The implementation of mobile GIS for fire hydrant mapping

The current traditional system of paper documents adopted by Fire Department had lead to the inability of the fire fighters to locate usable and functioning hydrants in an efficient and effective manner which can jeopardize any rescue mission. Hence, there is a need to revised the Fire Department current system and develop a new system that is much more easier, portable and also time and cost effective in locating the fire hydrants. The aim of this study is to design and develop a fire hydrant information system for fire hydrant mapping and maintenance using mobile GIS. The system combines GeoJot+ mobile data collection apps, Dropbox, and Mangomap where GeoJot+ apps is used as a mobile data collector, Dropbox as online data storage and creating web based mapping using Mangomap. The final product will contain, there are two main functions of this system which are to locate, view and map fire hydrants and its related information to assist fire fighters during inspection, maintenances and emergency cases and to display fire hydrants information to public to facilitates them in identifying the location and codes of the hydrants that are found to be in poor condition and assists them to inform Fire Department through “TemanPiliBomba” application.