E-Fict Information System Based On Web And SMS.

E-FICT INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED O N WEB AND S M S

CHUA J O E SHING

BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS TESIS*

JUDUL: E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS SES I PENGAJIAN: 2009120 10

Saya CHUA JOE S H M G mengaku membenarkan tesis (PSMISa rjana1Doktor

Falsafah) ini disimpan di Perpustakaan Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi dengan syarat-syarat kegunaan seperti berikut:

1. Tesis den projek adalah hakrnilik Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka.

2. perpustakaan Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi dibenarkan membuat salinan untuk tujuan pengajian sahaja.

3. Perpustakaan Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi dibenarkan membuat salinan tesis ini sebagai bahan pertukaran antara institusi pengajian tinggi.

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E-FICT INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED ON WEB AND SMS

CHUA JOE SHING

This report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Computer Science (Networking)

FACULTY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITI TEKNJKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that this project report entitled

E-FICT INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED ON WEB MID SMS

is written by me and is my own effort and that no part has been plagiarized without citations.

STUDENT Date:

(CHUA JOE SHING)

SUPERVISOR Date:

DEDICATION

To my beloved parents, Mr. Chua Kim Tian and Mrs. Lan Kwee Fong, for their seems less expression o f love and hlly support

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

They were many people who contributed in various ways to this project. This project would not have been possible without the expert advice and suggestion of my beloved supervisor, En. Azman b. Mat Ariff. Thanks En. Azman for the many suggestions and invaluable information that you provided and your willingness for contribute your time to this effort.

Thanks also to the University Technical Malaysia Malacca (UTeM) for offering Projek Sarjana Muda (PSM) as a compulsory subject for students to obtain the degree. In addition, I'm also very gratehl for all the PSM committee members for their great help in organizing talks to students.

Beyond the professionals involved in this project, my course mates and family were also quite influential in this work. Thanks to my course mates for giving me their precious opinions. ideas, comments and resources. Thank you for being there to listen to me gripe about my work. To my beloved family, thank you for their unending support and motivation.

ABSTRACT

ABSTRAK

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER SUBJECT

PROJECT TITLE DECLARATION DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT

ABSTRAK

TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FlGURES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ATTACHMENTS CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Project Background 1.2 Problem Statement 1.3 Objectives

1.4 Scopes

1.5 Project Significance 1.6 Expected Output 1.7 Conclusion

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CHAPTER I1 LITERATURE REVIEW AND PROJECT METHODOLOGY 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Literature Review

2.2. I Domain Background 2.2.2 Keyword

2.2.3 Previous Research

2.2.3.1 Case Study 1 : A Generic Notification System for Internet Information Lot Sizing

2.2.3.2 Case Study 2: Developing a SMS-Based Classroom Interaction

2.2.3.3 Case Study 3:

Development of Integrated E-Parcel Management System with GSM Network

2.2.3.4 Case Study 4: GSM Based SMS Time Reservation System for Dental Care 2.2.3.5 Case Study 5: The blended

discourse of SMS

communication in a mobile student administration system

2.2.3.6 Comparison of Case Study 2.2.3.7 Methodologies

2.2.3.8 Software and Hardware 2.2.3.8.1 Scripting

2.2.3.8.2 Database Management Software (DBMS) 2.2.3.8.3 Global System for

Mobile

Communication (GSM) Modem 2.3 Proposed Solution

2.3.1 Project Methodology 2.4 Project Schedule and Milestone 2.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 111 _ANALYSIS 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Problem Analysis

