CZU students launch a new mobile app that helps to protect wild animals during haymaking

The competition for new apps for mobile platforms was sponsored by CZU and the Ministry of Environment with an endowment of 100 000 CZK. The apps for smart phones and tablets are a complement to the existing web platform www.senosec.czu.cz and have been successfully tested in situ. The Minister of Environment, Mr Richard Brabec, and Assoc. Prof. Petr Heřmánek, PhD, CZU Vice Rector, presented the apps to the public at the CZU Farm in Lány on 2 June 2016.

The new apps were developed by students from the Faculty of Economics and Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, and the Faculty of Engineering. The mobile application senosec designed for Android was created by Pavel Junek, the mobile application for Windows Phone was created by Ladislav Böhm and Jakub Podroužek.

“The mobile applications for Android and for Microsoft Phone, similarly to the web platform, are used by volunteers, agriculturists and foresters. A volunteer informs online about dead or injured animals and the agriculturist informs the foresters about the time of haymaking. The forester then organises volunteers for protecting the impacted areas”, explained Dr. Jan Bartoška, from the Faculty of Economics and Management, who, together with Dr. Roman Kvasnička, supervised the development of the apps. In two years there were more than 23 000 visitors, 3 000 registered users, with 102 agricultural enterprises a 186 forestry associations. Thanks to this modern application 206 adult or young animals were saved from injury or death thanks to this new application.

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