The census does not wait for a signal
SmartLARMS is resettlement data collection built for the places resettlement actually happens — corridors, valleys and villages where there is no network, no mains power and no second visit. Every measurement, photograph and coordinate is written to the device the moment it is taken.
Accounts are issued by your project administrator — there is no self-registration.
What it captures
- PAP census
- Register project affected persons with household composition, identification, vulnerability flags and socio-economic detail. Nested interests — spouses, children, tenants, licensees — are linked to the household rather than duplicated as separate records.
- Land parcels
- Record parcel area and tenure — mailo, freehold, leasehold, customary or public land — with the applicable rate resolved from the project's own schedule for that location.
- Structures
- Capture buildings floor by floor, or temporary and semi-permanent structures on a short rate-prefilled form. Non-buildings such as fences, graves and water tanks take a measurement and a rate, with no component survey.
- Crops and trees
- Count and value crops and timber against the project rate schedule, including perennials and standing trees valued separately from the land they sit on.
- Grievances
- Log a grievance against a PAP at the point it is raised, in the field, rather than reconstructing it from a notebook days later.
- Evidence
- Attach photographs and GPS coordinates to any record, so each entry carries the proof it was collected where and when it claims.
Genuinely offline, not offline-tolerant
Most field software degrades without a connection. This one is built the other way round: the collection flow makes no network calls at all. Nothing spins, nothing times out, and no form is lost because a request failed half way through saving it.
The full Uganda administrative gazetteer — roughly 590,000 district, sub-county, parish and village entries — ships inside the app, so location cascades resolve instantly from the device rather than from an endpoint that is unreachable in exactly the places you need it.
Sync is an action, not a background process
Data uploads when a collector chooses to upload it, on a connection they can see. That is a deliberate design choice: background sync on an intermittent link is how field datasets acquire half-written records and duplicate households.
Supervisors see submissions arrive in the dashboard at https://smartlarms.com, where review, approval, rate schedules and reporting live.
Valuation the collector cannot get wrong
Compensation rates come from the project's approved schedule and are resolved automatically from the asset type and the administrative unit the record sits in. A collector selects what they are looking at; they do not type in a rate, and cannot apply one from the wrong district.
Cut-off dates are enforced on the device
When a census is closed, the app knows. Late admissions are refused at the point of entry rather than discovered during a completion audit, which is where an unenforced cut-off date usually surfaces — long after it can be cheaply corrected.
What it does not do
SmartLARMS records payments; it does not make them. There is no wallet, no disbursement and no money movement of any kind in the app. Compensation is paid through whatever channel the project already uses, and reconciled against the register afterwards.
It is also not a general-purpose survey tool. The forms are shaped around resettlement practice — entitlement, tenure, replacement cost, grievance redress — and that shape is the point.
Getting access
The app is issued to project teams rather than sold per seat on the store. If your organisation is running a Resettlement Action Plan and you want to evaluate it, get in touch through the main site. If you already have an account and need help, see support.