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Capacity Monitoring App Abstract
Capacity Monitoring App Abstract
ECE 5480
App Description: Crowd Control
I made a very basic prototype for my Entrepreneurship class idea, Crowd Control. The app will serve
college students with a mobile crowd-gauging tool for popular campus locations, including dining halls, gyms,
and study areas. This would be achieved in three ways: quantitative display, live-feed/picture view, and social
media interaction. The quantitative view would contain crowd statistics that would be fetched from a campus
database that tracks student entry and exit. The live-feed would access cameras within locations to provide the
user with a visual of the crowd at the moment. Social media interaction would allow students to post about each
specific location. In my prototype, you will see a simple version of the quantitative view.
The launch page of my app
My prototype contains a very raw version of our hopeful quantitative view. When a location is selected,
its crowd and capacity values are provided at the top. Below that is the Crowd Stat, or percent capacity filled at
the time. Below that is a Generate Report Button, which will display a suggestion to the user based on the
Crowd Stat.
Crowd Control contains 3 activities, which are all displayed in the screenshots. Location data was
created through sqlite3. At first, I created my own database and loaded it into Eclipse. I ran into many
difficulties with that, and switched to adding the locations to the database with the Java code itself.
I hope to enhance the functionality of the app over time as there is obvious room for improvement. I will
definitely work on getting location pictures into the location list as well as generating a pie chart in the
quantitative view. Regarding data, I will attempt to utilize Parse in order to achieve social media functionality
and upgrade the current data storing tool.