Development of a mobile application for forest and land fire patrol using Prototype method

Abstract

A previous study has developed a mobile application for recording field data during Sumatra, Indonesia’s forest and land fires patrol. After users tested the usability, the user’s need for the system increased due to the new environmental characteristics in the forest and land fire patrol area. This study aims to develop a mobile application that is easy to use by the patrol team to support forest and land fire prevention patrols. The system development continues the mobile application proposed in the previous study. The system development method used is Prototyping, with stages starting from communication; quick design; rapid design modelling; prototyping; dissemination, delivery, and feedback. The application was built using the Ionic 3 framework using the REST API from the back-end module. The development was conducted in two iteration stages, namely the third and fourth iterations. The third and fourth iterations resulted in changes in the user interface, added auto-fill features, and downloaded reports. Applications developed in each iteration were tested using the Black-Box method. The test results from each iteration show that all functions in the application work properly and meet the user requirements.