DaliReporter
Background
On September 27, 2009, LodgON announces its latest product: DaliReporter.
The product was created after the successful presentation of “Project Social CVIS” at the 2009 ITS Worldcongress in Stockholm, where LodgON received the Silver award for the application.
DaliReporter leverages the rich community features from DaliCommunity to collect, enhance and distribute information about the road condition or the local community. Originally the application was intended for in-vehicle use as submission for the EU CVIS Application Innovation Contest, but mobile use cases were too obvious to ignore.
DaliReporter features rich internet and mobile clients based on OSGiTM and HTML, JavaScript and JavaFX™ technology.
Experience DaliReporter: http://cvis.dalireporter.com
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The concept is simple: provide a platform that allows governments or road authorities to enhance road safety by enabling a community to report issues, enhance and validate its quality and be informed about those reported problems and their planned resolution.
The platform is intended for the following stakeholders:
- Local Governments
- Road Authorities
- Vehicle manufacturers
- Special Interest groups (e.g. automobile associations)
Multi-tiered application
The DaliReporter application is a true end-to-end application. The back-end is hosted on LodgONs servers, the client can be any CVIS compliant device (OSGi™) or mobile device. Remote Management of the software and its configuration are executed by the HMC and where available, CALM managed short-range communication can complement the cellular channels (GPRS, 3G).
Multi-Channel
DaliReporter was designed as a multi-channel application: one back-end serving a variety of client devices:
Web: Self-service, role adjusted web portal, multiple parallel communities supported. Recent activities and categorized submissions.
Vehicle: Remotely managed FOAM based CVIS application (OSGi service), Cellular and CALM communication.
PDA: OSGi application (service bundles).
Mobile phone: Mobile web with JPEG GPS tag recognition, cross-platform JavaFX™ Mobile Client (RIA).
On all channels LodgON has provided a rich user interface with the most appropriate technology for the type of device.
Vehicle Mobile_Web
Rich content dynamic web page and also a full Web JavaFX client
Controlled, community driven workflow
Community with Workflow
The platform features a strictly controlled work-flow engine, in its current state focusing on the road-infrastructure use cases where 6 roles have been identified:
- Visitors
- Drivers, Moderators
- Reviewer
- Community & System Administrators
Users can join multiple distinct communities without having to re-enter their profile-information.
Extensibility
What differentiates the platform from a traditional content community is the ability to extend the system at any time with new categories and hazardous or annoying conditions. Both text and icons are supported, future versions will also feature voice tags (on selected hardware).
Quality
As the community actively collects and comments on reported issues, contributors will see their ranking increase. Drivers can vote on the reported issues from their vehicle or later – when behind their PC - from the portal.
JavaFX mobile client
Reputation management is one of the key features to identify high-quality reports and in future versions it will allow the stakeholders to reward drivers and members for their involvement. Since the community is, or can be open, moderators and administrators can monitor the quality and intervene, in case of abuse.
In order to follow the issue throughout its life-cycle, an strictly controlled and transparent state-model has been implemented. At any moment users can be informed about the status of their reported issues.
Flexibility
We envision that other communities might have slightly different workflow processes in place: therefore LodgON can offer a custom workflow implementation as consulting service. We are also open to work, with design agencies to give the portal a branded look-and-feel.
DaliReporter is ready to integrate with existing portals, workflow systems and document management systems (such as alfresco) through its REST-API’s.
DaliReporter will also become available as a module for DaliCommunity. This will allowing our customers to leverage the flexibility of a location enabled community with the reporting workflow and interfaces of DaliReporter.