INTERACTIVE HOSTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Main Author: Kamari, Aznin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2011
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7477/1/2011%20-%20Interactive%20Hostel%20management%20system.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/7477/

The project is intended to come out with an interactive system that helps the students to perform the defect report to the Residential College (RC) unit and registering available room preferred in effective way. The current problem now is that the current system is not working properly because the RC unit does not provide sufficient information on the hostel layout and exposure on available room that can be booked and registered by the students. Thus the current system is done manually again in which then burdening the students especially students returning from industrial training and students wishing to change their current room which requiring them to propose a formal letter. Scope of study for the project involves the study area that targeting UTP students as the users which includes current students, new students and students returning from industrial training. Moreover, study is conducted towards designing the hostel layout using java and research on the UTP hostel management procedure. The project is implemented using waterfall model of system development life cycle as the project methodology consist of five phases which are planning, analysis by interview and questionnaires, designing, implement and testing. Based on the interview and questionnaires, it shows that there is a need to improve the current system. Thus, the Interactive Hostel Management System provides an interactive hostel layout to help students in UTP to select their preferable room and to ease finding the correct location to report any defect within the hostel.