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GX Pocket PC System Gathers Fire Insurance Data

This application gathers the necessary information to establish the amount of fire insurance that the Salta Association of Tobacco Producers provides its members.

Problem: compiling information on the condition of almost 7,000 heaters used for curing and drying tobacco leaves in the production of Virginia Tobacco, in order to calculate the amount of fire insurance.

Solution: the Pocket PC System developed with GeneXus 8.0 that integrates GIS (Geographical Information System) technology.

The Salta Association of Tobacco Producers offers its members a fire insurance premium whose amount, until now, was calculated on the number of hectares of tobacco that were produced. But a new method for calculating the insurance premium made it necessary to compile information on the condition of the heaters where the tobacco is cured and dried.

In the tobacco industry, drying and curing the tobacco leaves is part of the elaboration process denominated "Virginia Tobacco or fire cured." This process consists of placing the harvested leaves in specially designed heaters. These are built using different technologies, and are adopted depending on the producers'investment capacity, and the fuel availability in their area.
To determine whether or not a heater is insurable, and decide on the premium, it is necessary that a team of inspectors carefully evaluate its condition.

To compile the information of all 6,900 heaters distributed in approximately 600 tobacco farms, Syndeo ?GeneXus sub-distributor in Salta, Jujuy and Tucuman- developed a system that uses the GeneXus 8.0 Pocket PC generator and integrates GIS technology.

The GeneXus Pocket PC application compiles the different data required (producer registers, farm registers, types of materials in the heaters, their condition, capacity, etc.); this information is consolidated in a central system placing each heater in a GIS.

"To gather the information, besides the Pocket PC, the inspectors take with them a GPS (Global Positioning System) which allows them to identify the exact location of the heater and assign it a unique code that links the GIS data with the data of the inspected heater," explained Alfredo Gabin, partner at Syndeo.

"This application contains the data of the producers register (approximately 2,000), of the farms (approx. 600), and the different types of heaters with their characteristics tabulated. The loading speed of this data volume was optimized during the system development, and the possibility to print a receipt on site for the owner to sign was included," informed Gabin.

Syndeo presented the characteristics of this development during the GeneXus 8.0 presentation held in Salta at the end of August.

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