The objectives of the project are to:

• Create and manage a geospatial database for all 8 high risk states in Northern Nigeria to support enhancements to the micro-planning process.
• Support enhancements to Immunization Plus Days (IPD) processes by recording the vaccination team positions (the “tracks”) at regular interval.
• Import tracks from the phones and calculate coverage analytics based on the intersects of the positions and the underlying geographic reference data for the settlements
• Provide automated web based dashboard and maps at local and national level for use at the Nigeria EOCs in Abuja and Kano as well as remotely by external partners

The Vaccination Tracking Systems (VTS) is made of 3 main components:

Tracking Phone:

The VTS Tracker is an Android application deployed on more than 5000 phones carried by Vaccinator teams during vaccination campaign. This application records the GPS tracks in a SQLite database.

Laptops:

The Laptop application is a Windows application developed with Microsoft WPF 4.0 and an MS SQL 2008 R2 database. Mapping functionality has been implemented with ArcGIS 10.1 Runtime for WPF.

The application is deployed on 30 laptops on the fields. It sends tracks to the EOC using GSM data network.

EOC application:

The EOC application is an ASP.Net 4.0 application using ESRI Javascript API and ArcGIS  Server 10.1 to produce maps.

Novel-T has implemented the 3 components. The project started in January 2010 and as of June 2013 has required more than 20 man/months of development. Novel-T developed numerous ArcMap 10.1 toolboxes and designed the Geo data management processes to field collect and maintain all settlements geographical information into a central “Gold” database.