Web Based Zoo Management System for National Zoological Garden

Abstract

The Department of National Zoological Gardens is the one of the finest and largest zoo in Asia which plays an important role in the Sri Lankan to protect animals. John Hagenbeck, who initially started the Dehiwala Zoo, belongs to a family engaged in animal circuses. He collected and kept the animals in this premises for trade. Mr. Hagenbeck exported wild animals to Europe to his brother Carl Hagenbeck who was one of the biggest animal dealers in Europe at that time. To hold the animals before exporting them to Europe he bought 05 acres of land at Dehiwala at the beginning of the century. This became quite popular among the residents of the area. The total area of the collection center was increased to 11 acres to hold the animals received. Subsequently the center was taken over by the government in 1936. The extent of the land was increased gradually to present status of 24 acres. The Web Based Zoo Management System is to overcome some of the problems and of the current manual system. This solution is built in a way to cover the overall administration processes of the zoo, It is also responsible on keeping records of animals on their behavioral patterns including mating, new births, deaths, new arrivals, enclosure relocations, mixing of animal species etc. There for it?s very important to keep records for the all animals inside the zoo. Presently all the above functionalities are done manually. To overcome this problem proposed online Zoo Management system covers most of their day today important functionalities. The Zoo Management System has been developed according to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework which support object orientation and iterative development. The system has adapted Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and Object Oriented techniques. Unified Modeling Language (UML) was used for analysis and design. In addition, Enterprise.Architect.Corporate.Edition.v7.5.850 was used to draw the UML diagrams The web application is implementing using Visual Studio 2010 as the IDE and My SQL is used as the database server. Coding was done using the ASP.net and C# programming language and with the .NET framework. DevExpress Reporting tool was used for report generation.