AN XML-BASED MOBILE APPLICATION FOR DISTRIBUTION NETWORK MAINTENANCE INSPECTION

Compared to traditional maintenance inspection with paper sheets, electronic maintenance data collection can improve maintenance data management. At present maintenance inspections are outsourced in many companies, and hence the mobile solution should support outsourcing, too. One challenge is how to manage the data exchange between mobile applications and other information systems in distribution utilities. This paper describes a demonstration of a mobile inspection application that connects to a network information system database by using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) transfer files.

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