Clients
Android Case Studies
Bay Area Air Quality Management District - Geospatial Components Integration With Mobile Field App
Challenge
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is responsible for maintaining air quality standards within the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. BAAQMD needed to develop and integrate geospatial functionality into backend applications for permitting, engineering, and enforcement used for daily operations. They also wanted to build and integrate a mobile application into their system to support inspectors in the field.
Solution
Farallon developed and integrated geospatial functionality into the District's customer facing permitting application and internal SharePoint portal that contained all of the District's spatially related data. Farallon also developed an Android-based mobile application and integrated it into the District's production system to support coordination between inspectors in the field and managers in the District's office.
Cal EMA Enterprise GIS and CAL-SABER Web Application
Challenge
The California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) needed an Enterprise GIS integrated with it core IT and business workflows that would offer it in-house capability to quickly disseminate critical geospatial datasets and applications in support of its mission of statewide emergency mitigation, response, and recovery.
Solution
Farallon developed an Enterprise GIS and data model for the thousands of GIS layers that the Cal EMA warehouses, along with a web-based GIS viewer to visualize the location and extent of incident data such as wild fires, accidents or swine flu outbreaks. Farallon also developed a prototype Android-based mobile application for collection of real-time field data during an emergency training exercise.
TKT STPR iPhone & Android App helps avoid parking tickets in San Francisco
Challenge
General Eyeballs was in process of developing an iPhone & Android application to help drivers avoid parking tickets in San Francisco as well as other major urban centers. No central database of citywide parking regulations and restrictions in San Francisco existed so one had to be created that could intelligently integrate sophisticated spatial and non-spatial data.
Solution
Farallon Geographics integrated a variety of data sources from the City of San Francisco including point datasets for parking meter locations and non-spatial (i.e. tabular) datasets such as time restrictions and street cleaning schedules using sophisticated geospatial processing techniques to correctly position all the data on the right street segment and on the correct side of the street.
Mobile Data Collection Application using Android
Challenge
A Bay Area city needed a comprehensive and accurate storm drain geodatabase and geometric network to support their stormwater infrastructure planning, operations, and maintenance. They wanted it efficient for field crew data collection of 12000+ storm drain features, and real-time trackable by office managers.
Solution
Farallon developed an Android-based workflow-driven mobile data collection application to streamline the process of data collection and synchronize with the City's central database in both network connected (3G or Wi-Fi) and disconnected environments. Managers in the office track real-time progress using a simple Google Earth interface.