3.2.1 Background of Current System 3.2.2 Flow Chart of the Current

System

3.2.3 Problems of Current System 3.3 Requirement Analysis

3.3.1 Data Requirement 3.3.2 Functional Requirement

3.3.2.1 Overview of Functional Requirement

3.3.2.2 Data Flow Diagram (DFD) of system that will be developed

3 -3 -3 Non-Functional Requirement 3.3.4 Other Requirement

CHAPTER IV DESIGN 4.1 Introduction 4.2 High Level Design

4.2.1 System Architecture 4.2.2 User Interface Design

4.2.2.1 Navigation Design 4.2.2.2 Input Design 4.2.2.3 Output Design 4.2.3 Database Design

4.2.3.1 Conceptual and Logical Database Design 4.3 Detailed Design

4.3.1 Software Design

4.3.2 Physical Database Design 4.4. Conclusion

CHAPTER V IMPLEMENTATION 5.1 lntroduction

5.2 Software Development Environment Setup

5.2.1 Software Setup 5.2.2 Hardware Setup 5.2.3 Network Setup 5.3 Software Configuration

Management

5.3.1 Configuration environment setup 5.3.2 Version Control Procedure 5.4 Implementation Status

5.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 1'1 TESTING

6.2.1 Test Organization 6.2.2 Test Environment 6.2.3 Test Schedule 6.3 Test Strategy

6.3.1 Classes of tests 6.4 Test Design

6.4.1 Test Description 6.4.2 Test Data

6.5 Test Results and Analysis 6.6 Conclusion

CHAPTER V11 PROJECT CONCLUSION

7.1 Observation on Weaknesses and Strengths

7.1.1 System Strengths 7.1.2 System Weaknesses 7.2 Propositions for Improvement 7.3 Contribution

7.4 Conclusion

LIST O F TABLES

TABLE TITLE

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Progress of OUM

Comparison of Project Methodologies Comparison of Scripting Languages

Comparison of Database Management Software (DBMS)

Comparison of GSM 'modem Data Model of Login Table Data Model of Subject Table

Data Model of Announcement Table Data Model of Document Table Data Model of Assignment Table Data Model of List - assignment Table Data Model of List - assignment Table Data Model of Outbox Table

List and Description of Software Requirement of this System

List and Description of Hardware Requirement of this System

Description of Login Page

Description of Course Page - Create a new Course

Description of Announcement Page

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Add a new Announcement

Description of Document Page - Upload a new Document File

Description of Assignment Page - Create a new Assignment File

Description of Assignment Page - Upload an Assignment File

Description of Message Page - Create a new

Message to send

Server Configuration of E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS

Version Control Procedure

E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS's Test Organization

E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS's Test Environment

E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS's Test Schedule

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LIST O F FIGURES

FIGURE TITLE

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Barriers to Corporate eLearning in AsiaIPacific (ex Japan)

TXT-2-LRN Infrastructure

The total process of dental service appointment scheduling with the new SMS based system Incremental Model

Spiral Model Waterfall Model iTegno 3000

Sony Ericsson G705 Wavecom Fastrack

Model of System Development Life Cycle (SDLK) Flow Chart of current system for Administrator part

Flow Chart of current system for Student part Percentage of Surveyors who Agree to Improve the System

Context Diagram of the E-FICT lnformation System based on Web and SMS

Data Flow Diagram Level 1 _{of the Login Module}

of the E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS

Data Flow Diagram Level 1 of the User Account Module of the E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS

Data Flow Diagram Level 1 of the Course Module of the E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS

Data Flow Diagram Level 1 of the Messages Module of the E-FICT Information System based on Web and SMS

Diagram of Ozeki Message Server Diagram of the system architecture Login Page

My User Account Page - Create a new User Account

My User Account Page - View and Update own User Account

Course Page - Create a new Course and Update Course

Announcement Page - Add a new Announcement and update announcement

Document Page

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Upload a new Document File Assignment Page - Create a new Assignment and update assignment

Assignment Page

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Upload a n Assignment File Message Page - Send a new Message

My User Account Page - View and Update own

User Account

Course List Page

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View Course list, Modify a n d Delete Course

Announcement Page - View Announcements list, Modify and Delete Announcement

Document Page - View Documents list and Delete Document (Lecturer)

Document Page - View Documents list and Download a Document File (Student)

Assignment Page - View Assignments list, Modify and Delete created Assignment (Lecturer)

Assignment Page - View Assignments (Student) List Assignment Page

-

View uploaded

assignments, Download, and Delete Uploaded Assignment (Lecturer)

lnbox Page

-

View Inbox Messages and Delete In box Messages

Outbox Page - View Outbox Messages and Delete Outbox Messages

Software Development Environment Setup Network Architecture Diagram

Installation of Sony Ericsson G705 as the GSM Modem

Configuration of GSM Modem in Ozeki Message Server

Installation of Database Plugins

Configuration of Database Plugins in Ozeki Message Server

Configuration of Database Connector 1 ODBC Percentage of Surveyors who agree Improve E- FTRIK system to E-FICT system with notification services is a right decision

