The field trials, mainly due to difficulties with gathering participants, could not
conclusively evaluate EDCA and the system's applicability for emergency field data
collection. Still, they proved that it was possible to make use of EDCA and the system
for an emergency field data collection task and they generated useful suggestions and
insights on how to improve EDCA.
Considering that a mobile application was successfully developed, that it was possible
to use it for its intended purpose and that EDCA and each component of the
implementation is released under an open-source license, the main aim of the project
was reached, with a reservation. The latter being that the base map provider, including
the API used in EDCA to access it, is an exception that is not released as open-source,
but that was selected as a compromise because of the usefulness of its map content and
the less time-consuming development.
Separating the secondary aim into the evaluation of EDCA's applicability and the
generation of improvement suggestions, the author concludes that the second part was
reached using the field trials held. The first part failed, to a degree, since no definite
conclusions about its applicability could be drawn. Regardless, the results indicated
reason for optimism about the applicability of EDCA for emergency field data
collection.