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Campus Portal for Wireless Devices

S HI L A DITYA MA N DAL , KAUSTAV G HOS H , AN AN D G OYAL & OMKAR HAN DE

Overview & Scope

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Overview
The Campus Portal is developed using university campus as the setting and the domain for applications developed for the portal for wireless devices. The application focuses on the immediate needs of both students and faculty while they arent in their respective

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Overview
General student on-the move needs like :-

Maintaining Time Table

Classrooms for respective classes Faculty chamber Checking whether faculty is in chamber or not Calendar upcoming exams, assignments, holidays etc. Notifications if any class is cancelled Putting phone on silent during class Filling up mess option

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Scope
The scope of application may not be restricted to the mentioned features only, but can extend by including features like maintaining marks, speed-dial to MedC/Doctor, Security Gate, Faculty chamber etc. Also it can sync with college database/SWD/ARC to give immediate notifications for any notices etc.

Apart from Campus Portal, with minor modifications and keeping the architecture similar, this can be used in large Corporate.

Functional Modules

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Student Modules
Add or Remove Course : A student has the functionality to add a course to his schedule. For example, the courses that he/she may be attending informally. Prior to confirmation, the application checks for clashes with existing schedule. Choose Mess : Students can choose their mess directly from their mobile devices. Mess option availability appears as a notification to the user whenever mess admins enable this option.

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Faculty Modules
See list of registered students : A faculty user has the functionality to view all the students and their contact detail who registered under a course(s) taught by him/her Cancel Classes : A faculty can cancel a particular class in his schedule by just pressing a button. The same is notified to the students in form of a Notification on their Android devices. Quick Message : Ability to send a message to the group of students registered under a course

Set Chamber Availability : Faculty can set his chamber availability, i.e., Available or Away whenever in chamber or free to attend students. A student user on the other hand, can view the availability status of each faculty member that he/she wants to approach

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Common Modules
Miscellaneous Contact Information : SWD, Medical Center, ARC, Cafeteria, Cab service etc.

View Course, Faculty or Student pages

Edit personal Details

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Background Tasks
Reminder : The system sends a reminder to the student 10 minutes prior to his/her scheduled class Auto Silent during class: The phone automatically enters Silent mode during class hours and goes back to normal otherwise. Receive Broadcast Messages

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Administrator Role
Send Broadcast messages

Monitoring/Modification of database
Reset password

Non functional Requirements

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Components
Front end mobile application

Background service
Web server(Apache) Database server(MySQL)

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Background Service
The UI thread(where user gives touch/text input to screen will run independently of the background service. Background service is basically an AsyncTask. android.os.AsyncTask<Params, Progress, Result>

This class allows to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and/or handlers.

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Background service
Service is started once the client installs the application on a wireless device.

The background service will always run, irrespective of whether application is running/not running or phone is locked
Even if phone is switched off, the service will automatically start once the phone switches on(uses Broadcast Receivers).

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System Interfaces
Development: IDE: Eclipse 3.7.2 Java SDK 1.6 Android SDK v20.0.2 Drawing Tools: ArgoUML

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User Interfaces
Home screen: Grid view of all functions available. Each grid item consists of an Image Button and corresponding title Most functional Activities(An activity is a single, focused thing that the user can do) will be List views student/faculty/course profile, contact lists, etc. Horizontal and vertical scroll bars will be used to support varying screen sizes

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Notifications
Outside normal UI, reminders and updates conveyed to user via notifications in the status bar. For example, class cancellation notification/broadcast messages.

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Hardware Interfaces
Client Side: Wireless devices running with Wi-Fi/GPRS connectivity.

Server Side: Remote machine hosting Apache web server ability to receive HTTP GET/POST requests.
Central database server

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Software Interfaces
Client Side: Android OS

Server Side: Apache server hosts all PHP scripts which processes the requests from the application front end.
Database server: The PHP scripts interact with the MySQL server either on the same machine/remote server.

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Security
Username, passwords, and other private information cannot be extracted from either the web server or front end application without authorization. Encryption of password(md5) before sending over network for authentication.

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Reliability
The front end application will work perfectly even if network connection is unstable(AsyncTask). Also, reliability depends a lot on the status of the central database server(already in place). If the central database server is down, the application might not work as expected, but all cached data will still be visible.

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Response
Response of application depends on 3 things:
Responsiveness of clients wireless device Network strength and quality Amount of network data download/upload

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Use-Case Diagram

Logical Database

Sample Enrolled Relation Table

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Thank You! Questions?