Magpi started out as a way to efficiently collect child vaccination data, but once it was available online people began using it for mobile data collection in all sorts of industries and activities. Magpi customers now use it for everything from energy to agriculture, and more.
Some of our favorite recent examples include:
Agricultural worker with Magpi
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
A great example here is the work of the City of Tallahassee’s disaster response team, which uses Magpi mobile data collection for rapid mobile field reporting of damage estimates (and hazards for disaster workers) after hurricanes. This is especially useful because in disasters telecommunications can be out, and Magpi’s offline data collection still gets the job done.
AGRICULTURE
We’re no experts on hydroponic agricultural operations, but the genuine experts at Vista Produce provide a great use case of using Magpi for easy-to-implement, cost-effective offline data collection in the agricultural setting for tomato growing.
MEDICAL RESEARCH
Magpi’s mobile data collection been used for decades for medical research, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Magpi made free licenses available to organizations working on related issues. Two examples of the valuable research done as a result include tracking mortality and symptoms in covid patients at King’s College Hospital in London and evaluating neurological issues among covid patients at Cayetano Heredia Hospital in Peru.
benefits of Mobile Data Collection
In some of the examples above, people needed to collect data one time — like for a medical study — while in others (like agriculture) mobile data collection is an ongoing process. But in every case, the benefits are very clear:
No time spent entering data from paper into a computer — this one’s a no-brainer! Mobile data collection saves an entire time-consuming and expensive step.
Real-time understanding — when you can see data flowing in from the field with no time lag, you can also analyze that data as it flows, and act on that analysis. This has always been true, but in the new version of Magpi coming out later this year we’re including automated analysis tools to make sure our users can stay on top of their processes, without extra effort.
Cost savings — when we’ve seen analyses of the cost of paper-based data collection, we are always amazed at the enormous cost of paper, photocopying and printing, and even transport of stacks and stacks of paper forms. Using that phone in your pocket makes all of that just a part of history, not a part of your current expenses.
Better data security — with Magpi mobile data collection, your data can be protected by encryption end-to-end, from start to finish. That means on the phone or tablet during entry, during upload, and on the Magpi web system. And the new version of Magpi includes even better tools to create automated backups, and keep your data secure.
Who else needs mobile data collection?
One way to think about it is this: do you ever still see people filling out information on paper forms? We still see this very commonly in situations as varied as doctors’ and dentists’ offices, political polling on the street, and factory floors.
In every single one of those situations, the person filling in the form could be doing it on the mobile phone in their pocket, or the tablet in their bag — saving time, effort, and money. In every single one, the business represented by that person could get that data faster, understand it better, respond more promptly, and use it more effectively if they switched to cost-effective, tried-and-tested mobile data collection tools like Magpi.
And the team at Magpi looks forward to helping them get there.
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