Survey Toolkit

Energy access organizations do a lot of surveying: of potential customers, sites, and marketplaces. Finding the best platform to manage this data can be hard. Devergy's solution, the Survey Toolkit, provides a simple approach to collecting, analyzing, and presenting field survey data.

The toolkit combines three off-the-shelf applications — EpiCollect5, GoogleSheets, and Google My Maps — and works like this:

  1. Users use EpiCollect5 to create a custom survey form or data entry template;

  2. Users use the EpiCollect5 mobile app to collect geo-tagged survey data, with options for collecting data in text, photo, video, or audio formats;

  3. Users enter a script into Google Sheets to allow data to be sent fromEpiCollect5 to Google Sheets, where it can be cleaned and analyzed;

  4. Users use the data in Google Sheets to create a custom Map (i.e. on Google My Maps) which presents insights in a visual format.

We like this toolkit because it’s free, highly configurable, and easy to use.

We love that it’s been field-proven for a year or more, and we’d recommend this asa great option for teams that are just getting started with surveying, or otherwise finding issues with their existing surveying platform.

Learn more at

https://enaccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Survey_Toolkit_Instruction_Devergy.pdf Source Code https://github.com/EnAccess/Survey-Toolkit?tab=readme-ov-file

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