SPOTTERON Packages

SPOTTERON is based on a fixed price model, providing the complete service inclusive design and development of the apps, data management and constant updates. By this model, we can guarantee the continuous maintenance and development of your smartphone apps and tools completely without in-app advertising nor user data monetarization.

 

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SPOTTERON is available in 3 package sizes for your project:

SPOTTERON Citizen Science PackA

Package L

 

Interactive browser map

Lightweight package! For web-based projects, we provide the full feature interactive map for the browser, which can also be embedded in any project website, including support and updates.

€ 7.900,-
USD 8400,- | AUD 12500,- | GBP 6900,-
including 2 years of free regular support, domain, hosting & app updates
Regular Support € 90,- per month
USD 99,- | AUD 145,- | GBP 80,-
Extended Support (all App features runtime included) € 125,- per month
USD 155,- | AUD 195,- | GBP 110,-
SPOTTERON Citizen Science PackA

Package A

 

Smartphone apps and interactive map

We build your custom smartphone apps for Android & IOS and your interactive map for browsers, which can be integrated into any website, complete setup, support and updates.

€ 18.900,-
USD 20550,- | AUD 30550,- | GBP 16500,-
including 2 years of free regular support, domain, hosting & app updates
After 2 years:
Regular Support € 180,- per month
USD 195,- | AUD 290,- | GBP 155,-
Extended Support (all App features runtime included) € 390,- per month
USD 475,- | AUD 640,- | GBP 350,-
SPOTTERON Citizen Science PackB

Package B

 

Apps, interactive map and custom homepage

Besides the custom smartphone apps for Android & IOS and the interactive map with support & updates, we also design & develop your own professional project website including hosting.

€ 23.450,-
USD 26500,- | AUD 38500,- | GBP 19900,-
including 2 years of regular free support, domain, hosting & app updates
After 2 years:
Regular Support € 215,- per month
USD 245,- | AUD 350,- | GBP 185,-
Extended Support (all App features runtime included) € 590,- per month
USD 715,- | AUD 950,- | GBP 530,
All packages include design, development, data management, hosting + map server traffic (fair use in one actively promoted country), and regular SPOTTERON platform updates;
All prices exclusive VAT; date: December 2024; Extended Support for more complex projects and projects with a high level of usage; Extended support also includes all advanced Platform features without extra runtime costs.
 

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What's all included?

Citizen Science App Design and Development

DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

All packages include the design and development of the apps for Android & IOS, the interactive map (web-app) for browsers. We create custom designs for your apps like buttons, the app icons, project logo and other media elements.

Project Support & App Updates

UPDATES & SUPPORT

During the whole runtime of your project, we provide full support and regular updates for optimal stability, security and compatibility in the fast-changing world of mobile technology while also introducing new platform features.

Citizen Science App Store Setup for Android & IOS

APP STORE SETUP

We take care of setting up the presence of your project's apps on the app stores for Android & IOS with your project descriptions, image teasers and phone mockups for a high-quality first impression for new users..

Observation Data Management & Export

DATA MANAGEMENT

All projects on the platform have full access to the secure administration area for data and community management. The admin area also provides data filters and an export tool of all contributions in the project's app in realtime.

Feature-Pack: App Offline Mode

OFFLINE MODE

Outdoor apps are often in use where web connectivity is low. All apps on the platform include an offline mode with map area downloads, spot saving and a waiting queue for new observations, saved locally without an internet connection..

Feature-Pack: Community & Communication Tools

COMMUNITY PACK

Every app on the platform includes a full feature social community toolkit with many advanced functionalities like a user's newsfeed, comments, liking, following and even push messaging for getting in contact with the participants directly.

Feature-Pack: Data Quality Tools

DATA QUALITY PACK

To foster data quality in your project, various tools are built into all apps on the platform for giving feedback, highlight well-done observations for training and promote experienced users to help with classifications of all contributions.

Feature-Pack: User Motivation Tools

USER MOTIVATION PACK

Increasing the long-term motivation of the participants is an essential key element in running volunteer-based projects. All apps include tools for automatically rewarding users for their data submissions and community activity.

