INTERACTIVE HOSTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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.