Orchard scouting and interpretation of data is increasingly import with the rise in severity of some fruit pests at a time of pesticide losses. The software described here allow growers or extension agents to collect field IPM data (such as pheromone trap captures) directly into a PDA (personal digital assistant), and share the data with an IPM specialist when the PDA is synchronized with a desktop computer. Thus, data are organized for the original client, and may be shared as part of a regional trapping program.

Pendragon Forms

Pendragon Forms consists of three components:

1. The Forms Manager is an Access 200X database application (Microsoft Access is not required to use this program) that includes a Form Designer and some simple tools for viewing, managing and exporting data. 

2. The Forms Conduit is a bridge between Forms on your desktop and Forms on you handheld device, and it runs during each HotSync data transfer. 

3. The Forms Runtime is a program on the handheld device that runs the Forms.

Please see the website of Pendragon Forms about How it works in detail.

Example: Apple trapping data Form

Fig.1 Select the form -- apple trapping data
 

Fig.2 Review the exist data by all fields in a record

Fig.3 Input new data

Groups of all sizes can synchronize Pendragon Forms across a LAN or across the Internet. With Pendragon SyncServer, any workstation with TCP/IP or Internet access can synchronize Pendragon Forms with desktop or Enterprise databases.