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Optional Add-Ons and project-specific Features for your Citizen Science & Public Engagement Apps

In addition to the basic SPOTTERON package, customizeable extra features and content options are available to extend the functionalities of your App Toolkit and to utilize project-specific tools for special requirements in extend to the wide spectrum of automatically integrated platform features.

 

Info-Panels for in-App Information and Glossary Pages

In the SPOTTERON Info-Panels feature, additional information and pictures can be displayed on-click in lists and input fields directly in the data submission dialogue. The project-specific implementation is based on SPOTTERON Package B and the project team can self-edit content of infopanels via the project website's administration interface.

Project-specific Intro-Slides on App start-up

When opening up an App the first time, a number of Intro Slides are welcoming new users and give tips about how to use the app. As a graphic design task, we can create your project-specific customized Intro Slides in all included languages of your App and integrate them in the Apps for Android and IOS.

Additional translations & languages for Apps

Extending to the two languages already included in each basic package, we can implement an unlimited number of translations in your project's Apps. During the App development process, we provide project-specific translation files for your project with all yet untranslated strings included and implement the languages for the release.

Regional or Country-based Access to Data & Communication Tools

If your project's scale integrates more partner organisations on regional or national level, the SPOTTERON Project Internationalization Toolkit enables regional or country-based data access, community administration and the use of the integrated communication tools. This allows project partners to independently manage and download data and to communicate in the own native language with the local user community.

Media: Audio Feature for the live recording and playback of audio in Apps

The project-specific integration of Audio Recording feature enables to attach audio as recording or audio file directly in a user data submission and features a playback component for the detail views of data submissions in the Apps (Android, IOS, Web-App). Audio data is included in the administrator data downlods and in the project-specific API Add-On.

Media: Multiple Images Upload per Data Submission

For project with extended need of photo or image submissions and media data volumes, the Multiple Images feature is enabling participants to add a multitude of images one data submission at once in an easy-to-use interface. The feature includes an extended data upload system for data streaming and background upload of contributions to provide a high level user experience and technical quality. The Mutlitple Images feature comes with an image gallery, integrated in the detail view of each user submission in the Apps.

 

User Roles with specific options per role in data submission dialog

Project User Roles can be utilized in a project to identify different target groups and to display data input options specific to a participant's user role in the App. The project-specific setup of User roles can be used to reflect various levels of knowledge, experience, or different areas of interest for each user, and provide data submission categories specialized for each user role. User role identifiers are inclued in the export and the API for each data point.

Data Scoring and Custom Data Visualizations

When participants enter options in the data submission process, the Data Scoring enables the calculation of a score based on a customizeable formula for the data point. This can include positive/negative weightend values for inputs as well as median, avarage, and other mathematical operations, and is used in projects to calcualte a quality score of an observation of or a location. The results can be integrated in a project-spcific data visualization as an interactive  map overlay. 

Live Route Recording

The add-on enables live route recording via the device's GPS/Location service in a project's App Toolkit. Participants can ongoingly contribute data as spots while recording a live route, and the Apps can also display pre- and post-surveys before and after the route recording to gather data about a user's experience. Route data is available for the project teams in the widely interoperable GEOJson format as download.

Satellite Map Overlay

Displaying a Satellite Map Overlay can help participants to submit data on the right location, espcially on more off-areas in which regular maps do not display many details. In other projects, the Satellite Feature Add-On is used in combination with Spatial Data Input, having users of the App Toolkit draw areas, lines, and polygon shapes on the map during the data input. The add-on consists of the usage costs for satellite provided by an European map provider for improved data protection and data ethics.

Project-specific Data fields on User Profiles with Consent & GDPR Compliance

Background information on users can sometimes be very important for a research project. The add-on allows projects to include a range of project-specific questions on each user profile, which users can answer and give their consent for sharing the data with the project's team.  

Co-Creation Package

Additional co-creation cycles can implement user feedback for input options in the data input dialogue of the apps of the project in an open process. A first prototype version of the app toolkit can be presented to user groups, feedback gathered, changes identified and new app versions are produced to include the co-creation outcomes.

 

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