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Chapter 1

A Propose PC-based Professor Locator and Log-In System for CEIT

Introduction

Siena College of Taytay, formerly St. Catherine Academy, is a

Kindergarten through Education Institution located inTaytay, Rizal. It was

founded in 1957 by theDominican sisters. One of the Siena College Taytays

buildings is St. Dominic, where Engineering Professors are located. Professors are

one of the busiest people in the College of Engineering and Information

Technology of Siena College of Taytay. They often go from one classroom to

another to attend classes and other activities for their work. Because of the hectic

schedules of the CEIT professors, sometimes they forgot to notify the faculty that

they will be away.

For years, students oftengo inside the faculty to ask if a certain professor

is around. Such situation may disturb the professors who are preparing a lecture

for their respective classes or checking quizzes and/or major exams of the

students under them. As we all know, the faculty room is not a place for the

students to stay in. Most ofthe time students who are asking for their respective

professors from the student assistant stays inside the faculty room for prolonged

period of time instead if going outside and wait for their professors to go inside

the room assigned to them.

With these things going on most of the time, students are sometimes

becoming a source of disturbance not only for their respective professor but to the
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other professors who are also inside the faculty computing grades or doing any

other thing related to their profession.

These are the reasons why the proponents proposed the CEIT Professor

Locator to know if the professors are available on that time or not or whether they

are in school or if they are absent for the day. The aim of the study is to create a

system to identify the location of the professor easily without asking the student

assistant or any other people inside the faculty room and to minimize as well the

disturbance caused by the students who are asking for where the professor is. The

study will also show the schedule of the CEIT professors for the whole week

including the room number assigned for each subject they handle. The locator

system will display the location of a certain professor in the display monitor

outside the faculty, so the students will easily find their professors. The study

will provide an easy, quick and convenient way for everyone to track down the

location of a certain professor within the boundaries of 2nd

floor, St. Dominic

Bldg.

Statement of the Problem

General Problem

How to design a device that can easily locate and visually identify the

location of CEIT professor without disturbing people in the faculty office?


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The figure shows the Input-Process-Output (IPO) of the project. These are

the elements of the system, the input of the system would be the ID number of the

professor and the output is displayed on the LCD screen. Information such as the

professors name, room location, schedules are the details will be displayed in the

monitor.

From the beginning of the process, the professor will have to scan their ID

so that it will save the room location of the professor into the server. In case the

professor misplaced or forgot their ID, they can use the numeric keypad provided

to input their ID number as an alternative input device.

If a guest wants to see the professor, they will have to go in front of the

faculty where the monitor is located for them to see the room location of the

professor. They can click the picture of the professor to see their schedule of

classes, or notice that they will attend other business outside or inside the school.

As for the chairpersons view, it is the same as looking at the monitor outside the

faculty.

Objective of the Study

General Objective

To develop a project that will help those people who are looking for the

professor easier.


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Specific Objective

Listed below are the specific objectives of the study:

1. To create a system that will help save time in searching for the professor.2. To make a system that could track the location of the professor easier.3. To implement a system that will help to avoid disturbance on the queries

of students to their professors.

Significance of the Study

This section creates a perspective for looking for the importance and

beneficiaries of the study. It points out how the study helps everyone in the CEIT

Department:

CEI T Chairperson & Professors

The chairperson and the professors will be the main beneficiaries of the

system. The system will help them with following:

The disturbance caused by the students or visitors who are inside thefaculty room will be minimized.

The chairperson or other professors will have the idea where their fellowprofessors room location.

The chairperson can monitor the attendance of the professor easier. The chairperson or other professors knows the schedules of the fellow

professors.


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Students

For the side of the students, their benefits to the system are the following:

The students will track the professor faster and easier. The students will identify if the professor is in the school or not. The students will see the schedules of the professors.

Scopes and Limitations

The scopes of the system are the following:

Students

The system has LCD Touch screen Monitor which displays the professorsschedules and which room are they located.

The system allows the faculty to leave a remarks or any related matter forthe students to be informed.

Faculty

The system has a Barcode Scanner that can scan the barcode of IDs. The system provides a Numeric Keypad can be used to input the ID

number of the professor in case they misplaced or forgot their ID.

The system provides a Finger Print Scanner so that only the professorshave the authority to input in the LCD Touch screen Monitor.

