Mobile application for construction industry for work flow management.

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Case Study

Quality & Process Management System App


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The application will provide a Quality and Process

Management system for the Lodha Group, a premier real

estate firm to be used by their internal employees and

vendors. The application demands a workflow

management that automates, simplifies and direct the

right flow of information to the site supervisor to schedule

and conduct inspection, illustrate issues, manage

deficiencies, generate multiple reports, add digital

images/photos and mark them up for a specific

observation in the construction workplace.

The application will define the relationship in terms of:

Organization & Communication

QA/QM Monitoring & Reviews

Risk Management

Quality Audit

Standards, Procedures and Methods

Along with the web application, there will be an android

based mobile application specially designed and developed

for QM processes which allows the site supervisor to

thoroughly inspect and audit the construction site, manage

multiple vendors, distribute work through electronic

checklist and automate reporting at all levels.

Client Requirement

The application will automate the paper-based processes and enable the site supervisor the access to project information in real time via web and mobile. The application will also focus on automated workflow, QA, turnover inspections, managing issues and deficiencies on the construction site.

Project Challenges

Team faced the following challenges:

Data management complexity of the construction sites in regard with the building

plans, building floors, checklist, compliance, quality audits etc. The team had to work

hard to create a strong background data structure to get rid of these hindrances.

Generation of various multiple and vendor specific reports based on the status of the

progress of the work with respect to buildings, flats, varied construction sites etc.

which can help the Quality Control team to assess the reports to manage deficiencies

on the site.


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Manpower

Project Manager

1

Project Leader (Web and Mobile)

2

Developers (Web and Mobile)

6

Designers (Web and Mobile)

2

Quality Assurance Testers (Web and

Mobile)

2

Understand the nature of the construction process to develop a robust workflow

management which can reduce the paper work processes and simplify the information

flow in the right direction.

Syncing of the data by the site administrators as and when required.

Integration of camera to capture images/digital photos for later observation for

each of the checklist.

Real-time location tracking feature was incorporated wherein the vendor can get

the access to the location of workers working on the respective site locations.

As anyone in the construction knows addressing defects is a part of the process.

Advanced defect tracking system was developed that captures and stores the data

for analysis and effectively manage and address all defects on schedule.

The mobile app can be fully integrated with SAP/ERP to streamline the data

collection into the SAP/ERP system and augment the business process by providing

real time workflows.

Keeping in mind the construction industry, the network issues are often encountered.

The android app seamlessly works in the offline mode and makes it possible to

synchronize the data when the network connectivity is gained.

Huge amount of data transaction handling and syncing came as a challenge for the

team. Special algorithms were written to handle the data smoothly and effectively.

The team had to deal with the large amount of images (approximately 70 to 80MB)

which is expected to increase even more at the later stage.


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Technologies Used

Operating System &

Server Management

Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production

Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server

Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups,

Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at

regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance

Development Tools &

Environments

PHP5+, Symfony Framework, FFMPEG Image Conversion Tool, Java

Script, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Eclipse, Macromedia Dreamweaver,

Adobe Photoshop etc.

Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master

Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups

Android Based OS for

Handheld Device

Samsung Tablet 2 – Android 4.0- Ice cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean

Planning

The following development approach was adopted to equip the site with numerous

features and functionality mentioned before:

Introduced high level of server and data fetching technology.

Syncing existing and newly available data for backup with our database required specific

attention. This helped in result generation.

Maintained consistency in Graphical appearance with the help of given wireframe.

Milestones were defined to complete each inter-linked assignment. Continuous data

synchronization between the mobile device and server was required at every interval.

Research and analysis were scheduled at every project level to effectively manage the quality

and workflow processes for better and improved performance.

Development Highlights

Special focus on interactivity and user friendliness of the app while designing the Android

application.

Agile development strategies implemented using various proven tools thus ensuring quick and

effective solutions.

Optimal usage of open source technologies to reduce the total cost of android application

development.

Unit testing applied to ensure the quality of the application.

Mobile application for construction industry for work flow management.

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