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RJ Lee Group (RJLG) developed software for Personal Data Assistants (PDAs) to use in field sample collection for a large-scale environmental project related to the assessment of contaminants in dust as a result of the World Trade Center Collapse. Project protocols required systematic collection of multiple samples of various media types from each designated location throughout various building systems for laboratory analyses of nine (9) analytes of interest. Given that each sample collected required the recording of about 75 fields of data, traditional field data recording using clipboard and paper would have required at least 27 pages of paper for each sample location. The PDAs reduced the amount of field staff time by about 33% for each sample location. Staff time for data verification of daily sample shipments to the laboratory was reduced by about 50%. Since the PDA software was written to be compatible with RJLG's laboratory sample tracking system, no data entry was required upon sample receipt. The physical samples received were simply verified against the data which was uploaded from the PDAs to the tracking database via VPN. With a daily shipment of 300-400 samples, at least 40 hours per day was saved using the PDA by eliminating the need for manual data entry and verification of "hard-to-read" handwritten field data sheets. Quality control of the field data was also vastly improved.
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