PC 212 QUANTITAIVE METHODS [MODELING &

SIMULATION]

A Research Paper
Presented to the faculty of the
Cebu Technological University
Naga Extension Campus City, Philippines

Advanced Application Locator for Public Comfort Room

BSIT II-2 EVE

Abalo, Amy
Bernabe, Charish
Del Pilar, Kiano
Estopa, Mark Anthony
Zozobrado, Genard Rey
 Title: Advanced Application Locator for Public Comfort Room

Introduction

Public restrooms are an important part of any community, not just in public places, malls, or any
establishment, but also along roads. Because everyone who leaves their house will require the use of a
restroom. Many people have a mental map of what bathrooms they can use along their regular route.
Finding a toilet is indeed a problem, especially for women. Suppressing the urge to defecate can be
detrimental to one’s body, according to medical guidelines. But people across the country, especially
women, face this trouble on a daily basis. (Saleem, M., Burdett, T. & Heaslip, V. Health and social
impacts of open defecation on women: a systematic review. BMC Public Health 19, 158 (2019)
This is the field of study that is the simplest and most effective in finding restrooms in unfamiliar places or
in places that have few public restrooms. You do not want to crouch behind a tree to respond when "nature
calls." However, the lack of public restrooms is a fundamental problem in even the most developed cities
and villages. And the problem is disproportionately more urgent for people who use public restrooms daily.
The unemployed or homeless, senior citizens, women who are pregnant, and new mothers. Few people will
have a comprehensive mental map of all the places they could pee in their neighborhood. And even the
ones that do exist are frequently inaccessible to those who have specific limitations. According to UNICEF
(2020), the top three regions in the Philippines with the highest percentage of families with no toilet
facilities or still practicing open defecation were BARMM (16.1 percent), Bicol (11.5 percent), and Eastern
Visayas (8.9 percent). In regards to the fact that certain places have only a few public restrooms, this
research can help people locate public restrooms near their places. People who don’t know anything about
the city will find it difficult to look for good washrooms in that city. There are people who are comfortable
being in places where they know they can find public facilities. They stroll, window shop, and linger in
commercial districts. In addition, this application will help to search nearest washrooms easily while
traveling in different cities with the help of GPS. This will also help those who need to go almost hourly -
these people may have normal conditions young age, old age, females who are pregnant or menstruating –
or medical conditions. Second, there are those whose need for a toilet comes urgently, suddenly, and without
warning. These include most people with chronic conditions such as Crohn’s disease and colitis as well as
those temporarily afflicted with foodborne illnesses. Third, are people with mobility impairments for whom
physically getting to and using a restroom just takes time and effort (“plush// public hygiene let us stay
human”. (plush.pl app's home page, you can choose two options: app's home page, you can choose two
options:og). January 2020). Furthermore, we also have common issues in every city due to a lack of
knowledge about where to find public restrooms. To find a solution to this problem, you may use the
application. The application will tell you where the public restrooms are located, and it will also notify you
in your application if a certain restroom is available or not. In addition, the application will also tell you
how many toilets are available in a certain public restroom. First, we create this app by using programming
code then if you open this app, it will ask your permission to allow in opening your location service. Second,
on the home page of the app, you can choose two options quick find and mark toilet. If you click quick find,
it will automatically find the nearest available toilet and shows the location of the toilet on one map, and if
you

click mark toilet, it can add toilets that you think that are going to help others also can add pictures of the
toilet and write a comment. Third, you can also know if the toilet is available on the map because we put a
sensor in every toilet, we called it “Magic Eye” this sensor is connected to the app, and you use it by waving
your hands in front of the sensor to flush and it will automatically notify in the app that the toilet is available.

This app makes finding a washroom a little easier, and gives you more confidence when traveling, running
errands, or socializing with friends and family. In addition, the application will also tell you how many
toilets are available in a certain public restroom. This application will assist you by providing information
about step-by-step turns and provide you with precise locations. We were able to find thanks to step-by-
step instructions washrooms quickly and without difficulty.

Purpose of the Study - The purpose of the researchers in conducting this study was to create an advanced
app that can help people who are not familiar with the place, travelers, and tourists. The app will find nearby
comfortable rooms and search for comfortable rooms in a place that will be visited by the user. To know
how many comfort rooms are in that place. The app uses the user’s current location through the help of
google maps and finds the nearest bidet with directions.

FRAMEWORK
The framework method of this research can be seen in Fig.1.
Statement of the Problem:
The purpose of this study is to look into how this application can help people who are
having difficulty finding a nearby restroom.

Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:

1. How this application can make finding a restroom easier for people?

2. What are the best feature that would encourage people use this application

3. What are the interesting features that will meet the expectations and could highly satisfy
the user ?

4. Is there a significant difference of this application to the other existing applications

5.