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Farming

Another typical field of application of GeoWork is farming. Indeed, GeoWork is the perfect collaboration tool when a given team is spread over a large area. All it needs is a commercial Geowork license and Geowork available on mobile devices of all employees. Here are given few examples of typical situations were GeoWork offers a significant help.

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The following examples are hypothetical situations, and are not listed for exact following of instructions, but rather to give an idea of how GeoWork can be used in your company.

Example 1​

  1. A worker who went to feed the cows notices an issue with the fence. He takes his phone, take a photo from within GeoWork which creates automatically a marker at the worker position with the photo inside.

  2. In the office computer, the supervisor looks at the photo and decide who has the best competence for solving the problem. He assigns this person to the marker and add a comment explaining the situation.

  3. The concerned person looks at the photo and comment to know what exactly the problem is, and takes the right tools to fix it.

  4. He reaches the location of the damaged fence easily thanks to its GPS position appearing on the GeoWork map and thanks to the integrated compass.

  5. Once repaired, he changes the marker state and adds photos and comments to document which actions were executed. In case of unexpected problems on site, he can all the same add photos, comments and change the marker state to notify the issue is still unsolved.

  6. In the office, the supervisor controls the work was done correctly and archives the marker.

Example 2​

  1. When walking through plantations, a worker notices something is wrong with a plant, but is not competent to take care of this plant. He takes a photo from within GeoWork which creates automatically a marker at its position with the photo inside, and adds a comment about what seems wrong.

  2. The supervisor in the office can now assign the marker to someone who cares about these type of plants.

  3. The person to which the marker was assigned can either go there, or tell if the problem is fatal just by looking at the photos.

  4. The health of the plant can then be monitored by taking regularly photos of it to see any progress.

  5. If at the end of the year, the farm notices this exact plant did not do well or had issues, they can then go to the marker and go back in history log, and see that this plant was ill 5 months ago, but was supposedly treated. They can now decide whether to even keep plants with these issues at all, or if the treatment was not right and try a different one in the future, or many other options.