Equipment Management System (EqMS): Information visualization system perspectives

Abstract

Equipment Management System (EqMS) is a system that focuses on managing equipments as per demanded by events taking place on a local wetland eco-tourism park. The park covers approximately 3100 hectare of land. This 3100 hectare land is divided into 3 main regions; recreation, education and research. Equipments at the park range from tents, water pumps, yachts, lawn machines and many more. Management at the park face difficulty in monitoring the movement of the equipments which are used at different parts of the regions and at different time. Manual monitoring of the equipments' movements involves recording on paper files. This method hampers the making of decisions about possible future equipment usage when new events are to take place. Due to the vastness of the park, problem of locating the equipment upon end of event poses yet another challenge to the park management. Both of the problems could be easily overcame if the park personnel remembers the event that took place, the equipment that was used and the location that was chosen. The goal of this study is to develop an information system based on the principles of information visualization. Spatial data is used to store location-wise data. Future work of EqMS involves real-time linking with Google Map.