Your Essential Companion for Laboratory and Field Research
APV Lab&Field is powerful cloud-based data sample management system. It streamlines and facilitates the collection, organisation, and interrogation of various types of data to support monitoring, scientific research, and wildlife management and conservation. Originally designed to support biological research, it can be used in many other scientific disciplines.
Designed with Research Subjects in Mind
APV Lab&Field is designed around managing data collected about individual subjects with similar characteristics, such as individual animals or plants. Users record different types of data against those individuals, and the nature and type of these data (numeric, GPS, textual, etc.) is fully configurable and can be modified at any time. APV Lab&Field also makes it possible to record relationships between two individuals or between an individual and another stationary object which can represent animal dwelling, feeding station, observation point or similar.
Your Data at Your Fingertips Wherever You Are
APV Lab&Field is a cloud solution that makes your data available to you from any place with the internet connection. Users can access recorded data running the web application in an internet browser. Whether a quick and simple data dump is required, or complex query needs to be built, APV Lab&Field provides clean and easy to use web interface to search and extract data, catering for different levels of the user expertise. Configuration and data entry process is simple and intuitive, on-line help is always available, and our support team is ready to answer any queries.
Offline capabilities
APV Lab&Field Mobile is an application for IOS and Android mobile devices which can be downloaded from Apple App Store and Google Play. It enables data capture in areas with limited or no internet connectivity. Data collected is stored locally on the device and can be uploaded to the main database once a connection is reestablished. Users can modify or delete recorded data on the device before it is uploaded. However, the mobile app is not a replacement for the main web application; it is intended solely for data entry. It cannot be used to modify data that has already been recorded in the main system.
Move Away from Spreadsheets and Embrace the Power of Database Management Systems
Databases provide many advantages over the use of spreadsheets, such as data normalisation, data integrity, and search capabilities. However, databases might not be intuitive for all users and require a certain degree of expertise. With a powerful database engine under the hood, APV Lab&Field allows you to harness the power of the database without the need to learn how to design and manage the database or use a query language.
Protocols
To make data collection easier and more streamlined, APV Lab&Field provides capabilities to design protocols. Protocols represent different types of data being collected about the subject at the same time (e.g., several characteristics measured during a sampling event). Protocols are guiding users through the data collection event making sure that all necessary data is captured, and any optional characteristics are readily available for input.
Managing Multiple Identifiers
Each individual subject can have multiple forms of identifiers, such as field identifiers, transponder IDs, lab IDs, etc. APV Lab&Field makes it easy to manage, assign, and query individuals based on any form of recorded identification. With the help of APV Lab&Field Tag Library application, users can restrict selection of tags to pre-defined sets as well as tracks used and available tags of different types.
Coloured Tags Support
For the researchers who want to have more granular control over the coloured tags they use, APV Lab&Field has "out of the box" colour tag support. The colour tags support is optional and can be switched off if not needed.
Data Visualization
APV Lab&Field has a simple but capable engine to visualise data stored in the system. It can draw several types of charts from simple pie and bar charts to maps and relational trees.
Integration with Mapping Engines
To visualize location data, system has integration with three different mapping agents. The default is powered by OpenStreetMap map tiles. If customer has API Keys for Google Maps or ArcGIS Online and prefers to use those services, simple configuration switch makes it available.
Role based access
Users can be assigned different levels of data access, such as data entry and editing, system configuration, or simple viewing access. System administrators have acces to the entire system, and also have power to delete objects and to restore deleted objects.
Usage statistics at your fingertips
System administrators have access to the “Statistics Dashboard”. A graphical representation of the current system status. From there they can audit system’s access and usage.
Custom Forms
APV Lab&Field provides ability to design user specific printable forms to represent individual subjects and protocol data. Knowledge of HTML language is required to design forms. Sample templates are provided with the initial installation.