Jurong Bird Park Information System....

Jurong Bird Park Information System

In this session, our group, AMG (which is the acronym of our names : Arinto, M. Hamidullah and Gabriel) presented our proposed Jurong Bird Park Information Sytem. Actually the objective of this system is to provide unforgettable experience for Jurong Bird Park visitor. And the main obstacle is how to communicate the information about the bird/attraction effectively to the visitor. Jurong Bird Park had installed multilingual broadcasting speaker in its monorail but it is not currently in operation since the contractor is no longer able to maintain the system...

To overcome this problem, we proposed AMG Information System for Jurong Bird Park which use bluetooth technology as the backbone of this solution. We present our solution in a use case diagram. Prof. Gilbert also mentioned this type of diagram during this session. Later I'll give you more information about use case diagram.

Refer to diagram beside, AMG provides 2 main services which called Blue-Info-Counter and Voice Recorded Information Service.

Blue-Info-Counter is a bluetooth-based solution. We plan to install many bluetooth access points in Jurong Bird Park where user with bluetooth capable cellphone can download the information through the bluetooth access point. This service is divided into several features for Jurong Bird Park visitor. Here they are:

• Location Information, this feature will inform the location of the Jurong Bird Park Visitor based on their nearest access point
• Text Information, this feature will send Jurong Bird Park Visitor with text-based information about the animal or other interesting things inside Jurong Bird Park
• Special Event Information, this feature will send information about Jurong Bird Park's special event such as Bird shows or other shows
• Video Information, visitor can download their desired information in video format, so they can stream it or store it in their cellphone
• Image Information, visitor also can download their desired information in image format, such as the image of specific bird or other species in Jurong Bird Park
• Species Locator, visitor can query location of specific species inside Jurong Bird Park, and the system will send the nearest bluetooth access point to the queried species
• Client Application, this is an application that will be installed in visitor's handphone to download the available contents inside all above features

On the other hand, AMG also provides Voice Recorded Service for visitors who don't have bluetooth-capable cellphone. In this feature, visitor can dial specific number, choose what kind of information that they want to hear and listen to them...

Wisdom of Crowd (again)...

Yup yup, and in the start and end of our presentation, Prof. Gilbert gave us suggestion to enlarge the font. Yup, at that time we made the slide using Microsoft Visio and we didn't enlarge the default font. And in when the last group finished their presentation, Prof. Gilbert combined all our ideas into several common main idea using Wisdom of Crowd concept that we learned in our previous session.

Based on our class discussion, the common main idea is by using an application that installed inside the visitor's cellphone when they enter Jurong Bird Park(JBP) for the first time. This aspect is almost similar with OCBC Bank's 2nd factor authentication using cellphone. OCBC provides option to their customer to choose what kind of 2nd factor authentication that they want. One of them is by installing an application inside customer's cellphone. Here are the snapshot.

From my perspective, this approach is quite effective since users only need little configuration to make that things work. Very practical and easy to use :D

Use Case Diagram - from requirements to features... :D

Yup as the title states, Use Case diagram is used for describing all the system's features to fulfill the requirements or objective of the system. Let's go through 3 main ingredients of use case diagram.

• Feature of the system. This features is depicted as an oval shape as shown in our example about JBP information system. We put each feature inside 1 oval shape.
  
• Actor. Then we also have other entities that interact with our system. This outside entity is called actor. In our example the actor is the visitor of JBP. Usually actor is depicted as a human shape as shown in above example.
  
• System boundary. This ingredient is depicted as large rectangle that contains all the oval shape as the feature.

Yup yup, we already cover the 3 basic ingredients of use case diagram. As I state above, use case is just a tool to depict our idea and it usually used for confirm our understanding with customer or people who give the system requirements to us. After all, use case diagram is just a tools, it still depends on our skills to produce good solution :D