Renovate-It: A geo-based technical professional hiring system for repairing and maintenance services

Abstract

Due to rapid advancements in technology, the smart phones are proved to be an imperative source of communication and now have become an integral part of our daily lives. In Pakistan, people are facing problems in finding and hiring local technical professionals to avail repairing and maintenance services for their homes and offices. Because of unavailability of such type of system, new workers are also facing dilemma of finding appropriate work in their vicinity. To overcome this problem, it's immensely important to design and develop a platform in order to bridge the communication gap between the technical workers and end-users which can provide an easy and understandable interface for both using the current trends of technology. To get the best of smart phones, this work proposes an android application for android smart phones with the name Renovate-It and a website. Renovate-It can be a great start in this context in Pakistan. It is an android app that can communicate with the user and experts possessing different technical skills. It contains Google Map and its features like navigation and current location to achieve geo-based searching and hiring. Users are allowed to see all the selected group of workers on Google Map with the help of markers. The app currently has only four categories of experts i.e. Decorators, Electricians, Mechanics, Plumbers but it is expandable.