Design and Development of Smart Asset Handphone Scanner Application

Abstract

Web-based Asset Management System is a centralized asset
recording system practiced by many institutions. However, this
system does not have smart features in line with the development of
smartphone technology, such as bar code scanning, direct contact to
asset owners, and fast asset tracking. Furthermore, this system is
also not suitable for the use of small-sized smartphone displays.
Therefore, Smart Asset Handphone Scanner (SAHS) Application was
proposed and developed as an innovation project for helping asset
coordinator and workshop/laboratory supervisor to perform asset
tracking with ease. SAHS Application has its own database, and this
application is developed using Google Appsheet and Google
spreadsheet. This application is secured with google security and all
the users have been validated. As a result, the smart asset handphone
scanner can increase the efficiency of asset inspection process,
inspection reporting process, asset monitoring process, and asset
tracking. On the other hand, this scanner is also able to increase the
clarity and visibility of asset status report with interactive graphs
and symbol displays, and minimal cost of the application
development and data maintenance. Smart asset handphone scanner
also is a smart phone-based application without involve the
purchase of additional equipment. This application can be used in
offline or online mode. The results of the study show that the
developed innovation scanner application can help asset
coordinators and workshop/laboratory supervisors to manage and
track all assets in the workshop or laboratory in a good and orderly
manner. The contribution of this study is this application could also
be used by all staff to track the details of all assets and indirectly to
nurture the culture of taking good care of assets become the
responsibility of all staffs