The document is a project proposal for developing an app called MAUSAM to provide weather reports and alerts in Nepal. It discusses how existing weather apps work, but are not very useful for users in Nepal. The objectives are to provide weather forecasts, generate past weather reports, and alert users about drastic climate changes. The methodology section discusses reviewing existing weather reporting systems and literature on weather forecasting challenges. The goal is to create an easy to use app that provides beneficial weather information for Nepali users.
The document is a project proposal for developing an app called MAUSAM to provide weather reports and alerts in Nepal. It discusses how existing weather apps work, but are not very useful for users in Nepal. The objectives are to provide weather forecasts, generate past weather reports, and alert users about drastic climate changes. The methodology section discusses reviewing existing weather reporting systems and literature on weather forecasting challenges. The goal is to create an easy to use app that provides beneficial weather information for Nepali users.
The document is a project proposal for developing an app called MAUSAM to provide weather reports and alerts in Nepal. It discusses how existing weather apps work, but are not very useful for users in Nepal. The objectives are to provide weather forecasts, generate past weather reports, and alert users about drastic climate changes. The methodology section discusses reviewing existing weather reporting systems and literature on weather forecasting challenges. The goal is to create an easy to use app that provides beneficial weather information for Nepali users.
The document is a project proposal for developing an app called MAUSAM to provide weather reports and alerts in Nepal. It discusses how existing weather apps work, but are not very useful for users in Nepal. The objectives are to provide weather forecasts, generate past weather reports, and alert users about drastic climate changes. The methodology section discusses reviewing existing weather reporting systems and literature on weather forecasting challenges. The goal is to create an easy to use app that provides beneficial weather information for Nepali users.
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Project Proposal
on
MAUSAM
Tribhuvan University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Bachelors in Computer Application
Submitted to
Department of Computer Application
Mahendra Morang Adarsha Multiple Campus
Biratnagar, Morang
Submitted by Kusal Kattel Class: Sixth Semester Class Roll No.: 08
April 2022 1. Introduction Weather Report means a public announcement of prevailing or expected status in the weather conditions all over the country and also important cities for the information of all people and warn of any drastic changes like thunderstorms, heatwave, cold weather conditions, etc. It has come a long way from the old manual instruments of observation to satellite weather monitoring over a very wide region. Modern life is very much dependent on advance weather reports for planning daily requirements like air travel, shipping industry, agriculture sector, etc. The mass media, with its far and wide reach throughout the day, makes our lives easy with periodic updates in weather. In our daily routine, it plays a significant role in as much as we are prepared for our outings, field reporting etc. MAUSAM focuses on studying the weather report and alerting the users about upcoming disasters that could be caused by irregular behavior of weathers. For example, if the temperature goes above 30 degrees Celsius, users is alarmed about the weather and they can protect themselves outside by using suns-cream or also by wearing light clothes and taking umbrella if necessary.
2. Problem Statement Individuals and socioeconomic sectors use different types of weather information. Most weather forecasts reports are targeted at one of four areas. These include the aviation industry, agriculture the general public and other meteorologists. Several countries set up government agencies to provide forecasts to the public in order to protect life and property and to boost the economy and geological need. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) advocates effective communication of disaster risk information to mitigate the effects of disasters that might be easily prevented. Awareness of what the end user needs from weather forecast and communicating it effectively is very important.
The system greatly simplifies the weather report for the governmental bodies and also publics in order to protect life and property and to boost the economy and geological need. The system will also warn you if there is drastic change in climate and if natural disasters like heavy rainfall, hurricane, etc. are about to occur in coming days. 3. Objective The objective of this project is to study how the weather forecasting and weather report works and the process of the system followed by the users:
To provide weather forecast details to all users.
To generate weather report of past days. To alert users if there is drastic change in climate.
