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Fig. 2

From: Developing a community-led SMS reporting tool for the rapid assessment of lymphatic filariasis morbidity burden: case studies from Malawi and Ghana

Fig. 2

Sequence diagram MeasureSMS tool. The health worker sends their SMS record in the prescribed format to a local Android Smartphone on which the MeasureSMS app is installed. The app validates the SMS i.e. checks for formatting errors and sends a response SMS to the health worker indicating whether or not the SMS was correctly formatted. On connecting to the internet either via WiFi or the local 3G network, the smartphone sends the SMS message data to a UK-based cloud server on which it is then stored. The study team, including the members of the LF Programme can then access this stored data via a password protected web browser

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