Monitoring System for Disaster Prone Areas of Iligan City

An Undergraduate Thesis

Presented to the Faculty of College of Computer Studies Iligan Medical Center College

In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

By:

Edwin L. Hugo Jr. Felizardo A. Acopio Jr. Abdul Khalid V. Mambuay Gerald S. Mariano Frevwrich Earl R. Lozano Mikhel S. Barrato

March 2012

Chapter l

PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

1.1 Background of the Study

The world today is facing a wide and various disasters, natural disasters and man-made disasters. And they saw how hard to face of natural disasters or acts of man. People need to think of how they can manage to solve and prevent damage caused by harmful attacks. That every people in the world are facing, one of the most problems that can lead to poverty.

The government is making their way to solve the problems by helping people to be prepare and aware and know on what to do when disasters occur and having some recovery programs.

That is why; the researchers aims to help the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) to develop a system that will help make their job fast, easy and accurate by using the system itself. Through this system the user will easily monitor if the area is prone for disaster and monitor of what kind of disaster does the area is possible to be encountered. The City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) can easily provide the safe area and to relocate the people who are in affected area.

The history used in the system as the references of the damages and losses of a disaster. Where you can search, the information of the total damage that made by the disaster. People who died, survive, and missing can be seen in the history and more important thing that made by the disaster. In short history is holding the most important details that show the total information of the disasters damages.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Based from thorough investigation, researchers found out problems of the existing system of monitoring for disaster prone area. Some of these problems are: No computerized monitoring system for disaster prone area No current history disaster of a particular area Unknown of how many calamities in a particular area Incomplete information of the disasters damages.

1.3 Objectives of the Study

After knowing the specific problems involved upon dealing the monitoring system for disaster prone area in City Planning and Development Office (CPDO). Researchers aim to develop a computerized monitoring system that provides the following: Computerized monitoring system for disaster prone area

Publicized a current history disaster of a particular area Publicized of how many calamities in a particular are To reveal the complete information and damages made by disaster

1.4 Significance of the Study

The implementation of this project study would significantly provide the solutions and services of the monitoring system for disaster prone area of Iligan City. Head of (CPDO) - This study will help the head of City planning and development office to monitor the disaster prone area fast, easy, and accurate. Staff of (CPDO) - This study will help the staff of City planning and development office to publicized the current history disaster of a particular area through the system itself. Future researchers - This study will help the future researchers publicized of how many calamities in a particular area so that it will be easy for them to be prepared.

1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study

This study will mainly focus on the monitoring system for disaster prone area of Philippines in Iligan City and complete information made by the disaster. The system will be able to add new inputs, edit, update, verify existing records, generate reports, and keep records through database and secure all data through a log-in security system. The system will be able to monitor the prone disaster area so that it will be easy for the user to secure and assist.

This study limits only on the monitoring system for disaster prone area of Philippines in Iligan City and reveal complete information of the disasters damages. Any of the Cities in the Philippines are not included of this study.

1.6 Conceptual Framework

Shown below is a conceptual framework of the system wherein barangay details, disaster details, and disaster history details will be entered into the system. In the system, this information will be stored until further updates and will generate different list such us barangay list, disaster list, disaster history list, and barangay assessment.

Fig. 1 conceptual Framework

1.7 Glossary of Terms

Disaster - A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. System is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole or a set of elements (often called components) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.

Natural Disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of or effecting the Earth, for example floods, tsunami, tornadoes, hurricanes and cyclones, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, heat waves and droughts, wild fires, landslides, blizzards, ice storms and avalanches. Anthropogenic hazards or man-made hazards - can come to fruition in the form of a man-made disaster. In this case, "anthropogenic" means threats having an element of human intent, negligence, or error; or involving a failure of a man-made system. Diagram -

is a two two-dimensional geometric symbolic representation of information according

to some visualization technique.

Conceptual Framework -

is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a

preferred approach to an idea or thought.

Entity-Relationship Diagram - is

an abstract way to describe a database.

Chapter ll

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

2.1 Disaster Monitoring System

A fire disaster monitoring system of the present invention has a control unit and a fire sensor. The fire sensor includes a sensor base and a sensor body. The sensor base incorporates a first memory which stores first address information of the first memory. The sensor body incorporates a second memory and a CPU therein. The second memory stores second address information of the sensor body. The CPU includes an address reader, a comparator and an address generator. When the power is turned on, the address reader reads the address information in the first memory, and reads the address information in the second memory. The comparator compares the read pieces of address information with each other. When the comparison result by the comparator indicates agreement, the address generator leaves the address information in the second memory as valid data. On the other hand, when the comparison result indicates disagreement, the address generator writes the address information in the first memory into the second memory.

