What is LENA Collector?
LENA Collector is a data collection and storage tool designed to streamline data collection for multi-site LENA projects.
- LENA Collector stores unprocessed DLP files at your project's distal or satellite location, allowing you to quickly return each DLP into the field - no need to transport it to the main LENA Pro site.
- When it's convenient, you'll transfer all of the unprocessed files in bulk to a LENA Flash Drive. Send the LENA Flash Drive - with up to 32 full files - to the central LENA Pro site, and continue data collection at the satellite site without interruption.
- The main LENA Pro site receives the unprocessed audio data on the LENA Flash Drive and confirms the file assignments. Processing begins automatically, just as if the data were coming directly from DLPs.
This article is an overview of the process, from remote site data collection to main site data processing.
1. Recordings are collected and stored.
1.1. Collector site receives a DLP with a recording.
1.2. Collector site assigns and transfers the recording.
- Client management, file assignment, and file transfer work much as they do in LENA Pro, but the files do not process.
- The DLP is empty and ready to be charged for next use directly from the remote site - no need to return it to the main site.
- LENA Collector holds the unprocessed files until it is convenient to transfer them all to the main LENA Pro site for processing.
2. Stored recordings are loaded on a LENA Flash Drive.
2.1. When ready, LENA Collector site loads all recordings onto a LENA Flash Drive.
- All files stored on LENA Collector will transfer together.
- The LENA Flash Drive will hold up to 32 full 16-hour files.
2.2. Collector site sends the LENA Flash Drive to the main LENA Pro site.
3. Files process at the main LENA Pro site.
3.1. LENA Pro site receives the LENA Flash Drive and imports files.
- The LENA Pro user confirms the file assignments previously made in LENA Collector.
- For any file where the assigned child existed only on the Collector machine, the LENA Pro user may add a new child record.