By GAD Group
BONNEVILLE PROJECT: DIGITAL PEN AND
DATABASE PROJECT OVERVIEW
Digital Pen
“MAGIC” PEN
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Capturx Digital Pen, based on Anoto Technology
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Capturx converts handwritten forms, field journal notes, sketches, and annotations on maps and
satellite images into digital data.
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The digital pen looks and feels like a regular ballpoint pen—but contains an integrated digital sensor, an
advanced image microprocessor, and a mobile communications device for wireless connection.
As you write, the digital pen scans your writing in conjunction with a digital watermark which is printed by
Capturx software along with the visual information in your form or map.
The digital pen records what is written or drawn, and all this data is then stored in the pen’s memory
until you upload it into a Microsoft Windows®-based computer.
The Capturx pen can also be used with Fisher pressurized ink pen cartridges, filled with Rite in the
Rain® proprietary ink, enabling you to write in any position and in any condition.
Stays charged for up to 10 days of typical use with built in Lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
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While a digital pen is easy to use and durable for use in a range of environments, it is actually a sophisticated
computing device that converts any handwritten paper-based information into electronic data that can be
modified, manipulated, or shared in leading applications you already use.
Charging time approx. 2.5 hours (150 min), from 0% to 100% via cradle and USB adapter.
Weight 1.06 oz.
Data Communication: USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 standard Bluetooth depends on the application
For use: 32 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit at relative humidity levels of 10-85%
For storage: -4 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit at relative humidity
Pen can be used in inclement weather and rain, but is not submersible.
“MAGIC” PEN-DOT PATTERN
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A digital pen looks, feels and writes like a normal ballpoint pen. However, it
contains an integrated digital camera, an advanced image microprocessor
and a mobile communications device for wireless connection.
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Using a digital pen on a surface covered with the Anoto dot pattern, you can
capture, store and then securely send the handwriting, enabling you to easily
convert ink to digital data – right away.
Almost invisible to the naked eye, the Anoto dot pattern consists of
numerous small black dots that can be read by a digital pen.
Every small area of the pattern has a unique combination of dots with
different positions. The pattern indicates the exact position of the digital pen
as it moves across the surface.
Virtually any surface can be converted into a "digital surface" by covering it
with the Anoto dot pattern.
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This is why you have to use the forms that are created for the pen. It is so the
pen can recognize what it is writing on and it then can digitize the handwriting.
“MAGIC” PEN-DOT PATTERN
Digital paper becomes on-site reference
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Anoto Digital Pen technology allows information to be
simultaneously recorded in both written and electronic form.
For example, once a paper has fulfilled its role in digitizing
handwritten text, it becomes a conventional paper copy, but
the difference is that it can be then be archived for future
reference.
Using Anoto Digital Pen technology also eliminates the
possibility of losing important written information in the time
lag between writing on site and manually inputting the data
back in the office.
WHERE THE “MAGIC” PEN DATA GOES…
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Once proof read it is uploaded to the
Sharepoint
server.
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 Our database then downloads the data from
the Sharepoint server to our SQL/Access
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database at the office.
 Data collected in the field is currently written
on Rite-in-the-Rain paper and then brought
back to the office for archiving.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE “MAGIC PEN”
Once the forms are uploaded to the Capturx website you can proof read the
forms from there. To proof the loaded forms: click on the form you want to
proof read.
These are the forms you can
choose from to proof.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE “MAGIC PEN”
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A copy of the uploaded form will appear.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE “MAGIC PEN”
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To view what was written in the cell you can do one of two things:
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You can put the mouse curser over the cell and it will pop up with the actual handwritten value.
You can change the data in the cell by clicking in the cell.
Holding the mouse cursor over the cell will show what the pen wrote.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE “MAGIC PEN”
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Once you are finished correcting the form hit the “Approve Form” button at the bottom of
the page. Only then until you upload that page it will go into our database back at the
office.
The “Save Form” button does just what it says, it saves the form and the corrections that
you have made so far but does not upload the form to the database.
This button will save the corrected form, but will not upload the form..
This button will upload the corrected form to the database.
WHAT IS MINI MON?
Overview of the MiniMon Application
 MiniMon provides unattended, around the clock
monitoring for fish marked with an ISO PIT Tag.
 MiniMon can collect data from 16 or more ISO
transceivers simultaneously.
 The collected data is transformed into interrogation files
which are partitioned by a specified time interval.
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An interrogation file is the file that is uploaded that contains
all the pit tags for the designated time window.
MiniMon provides visual diagnostic information about
the current interrogation process in addition to robust
logging features.
MINI MON
For our purposes we use Mini Mon to take all
the pit tags we use in the day and remotely
upload them to our Access/SQL database back
here at the office.
 This why it is important to have Mini Mon
running before we start tagging for the day.
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MINI MON AND PIT TAGS
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Once the PIT tags are uploaded to the
SQl/Access database we then match the PIT
tag 5 digit code with the PIT tags that Min Mon
had uploaded.
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full PIT tag codes are uploaded automatically at
5 p.m. daily.