NOTEPHONES SYSTEM
Author : Allen Mwangonde
Supervisor : Prof. Isabel M. Venter
Co-Supervisor: Dr .B. Tucker
OVERVIEW
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Brief description of the project
Implementation
Progress
Challenges
Tools and language used
Demo
References
Questions & answers
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
• What is the NotePhones system?
 A mobile application that will track and
remind members of meeting events
before they occur
 Display meeting schedules, minutes or
regularly scheduled events
 Allow participants to make the
necessary preparations for the meeting
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IMPLEMENTATION
It consists of two applications
1. Mobile app – allows sending SMS through a gateway
to the server
2. Application on server receives SMS from the
gateway and updates the database
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Application on server sends SMS through the
gateway to mobile phone
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IMPLEMENTATION CONT…
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PROGRESS
Changes made to previous prototype
Changes to interface
Sending minutes via gateway
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PROGRESS CONT…
Accomplished (with an emulator)
 Create new agenda
 Update the agenda
 Create minutes
and all of these are then updated on the
database
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WORK IN PROGRESS
• Actual implementation on a cell phone
• So far could not implement the gateway
successfully
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CHALLENGES
• Identifying the correct cell phone
• Configuring the SMS gateway (not yet
done)
• Installing the application on the cellphone
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TOOLS USED
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MySQL, Apache
VB.Net
Notepad++ editor
Ozeking - SMS Gateway
A PC and Nokia E 710 mobile phone
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Demo
Link to the demo:
Create agenda
Update agenda
View minutes
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Project Plan
TERM
Term 1 Project Analysis
DATE OF
SUBMISSION
SUBMITTED
2012/03/30
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Term 2
Project Design and Development
 UIS document
 OOA document
 OOD document
 Presentation two
2012/05/30
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Term 3
Project Implementation
2012/09/10
YES
Term 4
Project Testing, Evaluation and
Presentation
2012/11/02
NO
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References
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Glossary of Terms, ITU-infoDev ICT Regulation Toolkit. (2010).
http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/Glossary.
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Chao, L. (2010). HTC to Sell Branded Smartphones in Mainland Push. The Wall Street
Journal.
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Landay, J. A. (1999). Making sharing pervasive: Ubiquitous computing for shared note taking.
IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Vol.38(No.4).
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Luz, M.-M. B. (2006). Meeting browsing.
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Mahangu, A. (2010). Minutes Management System. University of the Western Cape, Computer
Science Department. Unpublished Honours Project.
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Marc, P. (2001). Digital Natives Digital Immigrants. Vol. 9(No. 5).
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UCT. (2009, july 29). UCT centre in ICT4D. Retrieved from UCT centre in ICT4D:
http://www.ict4d.cs.uct.ac.za/
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Zuckerman, E. (2010). Decentralizing the Mobile Phone:A Second ICT4D Revolution?
Retrieved from http://itidjournal.org/itid/article/viewFile/631/271
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Questions & answers
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