In a previous post Terraine workers shared their experiences with the Yuma. Read the first part if you haven't already and pick up here where it left off:

But even more importantly, our scientists interacted with them well in the field. 

The software application we built for this is called EnvironPro.  It inventories wells, stores water levels, water sampling events, purgings and other readings that our scientists used to collect on paper.

The neat thing about EnvironPro and any application build using Adesso is that you can use it completely offline.  The database resides on the computer being used in the field and doesn't have to be connected to the internet to record data.  This means you can sample all day along, way way out in the middle of nowhere, then synchronize your data with a central server when you have connectivity.

You can even update the application on the fly and when you synchronize, those changes are reflected on all the remote devices.

Once we head out, the scientists and technicians have to find the wells they are going to sample and verify them in the database, set them up for sampling and then record their readings.  They go through this over and over again during the course of the day. 

 Once this is done, they do what is called purging.  That's the process to get the right kind of sample and record information like pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity and other scientist terms that I do not really understand, being more technology and marketing oriented.

It's bright and hot out there too.  This is Florida after all.  But unlike a few of the other devices we have used and tested in the past, the Yuma has an easy to read, polarized screen that makes it simple to see everything, even in directly sunlight.

On the first day on site, we found that we needed to record the date and time that we were taking these water levels.  I added those fields to EnvironPro with my laptop and then synchronized with the central server.  The scientists synced their Yumas and now were collecting data and time information. 

And bright, hot and sunny is also mixed with the occasional, comes-out-of-nowhere monsoon.  But the Yuma devices are water resistant so all we had to do was wipe the rain off and keep working.

After three days on site, we wrapped up our field work and got ready to demobilize (head home).  Every one of the field crew let me know how happy they were with the Yuma and EnvironPro and that this had been the most successful sampling event yet.

 Never saw the alligator.