Percentage of Surveyors who agree System hlanagement become more Systematic

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7.3 Percentage of Surveyors who agree E-FICT system enables students to check the updated news more easy and quick

7.4 _{Percentage of Surveyors who agree E-FICT}

System enables the Administrator and Students contact each other more easily

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LIST O F ABBREVIATION

NO ABBREVIATION NAME

1 UTeM

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University Technical Malaysia Malacca 2 FICT - Faculty of Information and Communication

Technology

3 E-FTMK

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E-Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi

4 , SMS

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Short Message Service

5 E-FICT

6 T E L

7 VLE

8 CSCL 9 VICES

REST ICT UNITAR OUM ODL SPeL PSM KUTKM

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_{E-Faculty of Information and Commcmication}

Technology

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Technology-Enhanced Learning - Virtual Learning Environment

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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning

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Virtual Instructional Classroom

Environment in Science

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_{Research, Education, Service} & Teaching

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lnformation Communication Technology - University Tun Abdul Razak

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Open Universit?. Malaysia

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Open and Distance Learning

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Sisrem Pengurusan e-Learning

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Projek Sarjana Muda

xix GSM SIM USB HTML TXT-2-LRN UTHM API GUI PIiP ASP ODBC OSS DBMS RDBMS PC PCMCIA GPRS M2M SE

0s

HSDPA RSS FM -+

GPS PDU TCPfIP

UTP T C P POP3 SMTP F r P

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_{Global System for Mobile Communications}

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Subscriber Identity Module

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Universal Serial Bus

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HyperText Markup Language

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Text-to-Learn

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_{Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia}

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Application Programming lnterface

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Graphical User Interface

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Hypertext Preprocessor

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Active Server Pages

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Open Database Connectivity

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Open Source Software

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Database Management Software

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Relational Database Management System - Personal Computer

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Personal Computer Memory Card

International Association

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General Packet Radio Service

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Machine-to-Machine

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Standard Edition - Operating System

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_{Higlt Speed Dowrtlink Packet Access}

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Really Simplv Syndication

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Frequency Modulation

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Global Positioning $?stem

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Protocol Data LJrtit

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Transmission Control ProtocoYlnternet Protocol

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Application Programming lnterface

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Graphical User Interface

-

Hypertext Preprocessor

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

49 CSD

50 ETSI

51 DCS

52 SDLC 53 MSN 54 DFD

55 WWW

56 ERD 57 INF 58 2NF 59 3NF

60 RAM

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Circuit Switched Data

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European Telecommunications Standards Institute

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Distributed Control System

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System Development Life Cycle

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The Microsoft Network

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Data Flow Diagram - World Wide Web

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Entity Relationship Diagram - First Normal Form

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LIST O F ATTACHMENTS

APPENDIX TITLE

A COMPARISON O F EXISTING SYSTEM

AND NEW SYSTEM

A 1 _{Comparison of existing system and new} system

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PROJECT SCHEDULE, PROJECT MILESTONE

B 1 Project schedule B2 Project milestone

SURVEY BEFORE SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED

C1 Survey Form

C2 Result of the survey

FLOW CHART

Dl Flow Chart of E-FICT Information System based on SMS

D3 Flow Chart of E-FICT Information System based on Web for Lecturer part D4 Flow Chart of E-FICT Information

System based on Web for Student part

NAVIGATION DESIGN

El Navigation Design of the system for the Administrator

E2 Navigation Design of the system for the Lecturer

E3 Navigation Design of the system for the Student

INPUT DESIGN

F 1 _{Input Design for the system}

ENTITY RELATIONAL DIAGRAM G I ERD of the system

DATA DICTIONARY

H 1 _{Data Dictionary of Logn Table}

H 2 Data Dictionary of Subject Table

H 3 Data Dictionary of Announcement ~ a M e H 4 Data Dictionary of Document Table

H 5 Data Dictionary of Assignment Table H 6 Data Dictionary of List-assignment Table H 7 Data Dictionary of Ozekimessagein Table H8 Data Dictionary of Outbox Table

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