iPhone Geotagging App

Purpose and Objective

• Create a phone application that will allow field technicians to accurately record wind turbine configuration information; by taking a photo that captures this information which is then processed and stored in a database.
• Increase productivity and reduce costs of field technicians.

Software

• OCR – Tesseract (C++ Based)
• Image Processing – OpenCV (C++ Based)
• Front End App – Phone Gap (HTML & Java Script Based)
• Back End App – Django (Python Based)
• Database – SQLite 3 (SQL Based)

Accomplishments

• Image Enhancement can increase OCR accuracy
• OCR reliably information from image
• Smartphone App transfers photo and geolocation data, allow for manual correction, and auto-caches photo data in local database
• Server seamlessly integrates subsystems, handles client requests, executes OCR, and interfaces with database
• Stores work orders and turbine configuration data in database satisfying 3rd normal form
• Performed Cost Benefit Analysis of project