NOTEPHONES SYSTEM

Author : Allen Mwangonde

Supervisor : Prof. Isabel M. Venter Co-Supervisor: Dr .B. Tucker

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OVERVIEW

• Brief description of the project

• Implementation

• Progress

• Challenges

• Tools and language used

• Demo

• References

• Questions & answers

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

• What is the NotePhones system? A mobile application that will track and

remind members of meeting events before they occur

Display meeting schedules, minutes or regularly scheduled events

Allow participants to make the necessary preparations for the meeting

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IMPLEMENTATION

It consists of two applications1.Mobile app – allows sending SMS through a gateway to the server

2.Application on server receives SMS from the gateway and updates the database

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Application on server sends SMS through the gateway to mobile phone

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IMPLEMENTATION CONT…

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PROGRESS

Changes made to previous prototypeChanges to interface

Sending minutes via gateway

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PROGRESS CONT…

Accomplished (with an emulator) Create new agenda Update the agenda Create minutes

and all of these are then updated on the database

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WORK IN PROGRESS

• Actual implementation on a cell phone

• So far could not implement the gateway successfully

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CHALLENGES

• Identifying the correct cell phone

• Configuring the SMS gateway (not yet done)

• Installing the application on the cellphone

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TOOLS USED

MySQL, Apache VB.Net Notepad++ editor Ozeking - SMS Gateway A PC and Nokia E 710 mobile phone

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Demo

Link to the demo:

Create agenda

Update agenda

View minutes

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Project Plan TERM DATE OF

SUBMISSION SUBMITTED

Term 1

Project Analysis 2012/03/30YES

Term 2 Project Design and Development UIS document OOA document OOD document Presentation two

2012/05/30 YESYESYESYESYES

Term 3 Project Implementation 2012/09/10 YES

Term 4 Project Testing, Evaluation and 2012/11/02 NOPresentation

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References

1. Glossary of Terms, ITU-infoDev ICT Regulation Toolkit. (2010). http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/Glossary.

2. Chao, L. (2010). HTC to Sell Branded Smartphones in Mainland Push. The Wall Street Journal.

3. Landay, J. A. (1999). Making sharing pervasive: Ubiquitous computing for shared note taking. IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Vol.38(No.4).

4. Luz, M.-M. B. (2006). Meeting browsing.

5. Mahangu, A. (2010). Minutes Management System. University of the Western Cape, Computer Science Department. Unpublished Honours Project.

6. Marc, P. (2001). Digital Natives Digital Immigrants. Vol. 9(No. 5).

7. UCT. (2009, july 29). UCT centre in ICT4D. Retrieved from UCT centre in ICT4D: http://www.ict4d.cs.uct.ac.za/

8. Zuckerman, E. (2010). Decentralizing the Mobile Phone:A Second ICT4D Revolution? Retrieved from http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/viewFile/631/271

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Questions & answers