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I am currently a student of BSc Computer System Engineering in IUB, Pakistan.I am always in search of experimenting new things and implementing new ideas to mobile platform.My aim is to make things easier for developers by helping them via any medium. Currently, i am learning & experimenting Flash Lite, Python, Symbian C++, JavaME & QT.
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USEoSMS – A solution to improve Notification System
sajisoft | 23 June, 2010 16:54
I surveyed some colleges in Pakistan including mine and find out that the notification system we are using i.e. displaying notifications on a notification board is not much efficient from student's point of view. Because of the reasons like
- Limited space: Old notifications replaced by new one when the board is full and if any one missed an important notification like results, last date of fee submission, college openings etc than there are chances of loss for students who missed them in time.
- Not Efficient: In vacations many students go to their homes and in the mean while if the date of the vacations gets extended then a student may encounter trouble or rumors regarding opening of the college .
- Many universities/colleges/schools have their own site which can be a good source of notification but again many students may don’t have internet connectivity in under developed country or they are too lazy to check the site for updates.
- Some institutions uses twitter for updates but again the above reason is valid to some extent.
Based on this survey, I start thinking of a project which helps to bring an effective change in the current notification system and student’s life.After few days of thinking, i hit upon an idea i.e using the economical SMS packages and designing an SMS Server Software to put these SMSs in an useful way. At 5th of June 2010, i am able to finish the coding of my first release of this server "USEoSMS" for Nokia Symbian Phones. Lets describe this server in detail :
USEoSMS
USEoSMS is an SMS Server Software for Symbian 3rd & 5th edition phones especially designed to improve school/colleges current notification system. The goal of the project is to replace the old notification table system which is not very efficient with a technological, economical and effective system. The concept of the software is to extract the parameters from a received SMS and perform action accordingly like send it to all the students of batch 07 in Electrical Engineering department. Of course, it provides a database for power users, users , updates and blacklisting contact. SMS packages are quite cheap in Pakistan (& other countries like Philippine etc), so, there is no problem with economical issues while implementing this system.The features of the server are:
1- A single executable of SMS Server works fine on both 3rd and 5th edition Nokia phones because it is resolution independent.
2- It provides a db explorer to create & manage the included databases.
3- It can be used for two way notifications i.e. Students->Teachers and vice versa
4- It can be used to write an update on its wall which can be accessed by any general user which knows the number of Nokia phone in which it is installed.
5- It provides twitter support i.e. one can directly post notifications to the twitter account provided in the server settings.
6- It provides a feedback to the sender if sender's query goes well or not.
7- It provides four databases i.e power users (whose queries will get processed) , users (who can receive sms), updates (the wall of the notification table) and blacklist numbers(whose queries will not get processed).
8- Supports updating the database via messages from power users.
9- Simple and Easy to use interface.
How To Use
Once the database of USEoSMS is updated with college staff and student numbers than it is as easy as ABC to use the notification system. For example, a power user wants to send a notification to all students of Electrical Engineering Batch 07 then he just have to enter "user;pwd;group;tweet;my message" and send it to the server number, the server simply extracts the parameter send the message to group , publish it on twitter account and send a feedback report to the power user who sent this query.
Similarly, a power user can update the wall of USEoSMS by sending message "user;pwd;update;Our college got a new lab guyz!" to the server number and the server simply update its database with this new update. Now, any general user who just know the number of the server , can send a message having keyword "update" to the server and will get a feedback from the server including the latest updates or updates on the requested date .
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Currently, i am putting it in operational use on my College (UCET), IUB. Once its implementation goes successful in our college, we will make it available for public.
Btw, this application is finalized and sent to Calling All Innovators Contest 2010.
Best Regards,
Sajid Ali Anjum
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I like it!
buy a paper | 24/06/2010, 14:17
Do you need any help ? I like your idea and would like to take part in it.
Very Good
Syed Imran Haider Naqvi | 24/06/2010, 16:44
Dear Mr, Sajid Ali Anjum
Very good you are doing and it is appreciateable.
As being a student your efforts are very high you are a leading personality for the students to encourge them and motivate them for efforts they can.
You are proud of pakistan and pakistani nation and i hope you will guide others and you will be a bright mark internationally.
Praying for you,
Syed Imran Haider Naqvi
Thanks!
sajisoft | 02/07/2010, 20:38
@Symbian_Neil
Thanks for wishing me good luck :)
@buy a paper
Thanks for letting me know. Currently, we are putting it in operational use
@Syed Imran Haider Naqvi
Your comments are very much appreciative for me & it surely accelerate me in a more positive direction. Thanks for writing cute comment and i will surely share my knowledge with others by conducting a workshop in my college soon.
Best Regards,
Sajid Ali Anjum
Thanks
noak3 | 10/09/2010, 15:55
Hey Sajid! Just want to thank you for this well written and very informative article! Keep up the good job. Greetings from London.
hey bro
safi.ban06 | 08/10/2010, 21:14
i liked ur application can be productive i m a final engineering student and i''l be doing a project my area of intreset is mobile computing can u suggest any good project for me if u have any idea????
Hi Safi
sajisoft | 08/10/2010, 21:26
No body other than you can tell your field of interest in mobile computing & what you learn in the last 3 years. So, the best thing is to sit on a chair and ask yourself what u can do better than any one else and what is actually required by people around you. Few of the hot topics in my mind are Augmented Reality, Robots, LBS etc. You can also take a look here for some good ideas :
http://ideas.symbian.org/
Best of luck ;)
Best Regards,
Sajid Ali Anum
Nice!!
Symbian_Neil | 24/06/2010, 12:25
Very Nice and innovative solution. Good Luck!!