MNazar

General information

• MNazar is an iOS tracking app for sales employees.
• Developed by Aditya Dwivedi (ad629@cornell.edu).
• MNazar tracks the location of an employee and sends the collected data to a server. This information can be viewed by the employee's supervisor.
• MNazar uses the Google Maps SDK for iOS to display locations.
• MNazar also keeps a record of the total distance travelled by the employee.
• MNazar can be run in the background and does not need to remain open at all times.

Features and screenshots

1. Login and auto logout

• Users login using their employee id and password.
• They can log out at any given time. The server will stop receiving their location upon logout.
• The app logs the user out automatically at 7 P.M. local time i.e. at the end of their shift.
• Users cannot login after 7 P.M. or on Sundays.

2. Location tracking

• The app begins tracking location immediately after login.
• It updates location if
• An hour has passed since location was last updated.
• The employee moves by a distance greater than 100 metres.
• An employee can view his own locations listed in a table.
• Cells are ordered vertically from latest location to oldest.
• Cells display the time the location was first received and the distance travelled by the employee at that time.
• Each cell in the table contains a color coded marker indicating how long an employee stayed at that location. The colors are coded as follows
• Green: Less than 1 hour
• Yellow: 1-3 hours
• Red: More than 3 hours
• The app toggles between location accuracies to optimize battery usage.

3. Map view

• The app uses the Google Maps SDK for iOS to display user locations on an actual map.
• The marker on the map tells the user how many hours he spent at a place along with his employee code.

4. Sending data to server

• The app sends the following data to the server in the form of JSON object-
• Employee code
• Latitude of location object
• Longitude of location object
• Timestamp of location object
• Distance travelled by user
• Time spent at location
• If the device is not connected to the internet, the app stores data locally and sends it upon reconnection.

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Limitations of current version

• A server has not been setup to store locations. So the function call to send data to server has been commented out.
• Since the current version is not hooked up to an employee database, it accepts any valid string of length greater than 1 as employee code and password.