Design and Implementation of Mobile Application For Waste Management
Chapter One
AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of this project is to design a mobile waste application
The objective of this project is to create
- A modular and adaptable application
- An information system that keeps track of waste records of different localities
Another objective of this research work is to create an application that if properly used and maintained, will minimize the environmental and health impact of waste.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Waste management or waste disposal are all the activities and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. This includes amongst other things collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste together with monitoring and regulation. It also encompasses the legal and regulatory framework that relates to waste management encompassing guidance on recycling.
Waste can take any form that is solid, liquid, or gas and each have different methods of disposal and management. Waste management normally deals with all types of waste whether it was created in forms that are industrial, biological, household, and special cases where it may pose a threat to human health. It is produced due to human activity such as when factories extract and process raw materials. Waste management is intended to reduce adverse effects of waste on health, the environment or aesthetics.
Waste management practices are not uniform among countries (developed and developing nations); regions (urban and rural areas), and sectors (residential and industrial).
A large portion of waste management practices deal with municipal solid waste (MSW) which is the bulk of the waste that is created by household, industrial, and commercial activity
NEED OF A WASTE MANAGEMENT
The necessity for Waste Management cannot be over emphasized especially in modern society but it has existed for millenniums. In “Waste Management” Bilitewski et al. (1994) reports that from 9.000 to 8.000 B.C. people learnt to dispose of their waste outside their own settlement to avoid odor, wild animals and nuisances of vermin (NIMBY SYNDROME). Waste management is nowadays far more complex than it was some thousand years ago. The complexity arises not only because of the huge quantities of residuals produced by the modern society, but also because of differences in the composition of the waste. Presently various municipalities fail to supply adequate waste management service to their communities (Godfrey, 2006).
This is shown by the increase in uncollected waste in high density suburbs. In various places liter is scattered and also waste accumulates in non-designated places. One of the main causes of poor service in most of the municipalities is lack of proper planning although staff, equipment and poor access to certain places are also given as reasons (Godfrey, 2006). The United Nations Development Program survey of 151 mayors during the International Colloquium, in 1997, identified insufficient solid waste collection and disposal to be among the five (5) most severe problems in cities worldwide (UNSD, 1999).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, various sources of data collection methods and analysis of the current and the proposed system are discussed and the research methodology.
Research methodology talks about the procedure, method or approach adopted. In other to attain quiet a reasonable acceptance of the research work, we made use of the internationally accepted software engineering model, which is Waterfall Model
This strategy is often referred to a process model or a software-developing paradigm.
The steps of waterfall model are:
- Requirement Definition
- System and Software Design
- Implementation
- Integration
- Operation and Maintenance
ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM
OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM
METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
There exist various methods of gathering facts about a situation. This includes interview, questionnaire, record inspection and observation. Each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages. For the purpose of this study, the following facts finding methods are employed for data collection:-
OBSERVATION: Observation method provides firsthand information about the system. It involves systematically watching the operations, procedures and personnel of the school over a period of time and recording things as they happen. I employed this method as I observed how activities were been done within the school.
CHAPTER FOUR
SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION
INTRODUCTION
System testing and implementation is the last step in software development. It involves a process of putting into action, a formulated plan. Before implementation, plans must have been completed and objectives must be clear.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
SUMMARY
This paper presents mobile app for waste management. It starts by outlining mobile and apps statistics that document the existence of the new mobile universe as a permanent layer of the human activities. Then the importance of mobile governance is emphasized and few selected projects are presented in order to demonstrate the different aspects. Following, the importance of mobile apps in the waste management sector and categorizes their potential uses according to two different dimensions,. Examples of already existed waste management apps are also provided.
CONCLUSION
The paper’s conclusion draws readers’ attention for both the content and the format of the mobile apps required for recycling and waste prevention. According to the finding, there is a huge room for the adoption of recycling habits that are facilitated through mobile apps which different stakeholders can easily use. There is also a huge unexploited potential to improve the systemic behavior of waste management systems by using appropriate apps. Moreover, there is an urgent need to create a plethora of apps, globally useful and/or locally adapted, that will allow mobile phones to be enablers or gateways for high rates of recycling performance and sustainable waste management.
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