Project Overview
FoogleTech developed the Electronic Work Diary (EWD) mobile application — a driver-centric compliance tool enabling commercial vehicle operators to log work and rest periods accurately, track mandatory rest requirements, and maintain a 15-day rolling compliance history. The app enforces the 5 hours 15 minutes continuous work limit with automatic rest period prompts and includes timezone adjustment for multi-region drivers.
The Engineering Challenge
- Commercial vehicle drivers must maintain accurate work and rest records, but paper-based diaries are prone to error and falsification — a mobile EWD needed to make compliance effortless without adding meaningful burden.
- The 5-hour-15-minute continuous work limit requires precise time tracking from the moment work begins — any inaccuracy creates compliance gaps exposing drivers and fleet operators to regulatory penalties.
- Displaying 15 days of work/rest history introduced performance challenges — loading dense time-series data for two weeks of shifts without significant delays required careful data architecture.
- Multi-region drivers operating across timezones needed adjustment functionality that correctly recalculates historical entries without creating audit discrepancies.
Our Solution
- FoogleTech designed the work log interface for single-tap start/stop operation — minimising steps required to log work period changes so compliance recording adds no meaningful friction.
- Mandatory rest enforcement was implemented with continuous background time tracking — at the 5h15m mark, the app triggers a mandatory rest notification and enforces a minimum rest period before the next work log start.
- The compliance history page was optimised using virtualised list rendering and paginated data loading — presenting 15 days of shift data without perceptible loading delays.
- Timezone adjustment was implemented as a session-level setting applying offset correction across all displayed log times without modifying underlying UTC timestamps — maintaining audit integrity.
Results & Outcomes
- Electronic work diary replacing paper logs — work period start/stop logging accurate to the second with single-tap operation.
- Mandatory rest enforcement operational with automatic 5h15m breach notification and rest period lockout — protecting drivers from inadvertent compliance violations.
- 15-day rolling compliance history available on device at all times — enabling roadside checks and fleet audits without requiring backend connectivity.
- Timezone adjustment functioning correctly across multi-region operations without audit integrity impact.
Why EWD — Electronic Work Diary App Chose FoogleTech Software
FoogleTech Software is a specialist engineering company with over a decade of expertise in AI, embedded systems, IoT, and full-stack software development — serving product teams and enterprises across Automotive & Transportation and beyond. Our engineers don't just write code — they understand the domain, the constraints, and the real-world pressures that ship deadlines create. For EWD — Electronic Work Diary App, that meant deploying a pre-vetted team with direct experience in Mobile App, Driver Compliance, Work Diary, reducing ramp-up time from months to days and delivering production-quality work from the first sprint.
Every FoogleTech engagement starts with a structured discovery phase, follows a disciplined agile delivery model with daily engineering syncs, and ends with complete documentation handover — so your in-house team owns the outcome. No black boxes, no lock-in.