(http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0706158.html)

2.2 Philippine Disaster Management System

The system is aiming itself to manage more security and assurance to be more prepared in any case of disaster that the country will be encountering. Philippine disaster management system is much more focused as the number one problem on how the country can manage the Natural disaster that is more dangerous than the threat of terrorism. Strengthening the Philippine disaster control capability and establishing the national program on community disaster preparedness. Through this, the National Coordinating Council is setting a highest policy making, coordinating and supervising body at the national level for disaster management in the country. They also recommend to the President the declaration of state of calamity and release the national calamity fund as needed. Disaster risk management is a systematic process of using administrative decisions, organization, operational skills and capacity to implement policies, strategies and coping capacities of the society and communities to lessen the impact of natural hazards and related environmental and technological disasters.

(http://www.adrc.asia/aboutus/vrdata/countryreport/josefina2009_cr.pdf)

2.3 Disaster Management Systems

The system is implementing on saving lives through aggressive field management. Through this, disaster solutions helping responders organize, identify, and manage incidents involving multiple patients, disaster and mass casualty incidents in and outside the hospital. They also sell products which are very useful tool to manage an operation to be easier and more secure. In a way of using their products solution on preventing and in actual performing, training videos are also uploaded to make the products understandable.

(http://www.triagetags.com/)

2.4 Disaster Risk Management Working Concept

To manage risk of natural disaster, they aim to enhance and develop opposite damage of natural disaster. Through service package for disaster risk management it has identified five activities areas for cooperation in risk assessment, disaster prevention and mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster risk management as part of rehabilitation and reconstruction, and mainstreaming disaster risk management in development cooperation sectors. They also aim to make ways and control the top problems of the world where no one can stop. But through prevention and preparedness it can minimize the damage that caused by natural disaster. It will teach people to be more aware and prepared to what they are going to do in the time that they face disastrous calamities.

(http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/02-5001.pdf)

Chapter lll

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, it presents on how the researchers, gathered information to develop the study. By doing this part of the study, the researchers also identified the following information needed to pursue the following procedures: Requirements Analysis, Design, Construction and Testing.

3.1 Requirement Analysis

The requirement analysis phase is the part of understanding of the process involved in the

monitoring system for disaster prone area. It help the researchers gather information through
conducted interviews to identify what things are needed to put in the

monitoring system for disaster

prone area, as well as its problems. This also helps the researchers of the process needed, its scope and
limitations. Modelling the system will be done using Entity-Relationship-Diagram (ERD), Context Model, Deployment, Activity Diagram, and Use case. Case tools will be used to enhance and speed up the modelling of the system.

3.2 Design

In the design phase, the researchers have to identify the problems, its scopes and find a better solution. The researchers have to define the purpose and the content in developing a system. A database which consists of graphical user interface and a server will be developed. With the help of the ERD the researchers will be able to analyze the possible design for the study and its processes.

3.3 Construction and Testing

With Visual Basic 6 as the programming language, the system will be constructed and will be tested as part of development system. This will be linked to MYSQL, database where the information will be accessibly stored, updated and retrieved.

3.4 Hardware and Software Requirements

These are the hardware and software requirements required to fully implement the

monitoring

system for disaster prone area of Iligan City.

Hardware Server Processor Memory Input/output Devices Storage Table 1. Hardware Requirements

Name Dual-core processor or higher 4Gb or higher Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, 500Gb Hard Drive 500 GB Hard disk

Software Operating System DBMS Programming Language Table 2. Software Requirements

Name Windows 7 Ultimate MySQL 5.1.45 Visual Basic 6.0

3.5 Context Model

The Context model represented below shows the required input data and the expected output data of the system and to understand on how the system interacts by receiving and sending data to external entities.

Fig. 2 Context Model

3.5 Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)

ERD represented below shows the use on how to identify the entities and attributes of the system. Determine the relationship between these entities of the system.

Fig. 3 Entity-Relationship Diagram

3.6 Class Diagram

Class Diagram presented below shows the structure and flow of the system using the systems classes, their attributes, and the relationships between the classes.

Fig. 4 Class Diagram

3.7 Use Case Diagram

Use case diagram presented below shows the technique for capturing functional requirements of the system. It describes the task or a series of task that the head and staff of the City Planning of Development Office needs to accomplished.

Fig. 5 Use Case Diagram

3.8 Activity Diagram

Activity diagram presented below shows a graphical illustration to what happens with the workflow of the system. What the system can be done in parallel and whether there are alternative paths through the workflow of the system.

Fig. 6 Head of (CPDO) Activity Diagram

Fig. 7 Staff of (CPDO) Activity Diagram

3.9 Deployment Diagram

Deployment diagram presented below show the illustration of what hardware components exist, what computer components run on each node and how different pieces are connected of the system.

Fig. 8 Deployment Diagram