Mobile Field Data Collection With Fulcrum

Slides from a webinar presentation I gave for CartoDB on 3-18-2015.

Transcript

1. Mobile Field Data Collection with March 18th, 2015
3. • What is Fulcrum? • How does it work? • How does Fulcrum integrate with CartoDB? • How are folks currently using Fulcrum with CartoDB to optimize their data collection workflow? • What’s next? Questions? Webinar Agenda
4. • Hosted Software as a Service • Web-based admin console with drag-and-drop form designer • Native mobile clients for Android & iOS What is Fulcrum? Flexible platform for building structured data collection apps
5. offline, map-centric approach full, offline usability is what defines fulcrum
6. ease of use & customization web-based drag-and-drop form builder, intuitive mobile apps
7. field efficiency & data integrity intuitive user experience, field logic, QA/QC, user management
8. integration & extensibility import/export, direct API access, webhook notifications, data shares
9. Proudly powered by open source!
13. Demo time!
14. Fulcrum Data Shares • Enable publicly-available URL’s for accessing your live data feed (read only). • Must be manually enabled per app and can be disabled or regenerated at any time. • Standard data formats: GeoJSON, CSV, KML, JSON • Customizable map embed option
15. Fulcrum Webhooks • Enable push notifications for your Fulcrum account • When your data changes in Fulcrum, we push those changes to your servers in real-time • Notification events (create, update, delete) for forms, records, choice lists, and classification sets • Each webhook event will initiate a separate HTTP POST request to each webhook URL registered within the organization. • You provide the endpoint that processes the POSTed JSON payload
20. In this Age of Information, data is an increasingly valuable form of currency. The demand for fresh, actionable data is skyrocketing- across all industries and disciplines. The Opportunity...
21. Fulcrum introduces a proactive approach to the field data collection process... The act of sitting down and visually building out your data collection app forces users to think through the design of the data structure before ever heading out into the field. Better tools encourage better processes!
22. Thanks for attending! Questions? Sign up for a free trial at http://fulcrumapp.com/plans/