The system can record the log-in and log-out time of the professors perroom.


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The system records the schedules of the professors. The system use biometrics as security for log-in. The system includes the summary of the professors log-in/out, daily and

monthly attendance.

The system includes the summary per room usage.The limitations of the system are the following:

It only covers the 2ndfloor of St. Dominic Building. The system is implanted for CEIT Department of Siena College Taytay

only.

Non-Professors has limited access to the system, they could only look forthe schedules and the room location of the professors.

Definition of Terms:

Biometric - pertaining to, noting, or using a person's unique physical and other

traits for the purposes of identification and security.

Locator - The act or process of locating.

Barcode Scanning-means translating optical characters printed on the back of

different commercial products. Bar codes usually represent a product identity

code provided by a manufacturing organization for the purpose of product

categorization.

Barcode-it is used to read data and information based upon the widths of those

small black lines.


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Fingerprint - An impression on a surface of the curves formed by the ridges on a

fingertip, especially such an impression made in ink and used as a means of

identification.

Fingerprint Scanner-device that scans a fingerprint and keeps a record of it.


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CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

In this chapter, the focus is on various literatures and studies that explain

the concepts of different locator system. Similarities and differences of these

literatures and studies to the proposed project will be discussed within this

chapter.

Precision Personnel Locator System

The latest development in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and

Precision Personnel Locator (PPL) is The RF-based PPL system is being

developed for tracking of first responders and other personnel in indoor

environments. The system assumes no existing infrastructure, no pre-

characterization of the area of operation and is designed for spectral compliance.

Recent testing with wider bandwidth (150MHz) ranging signals has shown sub-

meter positioning accuracy of a transmitter even in difficult indoor environments

with high multi-path all receivers being placed outside the building.

As part of the testing and evaluation, fire fighters from the local Worcester

fire department provided feedback on various systems aspects: the suitability of

the locator devices worn by the first responders, the incident commanders display

unit, the improvement in situational awareness, and the suitability for both search

and rescue operations. The system has also been extended to provide basic

physiological information from the users, and a preliminary evaluation is also

included. (URL 1)


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Active Badge Location System

Efficient location and coordination of staff in any large organization is a

difficult and recurring problem. Hospitals, for example, may require up-to-date

information about the location of staff and patients, particularly when medical

emergencies arise. In an office building, a receptionist is usually responsible for

determining the location of staff members in some organizations, public address

systems are provided to help a receptionist locate employees but, more frequently,

a telephone is used to contact all the possible locations at which the required

person might be found. These solutions can cause a great deal of irritation and

disruption to other employees; a solution that provides direct location information

is more desirable.

Location information for office staff that is available in a computer-

readable format can also be used to improve the operation of the office telephone

system. Integration of telephone systems with computer systems is also important

in the development of the automated office. Much work hasalready been

undertaken integrating digital voice and computer data into a single network, but

there has been less commercial effort invested in improving the telephone

interface. Although these interfaces are functionally sophisticated, they are cryptic

and their operation is difficult to remember. (URL 2)


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A Short-Range Locator System for Detecting Trapped Miners

As part of the Bureau of Mines health and safety research program, a

short-range locator system, capable of locating miners who have become trapped

following a mine accident, has been devised.

The system consists of a lightweight, low-power radio transmitter

incorporated into a miner's cap lamp battery and a directional receiver carried by

rescuers. Prototype transmitters have been constructed, and the propagation of

their signals has been investigated.

The detect ability of the signal in underground coal mines has also been

investigated, This research indicates that a short-range location system would

serve as an economical and practical means of locating miners from within the

mine following an accident. (URL 3)

Online detainee locator

A system used by the US immigration and customs enforcement which is

use to locate a detainee which is currently under the custody of ICE. You can

search using the A-number of a detainee which is recommended by the ICE or

you can search by their biological information. The system cannot provide records

of person below 18 years of age.

The online detainee locator provides a search bar to search for the location

of a certain detainee. Since the US keeps records of their detainees, the locator is


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a must have for them. The locator recommends the used of the A-number for easy

searching of the detainees.(URL 4)

National Housing Locator

HUDs NHL is a response to lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and

related disasters. It complements HUDs proven housing and emergency disaster

voucher programs and is designed to be a single, Internet-based website that will

assist individuals and families in finding rental housing in a Presidential-declared

or local disaster.

