time to make it to use at a later stages. We need huge storages to store large amount of energy and same is the case is with data. These data storages are huge in terms of processing power to manage BIG DATA. Energy storage involves converting energy from forms that are difficult to store to more conveniently or economically storable forms. The question here how we can apply the same principle for data being stored? How we constantly churn raw data from these data storages into different meaningful forms.

Unlike other energies, the biggest advantage of Data is we don’t have to worry about its depletion, we only have to worry about its refinement and extraction with the desire to improve efficiencies and make informed decisions.

Of course, lot of analogies can be drawn between energy and data for us to handle our new digital age of IoT sensors. In every ecosystem, there is a main producer of the energy and there are different levels of consumers and producers which co-exist in the system. In the digital Age of sensors and devices, we need to make devices intelligent enough to coexist as a data consumer & producer to create a meaning out of the ecosystem.

We at iView Labs are constantly thriving to create that coexistence of data energy consumer & producer.

Journey of an intern at iView Labs

Name: Pankti Dave
Position: Junior Software Developer

‘Sometimes it is the journey that teaches you a lot about your destinations’. Something like this happened to me, when I started my journey with iView Labs. iView has made me believe that even a layman like me can sail into the deep world of coding and technology. My experience was as similar as a sapling growing under the shadow of enormous trees. Every day is new for me as each day I have a new challenge in front of me. Learning about the future technologies makes me leap into the future. Being a newcomer in the industry I got to know so many new things about the technologies that I have never heard of. Things like Augmented reality, multi touch applications have always drawn my curiosity, but iView turned my imaginations into reality by giving me this wonderful opportunity to work on the finest of the technologies.

As the roads that leads to beautiful destinations are never easy, my journey is a bit challenging, where each day I struggle to explore and learn new technologies but nevertheless at the end of the day I have a good sleep making me feel content of the work done for the day. At initial stages, it was difficult but now I have learned to overcome challenges on my journey and find optimal solutions to conquer the situations better.My journey would have never been so flawless without the due support of the “TECHNICAL GEEKS” here. The atmosphere here is so inspiring that each day I leave home with a positive feeling of reaching closer to my goal.

“A team becomes more powerful when it is led by a skillful midfielder”. The best part here is the open mindedness and the freedom that you get to put forward your own views. The Leaders here believe in making creators and not followers.

I feel very proud to be an intrinsic part of this team “iView Crafters”, where we craft technology. It has made me believe that even a small fish can sail in the big ocean.