4. Methodology 4.1. Requirement Identification 4.1.1. Study of Existing System People have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia and formally since the 19th century. Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere, land, and ocean and using meteorology to project how the atmosphere will change at a given place. Once calculated manually based mainly upon changes in barometric pressure, current weather conditions, and sky condition or cloud cover, weather forecasting now relies on computer-based models that take many atmospheric factors into account.[1] Human input is still required to pick the best possible forecast model to base the forecast upon, which involves pattern recognition skills, teleconnections, knowledge of model performance, and knowledge of model biases. The inaccuracy of forecasting is due to the chaotic nature of the atmosphere, the massive computational power required to solve the equations that describe the atmosphere, the land, and the ocean, the error involved in measuring the initial conditions, and an incomplete understanding of atmospheric and related processes. There are a vast variety of end uses to weather forecasts. Weather warnings are important forecasts because they are used to protect life and property. Forecasts based on temperature and precipitation are important to agriculture, and therefore to traders within commodity markets. Temperature forecasts are used by utility companies to estimate demand over coming days. On an everyday basis, many uses weather forecasts to determine what to wear on a given day. Since outdoor activities are severely curtailed by heavy rain, snow and wind chill, forecasts can be used to plan activities around these events, and to plan ahead and survive them.
Some of the Weather report and forecasting applications are:
The AccuWeather forecasting and severe weather alerts you know and trust. From local weather updates to Winter Cast snow alerts, get the weather forecast you can rely on. With in-depth weather news, forecast updates, free weather alerts, plus today’s forecast and much more. Find out what makes AccuWeather the best as a trusted, free weather app. It’s the weather tracker you need. AccuWeather is internationally recognized by the World Meteorological Organization with awards for “Best User Interface and Data Representation”, “Best Weather Warnings”, and “Best Design and Presentation of Information, User- Friendliness; Access and Customization” making AccuWeather one of the best weather apps!
Appy Weather
Appy Weather is the most personal weather app because it's been designed for humans by someone who actually checks the weather too. By summarizing the weather in plain-spoken & user-friendly language via its one-of-a-kind Timeline screen, Appy Weather sets itself apart from all other weather apps — no more scrolling long lists to figure out the weather as it's now summarized for you in a few lines and makes checking the weather fast, easy and actually fun! That said, there are more conventional hourly & daily views if that's what you prefer. Appy Weather's hyperlocal accurate forecasts are powered by Meriweather, Dark Sky, Open Weather and Forecast.
Today Weather
Today Weather is a beautiful & simple-to-use weather app that
provides the world's most accurate local weather forecasts. Today Weather provides global weather data sources: Accuweather.com, Dark Sky, Weatherbit.io, OpenWeatherMap, Foreca.com, Here.com, etc. Separated data sources for each country: Weather.gov (U.S. National Weather Service), Weather.gc.ca (Canada's official weather source), Dwd.de (Germany's Meteorological Service), Aemet.es (The State Meteorological Agency of Spain), Meteofrance.com (METEO FRANCE SERVICES), Bom.gov.au (Australia's official weather forecasts), Smhi.se (Swedish Meteorological), Dmi.dk (Danish Meteorological Institute), Yr.no (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute), Met.ie (The Irish National Meteorological Service), MeteoSwiss. Personalize your phone/tablet with the coolest and fully customizable widgets. It is easy to view weather information anywhere in the world and prepare for anything with 24/7 weather forecast and chance of rain.
And so on. Above mentioned applications are good for users aboard but not very useful for our nation. The application should be easy to login and see the weather reports at anytime, anywhere. So, the goal of this project is to provide easy and useful application which could be beneficial for any users who wants to get weather details.