The NHL is a searchable, web-based clearinghouse of available rental

housing nation-wide. It allows HUD and its business partners, in particular State

Housing Authorities, public housing authorities, and other critical First

Responders, to deliver housing assistance by rapidly locating rental housing and

available government-owned single family homes for sale during emergency. The

NHL uses a rental housing industry standard for requesting data, and collects

available responses to a housing request from private and public housing locators

across the country. A selected housing query through a website sends the

requester to the private or public housing locator providing the data. The original

data provider provides the details on the rental, points of contact and other value

added resources. (URL 5)


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New locator system for North Luzon Express Way (NLEX)

The AVLS, which is used by the most modern expressways overseas, is a

combination of hardware, software and maps that enables traffic specialists in a

control room to track down patrol vehicles deployed on the thoroughfare in real

time.This allows them to immediately dispatch the nearest patrol car to the area

where the accident happened, Aberilla said. (URL 6)

UCB ultrasound Personal Locator System

The system consists of one to five small ultrasound emitting devices

(locators) and one ultrasound receiving device. Each locator is worn on an

individuals clothing and produces a distinct pattern that is emitted every few

seconds. The ultrasound receiver, mounted on the wall of a room, detects the

pattern from the ultrasound emitting locator. If the identifying signal pattern

emitted from a particular locator is received a certain number of times during a

minute, that locator, and presumably the person wearing it, is recorded as being

present in the room during that minute. Preliminary tests show good results, with

a 93% accuracy rate in field trials as measured against direct observation. Future

improvements include a stand-alone feature for the receiver, better current

consumption, reduction of sensitivity, and more field testing. (URL 7)


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Synthesis

Cited literature and studies show the different kinds of locator system that

already exist. Literatures explain how inventing machines evolved through ages

of innovation. In foreign literatures especially locator system, it covers a large

variety of services it can bring to the people.

The proposed project is similar to these cited literatures and studies in

terms of undergoing enhancements. The basic features of a locator machine are

included like guide information of looking for something. However, the proposed

project is far different from these literatures and studies in terms of using

manageable barcode scanner for the professors location.

Since the study that the researchers are proposing is similar to the basic

concepts of the cited literatures and studies conducted, these existing studies may

contribute to the recreating of the current study being done by the proponents. The

proponents believe that the current enhancements of the proposed study will be

beneficial to Siena community.


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CHAPTER 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Prototyping is a method used by designers to acquire feedback from users

about future designs. Prototypes are similar to mock-ups, but are usually not as

low-fidelity as mock-ups and appear slightly later in the design process.

(Soegaard, 2009)

The proponents decided to use a prototyping model which was developed

on the currently known requirements. This model includes Communication,

Quick Plan, Modelling Quick Design, Construction of Prototype, Development

Delivery and Feedback that helps the researchers to gather information and come

up with this project. The figure below shows the model diagram that the

researchers used.

Figure 2 Prototyping Model Diagram (B.B. Agarwal, S.P. Tayal, M. Gupta)

The prototyping method starts from communication where the proponents

will talk about necessary topics of the project followed by a quick plan in which a


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plan on designing the project will be formulated, the third step is modelling quick

design where the initial design of the project will be created, and next step is

creating the prototype in which the final design and function of the machine will

be created the last step is development delivery and feedback this is where the

machine will be tested by the beneficiaries and their feedbacks on the machine

will be given to the proponents for further improvements.

Project Design

The proposed system will be implemented with these expected functions

and specifications:

To begin, the professor will have to scan their ID at the barcode scanner

located in each room to store their location. In case the professor forgot or lost

their IDs the system provides a manual process in which the professors could

input their unique codes through the use of number pad. When someone wants to

meet a professor, a monitor that contains the professors information and location

is located near the door of the CEIT office. So the student will know the location

of the professor without asking or looking all around the CEIT department

The system will provide a daily attendance module for the professors of

the CEIT department. The module will record the time of log-in and log-out of the

professors. The monitor will also display the schedule of a subject assigned to a

specific room for the week.

The fingerprint scanner provided, will allow the professors to leave a note

telling whether they are busy or available to accept questions from students or


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guests. Upon scan of the finger print of a certain professor, their profile will

appear and they can leave a note.

