(Case study) Government · Agriculture · Saudi Arabia

Weqaa

Field inspection for a national government center that protects Saudi farms from plant pests and animal diseases. An Android app for inspectors and a web portal for the teams that run them.

(Client): WEQAA Center, Saudi government
(Product): Inspector app and operations portal
(Platforms): Android, Web
(Role): Product Design Manager

(Overview)

WEQAA is a Saudi government center under the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture. Its inspectors visit farms across the Kingdom to register holdings, monitor crops and fight threats like the red palm weevil and the desert locust.

(Client): Saudi government center
(Inspector app): Android
(Operations portal): Web, desktop first
(Language): Arabic first, right to left

(03) The challenge

Government records, captured in the field.

Inspectors work in open farmland, far from an office, and every visit becomes an official government record. The goal was to turn long inspection forms into short, guided steps, and give managers one clear view of teams, visits and reports across every region.

(01)

Field inspector

On an Android phone, at the farm

See today's assigned visits and start one in a tap
Confirm the farm's location with GPS
Record findings step by step and attach photos

(02)

Supervisor and admin

On the web portal, at the branch or head office

Assign teams and follow visits by region
Open any visit report and review it
Manage roles, users, inventory and zones

(04) Two products, one platform

Mapping the field and the office.

The inspector journey runs on the phone, the supervision journey runs on the web. Both meet at the same farm, visit and report.

Inspector app

01Log in
02Today's visits
03Visit type
04Confirm location
05Basic data
06Findings
07Attachments
08Submit

Operations portal

01Dashboard
02Teams
03Visits
04Visit report
05Reports
06Inventory
07Zones
08Permissions

(05) Home

The working day at a glance.

Inspectors open the app to the current field conditions, one clear call to start a new visit, and live counts for upcoming, returned, in-progress and completed visits.

(06) Field visits

Five kinds of visit, one familiar flow.

Farm registration, preventive, monitoring, control and evaluation visits share the same structure, so inspectors learn it once. Every visit starts by confirming the farm's coordinates.

(07) Desert locust

A long report, split into five short steps.

Desert locust visits break the report into basic data, environment, locust findings, control actions and attachments, with progress always in view and a clear confirmation at the end.

(08) Progress and custody

Nothing left half done.

Visits waiting on data stay in their own list, each showing the exact step that is missing. Inspectors also track the vehicles, pesticides and devices in their custody and return them from the app.

(09) Operations portal

Running field teams from one portal.

Supervisors manage field teams and their cars and crews, follow visits across regions, and control who can access each programme, from red palm weevil to desert locust.