CENSUS AUTOMATION

Basavaraj Naragund #1, Shivamurthi Marikatti #2,

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8th semester, Computer Science, BVBCET,
Vidyanagar, Hubli.
1basubvbcet@gmail.com
2 shivam.2008i@gmail.com

Abstract:
For any country, it’s an important issue to keep
track of the economic status of an individual within the
country. In India, the means used to do the same, is
Surveying every individual throughout the country, which
is economically termed as “Census”. Currently Census is
performed manually once in a decade, due to which
Surveyors are trained and given enough time to collect
During analysis, there are heavy consequences faced for
any of the minor mistakes committed by a surveyor or
anyone during the process, such as missing of a form,
incorrectly filled forms etc.
Census Automation is a mobile application used
to automate the existing surveying process by making it
portable. Forms are default loaded in Mobile which is
later filled by the surveyor. Data gathered from different
regions is filtered, structured and stored in server
Database. Administrator has access to the data &
manipulates it by generating Statistical Reports
2. SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
The product Software developed can be
primarily categorized into 2 parts namely, Client side
& Server side.
Client: The Client always possesses a
mobile device such a cell phone or a Smartphone for
the working environment. A form is loaded in the
mobile by default, which resembles the same Census
form being utilized currently as in fig 2.
Server: The server is an always running
machine which accepts forms and makes appropriate
insertions into the database. Upon the requested type
of information by the Admin, specific data fetch are
executed and the results are made available to the
Administrator.

The project also has a great commitment

towards Social Relevance as it reduces paper work and
thereby playing key role in saving Trees (which are cut to
manufacture paper).

1. INTRODUCTION

Census Automation is a mobile application

being developed to automate the existing surveying
process using Mobile as portable device. The user
forms are loaded in every mobile under execution.
The surveyor will be filling the form with all the
necessary details of the individual and submit it to the
server after a successful validation. The Server
extracts the data from these forms & stores in the
Database. Crucial Data is provided access only to the
Administrator.

The above diagram shows the overall

working of the Census Automation system. It depicts
the client at he left side possesing a device and
submits the form over the network. Server at the
other side recieves the forms and makes insertions
into the databases for further manipulation.
Following figures elaborate the system.
Client side Interface.
Fig 2. The Client side Form
The above diagram represents the
transformation of the actual census form into a
fledged J2ME form.
The above code generates a login Form, a
commonly filled Login form (filled only once) and
lastly the personal details Form. All forms are
validated before any proceedings to either next form
or anterior to submission.
Intermediate.
Fig 3. Successful submission of data.
After the validation check returns success,
the final step is to submit the respective form to the
server as shown above.
Server side.
Fig 4. Administrator managing at server side.
Administrator is the one who is working at
the server side and performing various operations on
the information collected. The operations allowed for
the administrator to perform could be:
 View received forms,
 Generate necessary reports,
 Produce statistical reports at times,
 Generate UID list etc etc.
 3. WORKING
Fig 5. Application layout in real world.
The Deployment diagram shows the way in
which the implementation of the Application should
be made in the real world. The clients are the
surveyors working in the allotted region/blocks with
their respective mobile devices. The form is validated
and is submitted to the server.
On the other end the server process extracts
the necessary data details by making appropriate
database queries to the MySQL- PHP connection.
The fetched data is organized, structured and is
presented as requested by the Administrator.
4. APPLICATIONS
Surveying: The Application can be employed
wherever there is a need to collect details or info of
any entity.
Automation: if the current process is tedious or the
employees are tiresome, application can be applied.
5. ADVANTAGES
Portability- Mobiles are very much commonly being
utilized nowadays, the usage of mobile device such
as any java enabled phone and Smartphone etc
provides portability.
Reduction of data inaccuracy- The manual errors
committed by surveyors during the process lead to
vital consequences, hence accuracy is taken are in our
application. It implicitly saves time needed for
rework due to any mistake.
Increased efficiency- The efficiency provided by
current gadgets are trustable and comparatively more
efficient too. So it is added advantage for the
Application.
Less time consumption- The currently employed
manual process takes much more time for the Census
data to reach the government officials after being
submitted by Surveyors. This application will
considerably minimize the time consumed and also
maintaining data integrity.
6. CONSTRAINTS
• Only textual info: We are incurring only the
personal details which are most textual such as
name, DOB, education, profession, address etc
of any individual in consideration during the
execution.
• Conventional security: The built in security
policy provided by GSM is only employed.
7. FUTURE SCOPE
There are much more enhancements to be
done by the Govt of India in the upcoming future
which is in need of other unique details apart from
the textual info, such as unique id, signature, photo
etc. since we are deploying in any mobile which is
Java enabled for the execution of the application.
The application can be extended by making
it to execute like to take photos, obtaining thumb
expressions, signatures, unique id like retina or image
of face for ACK and for better precision. One more
important enhancement we can add is that: we can
make it as “multilingual”.
8. CONCLUSION
The current trend of performing census
throughout the country, particularly considering a
village/town is so clumsy and time consuming that
the surveyors are tired out in collecting info details of
every individual assigned to him/her. There are also [4]Bharatada Janaganati 2011. Sankshipta
some inaccuracies, errors and delay of maneganati parikshisalu mattu kutumbada
accomplishment at the destination (head office of anusuchiyannu bharati maadalu suchanegala kaipidi
census). (read it in kannada).

The proposed system is an automation of the [5]Rashtriya Janasankya Register(NPR). Rashtriya

manual process described above with additional janasankya register anusuchiyannu bharati maadalu
overcomes and characteristics. Data deployed at the suchanegala kaipidi (read it in kannada)
head office is accurate and is delivered with little or
no delay of time. The automation surely increases the
efficiency comparatively and makes the surveyors
feel comfortable during their work.

The project also has a great commitment

towards Social Relevance as it reduces paper work
and thereby playing key role in saving Trees (which
are cut to manufacturing paper forms).

REFERENCES

Web References

[1]http://mobileactive.org/howtos/mobile-phones-
data-collection

[2]http://www.kleward.com/j2me_application_develp
omwnt.htm#a

[3]http://ramp.virtualmobiletech.com

[4]https://www.iobnet.mobi/customer/.../IOB-J2ME
%20Setup%20V1.0.pdf

People Concerned

[1]Municipal Corporation of Dharwad, Karnataka.

[2]People who have worked as surveyors

Textbook References

[1]The Complete Reference J2ME, Tata McGraw-

Hill Edition 2003, James Keogh.

[2]Programming Wireless Devices With the JAVA2

platform, 2nd Edition, Roger Riggs, Antero
Taivalsaari.

[3]Bharatada Janaganati2011. Manepatti mattu

maneganati anusuchi bharati maadalu suchanegala
kaipidi (read it in kannada).