1. AN ALTERNATIVE BIO- SPECIMEN BARCODE INITIATOR, READER AND UPDATER APPLICATION By Toluwaleke Ademuyiwa Supervisor : Prof. Venter Co-supervisor : Prof. Christoffels

2. Overview Brief recap Progress Challenges Tools Future plan References Demo

3. What the application does?  Bio-specimen are small samples of material, such as urine, blood and DNA, it may be from human, animals or plants.  The application will be used by researcher at various site.  Allow user on site to scan the barcode on a bio-specimen tube and send the details to the server.  Provides input data for the laboratory information management system for (SANBI).

4. Progress Changes to interface

5. Improvement on the scanning format The scanning procedure is more effective after implementation of QR code

6. Challenges The accomplishment of updating of the data to the server.

7. Challenges(Retrieving from database) Retrieving information from database, using Android device.

8. Tools Eclipse Juno Android SDK Android Mobile Device MySQL and PHP

9. Faulty test-tube discarded Samplecollected Data sent todatabase Record data Scanbarcode

10. Project plan Term 4 project plan Project Testing and Evaluation Receive feedback from researchers, make necessary modification. Create test strategy Research different more on how to improve the application Document Findings Improve data retrieval from database Test all changes made to application Finalize Project documentation Create user manual Final Presentation

11. REFERENCES [1]. Ravi Tamada.Androidhive. How to connect Android with PHP, MySQL. http://www.androidhive.info/page 5 [2] Newboston, Bucky Roberts, Android Development. The New Boston Education. http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php, 2010.

12. Demo It will show how the user will scan the barcode. The user entering the necessary information. It will also show how the information will be stored.

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