Design of Online Application for Agricultural Machinery Service based on Android Operating System

Abstract

Utilization of agricultural machinery recently becoming big issue to increase agriculture production in Indonesia. In these couple years Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture massively granted agricultural machineries to the farmers for increasing rice production. Considering that farmer’s paddy field are scattered in villages area, it can be happening that agricultural machinery in one village may overutilize where the other still underutilize. The objective of this research is to design an online application for agricultural machinery service for optimizing the utilization of agricultural machinery. The application was developed under Android operating system which is commonly used for mobile phone. The method of this research was following System Development Life Cycle which include investigation, system analysis, design, implementation, installation and testing steps. There are three sub systems in this application i.e. system for operator, machinery provider and machinery user. The application contains several functions such as machinery data management, order management and machinery services scheduling. In the user application, detail data such as field location, type of machinery, order time, and supporting map of the location can be input and read by the machinery provider easily. The application was tested under several Android operating systems and the results showed that the application can run satisfactorily.