Mobile Plant Tagging System for Urban Forest Eco-Tourism Using QR Code
Iskandar Ishak, Fatimah Sidi, Lilly Suriani Affendey, Nor Fazlida Mohd Sani, Amir Syamimi Hamzah, Paiman Bawon · 2013
The transformation of mobile devices from being a communication devices to be important information resources has changed the way of how activities being implemented including in tourism industry. This is very important for the tourists especially when they visit remote location such as forests. For these tourists, information regarding plants is very important to them and most of the time the tour guides or books will be their source of references. The traditional way of forest tourism lacks the facility for these tourists to obtain information regarding the plants. This paper proposes a system that uses QR codes as tag for tagging the plants that can be scanned by tourists to get further information of the plants. Through this system the visitors only need to use their mobile devices to scan on the plant tag to get its information on their devices. The QR codes used representing the plant ID. Based on these QR codes, the application will query a remote database and retrieved the information of the scanned plant and will be displayed in the visitor's mobile devices. Using this system, tourists can get accurate information regarding the plants in the forest through their devices. Also, through this system, they can get information during their visit in the forest quickly without having to depend on tour guides or reference books.