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Long Description
This figure describes the process of data collection. There are five oval shapes each of which houses one stage of collecting data. The first oval has a picture of a Cassiopeia PDA. It is gray in color and is being held by an individual with the left hand while using the right hand to enter data using the pen. This shows the process of entering data into a mobile data collector. The next three ovals represent the components of the mobile data collecting system. The first oval is about software which needs to be considered in developing such a system such as operating systems, and applications such as form design, form, database, and connectivity. The next oval represents the mobile hardware and shows a picture of a PDA which acts as a data collecting system. The picture is a drawing of a gray PDA with a blue screen and it has an antenna. The fourth oval represents the peripherals which are input devices such as touch screens, soft keypad, keyboard, writing stylus, bar code reader, digital camera and microphone. Next is the process of data transmission which can be done by a number of means such as WI-FI, Bluetooth, Wireless phone, and hard or infrared sync modem. Lastly is the process of data storage. Once data is collected and transmitted it needs to be stores appropriately and the means used are network servers, website servers, hard drive, jump drive, and CD’s.