With these requirements in consideration, we implemented a concept which is depicted schematically in Figure . The implementation of this concept uses technologies that are available freely/cheaply to most laboratories such as (open source) software to act as a data management system, mobile devices with an integrated camera as instruments for gathering data in the laboratory environment and open source toolkits that could be used to develop a new permissively licensed app to be used on said mobile devices. The suggested process includes five main steps: