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At its core, HxGN Smart Census has highly configurable rules and a
powerful workflow engine. This is a key attribute of the software. This enables
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to implement census mapping workflows and
feature-level access control that is managed by a single, fully-integrated
system where all the parties, each with associated posts and roles, access the
same database(s) through a single web server. Each post is associated with
one or more roles, and each role has a specific set of tasks. Furthermore, access
to the system is through standard internet/intranet security protocols
involving a username and password.
The access control system allows a supervisor to allocate a specific unit of
work, referred to as a production unit (PU), to a particular user associated with
a specific post. The assigned user can only work on the assigned PU and can
only execute the tasks relevant to his/her role in that particular part of the
overall workflow. This eliminates duplication of efforts, since it is impossible
for two teams to work on the same PU at the same time. It is also impossible
for a user to do anything other than the tasks related to his/her role with
regards to the allocated PU at that particular step in the overall workflow.
Once the tasks for a PU are completed, the PU is submitted, and the
supervisor receives a notification. This then triggers a set of quality
control/quality assurance (QC/QA) steps, after which the work is either
accepted or rejected and sent back for correction.

Streamlined Project Management
A census-mapping project is usually a huge undertaking, with a large
workforce ranging from about 50 to more than 1000 persons, depending on
the size of the country, the methodology, and the project timeframe. Project
management is therefore a huge challenge. HxGN Smart Census enables the
GIS manager to manage the entire census mapping project using a single tool.
Since work allocation and task execution are performed on the same system,
the GIS manager knows exactly who is doing what at any particular moment
and, also, the overall status and progress of each phase of the project. And
since HxGN Smart Census has a strong spatial component, work scheduling
and progress tracking can be done using a combination of maps, tables, and
lists.
This effectively manages, if not eliminates, most of the inefficiencies
common to census mapping projects. These inefficiencies include: suboptimal
scheduling of fieldwork that requires field teams to drive unnecessary
distances between PUs, duplication of effort where the same PU is allocated
to two teams or operators, and obtaining of status reports from the field and
office and compiling of progress reports. HxGN Smart Census provides the
ability to detect a problem swiftly – long before it turns into a major crisis.

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