Project Development

The proponents used the prototyping technique to develop the design

project. It is a process of implementing the easiest way of gathering information

to achieve the satisfactory of the people who using the system. The proponents

studied different kinds of variation to manage the pattern of locating numbers of

people who where it from.

The following are the step by step phase of project development which

was done by the proponents:

Phase I: Communication

The proponents gathered information by asking questions to students and

school staff to have an idea on how the proponents system will work well. The

proponents earn their knowledge by listening and applying all the opinions of

their adviser and fellow students of the school by communicating with each other

for this kind of system.

Phase II: Quick Plan

The proponents have conducted interviews to the beneficiaries of the

proposed project to know their opinion and insights about the project. Also the

proponents conducted a brainstorm to know what will be the outcome of this

system, and so the proponents provided new ideas to enhance and improve the


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existing system. Observing similar existing systems will help the proponents to

improve it. The proponents conducted several interviews on a number of users

representing the departments or aspects of the existing system. Through this, the

researchers provided ideas to enhance and make the existing system more

significant. Data gathering and observations of the existing system are conducted

to help the researchers surface further development of the system.

Phase III: Modelling Quick Design

The appearance and display of the system will be designed in a user

friendly manner. A monitor will be placed outside the faculty room for the

students to see easily if their respective professors is already on the school or will

be absent for the day. A scanner will be placed outside each room for the

professors to log in and update their location that is displayed in the monitor, a

numeric keypad that will also be placed outside the room in case the professors

left their ID, this will serve as an alternative way of logging in and out.

Phase IV: Construction of Prototypes

It is where the prototype of the machine will be created, the appearance,

display and functioning system of the machine will be designed and created. After

the system is created, the proponents will do several test to determine bugs and

errors.

Phase V: Development Delivery and Feedback


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After completion of the prototype, the proponents conducted a

demonstration that will test the design, speed and accuracy of the project. As the

system appear not exactly as like a perfect system, the proponents still find some

variety of errors or bugs that may affect the working process of this system. After

testing, the researchers distributed questionnaires for the evaluation of the

prototype to assess the whole system.

Operation procedure

The Propose PC-based Professor Locator and Log-in System for CEIT

will be located at the 2nd

floor of St. Dominic of Siena College Taytay to help the

guests or students of the professor to know their location easier and to show their

schedules.

In this section, the proponents will explain the steps on how the system

works:


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Figure 3.1 Storing of Room Location, Schedules and Notice of the Professor.

This figure shows how the professor stores their room location, schedules

and notice to the system. If the professor arrives at the CEIT Department, the first

place that they will go is the faculty office to prepare for their class. If, any

circumstances that the professor unexpectedly has to attend other business like

meetings, they will have to encode a memo so that it will leave a notice that they

are away. In order to save their room location, the professor should swipe their ID

then input what room location they will enter. In case they forgot or lost their ID,


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schedules of the professor by clicking the professors picture. The schedules and

any notice in case the professor left the school earlier will be displayed.

Evaluation Procedure

The proponents will make an evaluation procedure that will determine the

effectiveness of the prototype in its operation in the CEIT department. The

proponents will prepare the prototype for the evaluation procedure

The proponents will provide survey form for students and the professors.

The proponents will take 50% of the population of the students and professors to

test the efficiency, effectiveness and user friendliness of the prototype.

The overall performance of the prototype will be determined by the

following criteria selected by the proponents. The criteria are: accuracy, speed,

convenience, design, and user friendliness.


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Evaluation criteria for faculty

members:

Accuracy 30%

Speed 20%

User friendliness 20%

Design 20%

Convenience 10%

Total 100%

Evaluation criteria for CEIT

students:

Accuracy 35%

Speed 25%

Design 25%

Convenience 15%

Total 100%

Accuracy- the machine functions with less errors, it shows the exact room

number where the professor logged in.

Speed-the machine updates the location of the professor on the display

monitor right after they scan their ID or input their employee number in the

numeric keypad.

Design- includes the appearance of the machine and the interface in the

display monitor.

Convenience- the machine helped the students to find their professor

easier


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User friendliness- the machine has easy to use tools which would help the

users to use it without a hassle.

Equivalent Grade:

Excellent = 100%-90%

Very Good = 90%-80%

Good = 80%-70%

Poor = 70%-60%

Needs Improvement = 60% and below


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References

Book Sources

Software Engineering and Testing (B.B. Agarwal, S.P. Tayal, M. Gupta)

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