4.1.2. Literature Review
Weather simply refers to the condition of air on the earth at a given place and time. It is a continuous, data-intensive, multidimensional, dynamic and chaotic process. These properties make weather forecasting is a formidable challenge. Forecasting is the process of estimation in unknown situations from the historical data. Weather forecasting is one of the most scientifically and technologically challenging problems around the world in the last century. To make an accurate prediction is indeed, one of the major challenges that meteorologists are facing all over the world. Since ancient times, weather prediction has been one of the most interesting and fascinating domains. Weather forecasting has been one of the most challenging difficulties around the world because of both its practical value in popular scope for scientific study and meteorology. Weather is a continuous, dynamic, multi- dimensional chaotic process, and data-intensive and these properties make weather forecasting a stimulating challenge. It is one of the most imperious and demanding operational responsibilities that must be carried out by many meteorological services all over the globe. Various organizations / workers in India and abroad have done demonstrating using supported time series data manipulation. The various methodologies viz. statistic decomposition models, Exponential smoothing models, ARIMA models and their dissimilarities like seasonal ARIMA models, vector ARIMA models using flexible time series, ARMAX models i.e., ARIMA with following informative variables etc., which has been used for forecasting purposes. Many trainings have taken place within the analysis of pattern and circulation of rainfall in many regions of the world. Totally altered time series methods with different purposes are used to investigate weather information in many different literatures. Accurate and timely weather forecasting is a major challenge for the scientific research. Weather prediction modelling involves a combination of many computer models, observations and acquaintance of trends and designs. Using these methods, practically accurate forecasts can be made up. Regression is a statistical experimental technique and it must be widely used in many businesses, the behavioral sciences, social and climate recasting and many other areas. Agrawal et al. (1980) explained the phenomena for time series regression models for forecasting the yield of rice in Raipur district on weekly data using weather parameters [1]. In [2] the author Kou and Sun, (1993) was used to Associate in having intervention model for average10 days stream flow forecast and synthesis that was investigated by to affect the extraordinary phenomena caused by typhoons and different serious irregularities of the weather of the Tan Shui geographical area in Taiwan. In [3] Chew et al, (1993) conducted a comparison of six rainfall- runoff modeling approaches to pretend daily, monthly and annual flows in eight tolerant catchments. They concluded that time-series approaches will agreement adequate estimates of monthly and annual yields within the water capitals of the catchments. In [4] Langu, (1993) is another approach which used statistical analysis to observe changes in weather and runoff patterns to go and look for important changes inside the parts of variety of weather statistic. Box and Jenkins (1994), in early 1970's, pioneered in developing methodologies for statistic indicating within the univariate case often known to Univariate Box-Jenkins (UBJ) ARIMA modeling in this approach of the author[5].The variables which describes weather conditions vary continuously with time in this explanation we found that the author [6], describing time series of each and every parameter and can be used to develop a forecasting model either statistically or using some new means that uses this time series data (Chatfield 1994; Montgomery and Lynwood 1996). Several authors have discussed the fuzziness associated with the weather systems.
4.1.3. Requirement collection
Requirement collection plays a key role. Requirement’s collection is not only important for the project, but it is also important for the project management function. For the project, understanding what the project will eventually deliver is critical for its success. Through requirements, the project management can determine the end deliveries of the project and how the end deliveries should address client’s specific requirements. Requirements are of basically two types. They are functional requirements and non-functional requirements.
Functional Requirements MAUSAM aims to improve the efficiency of weather report on everyone's palm, and the main function is to made easy and effective for everyone to view and get notified about weather. The admin are major functional requirements in the system. Only the Admin will be given powers to add, delete and update weather reports of various place if needed.
Non-Functional Requirement Non-functional requirements enhance the system by providing quality-based attributes which leads to system running more smoothly and efficiently. These requirements are to enhance user experience by making sure system is responsive, fast and works as intended.
Software Requirement Operating System: Windows Technology: Java, android studio Server: XAAMP
4.2. Feasibility Study
A feasibility study refers to test carried out to know about the criteria of a developed system. This software has been tested for various feasibility criterions from various points of views.
4.2.1. Technical Feasibility
Technical feasibility this project will be focused on gaining an understanding of the present technical resources of the organization and their applicability to the expected needs of the proposed system. Development of the System require tools like: visual studio
4.2.2. Operational Feasibility
This system is easy so that it will support the customer and the service provider during the operational phase. The solution provided by this system will be acceptable to ultimate solution for the stock management. 4.2.3. Economic Feasibility This system is estimated to be economically affordable. It is medium scale desktop application and has affordable price. The benefit include increased efficiency and better performance. Comparing the cost and benefits the system is found to be economically feasible.
4.2.4. Schedule Feasibility
Schedule Feasibility is defined as the probability of a project to be completed within its
scheduled time limits, by a planned due date. This project has a high probability as it will be completed in time, then its schedule feasibility is appraised as high.
Gantt Chart:
A Gantt chart is a bar chart that provides a visual view of tasks scheduled over time. A Gantt chart is used for planning projects of all sizes, and it is a useful way of showing what work is scheduled to be done on a specific day. It can also help you view the start and end dates of a project in one simple chart.[4]
Project Management is one of the confusing and tedious tasks. It is one of the important steps to choose the right methodology to develop the new system. Software development life cycle (SDLC) models show the ways to navigate through the complex and demanding process of software building. A project’s quality, timeframes, budget, and ability to meet the stakeholders’ expectations largely depend on the chosen model. [4] To develop the MAUSAM I have chosen the waterfall model. The Waterfall Model is the linear- sequential life cycle model. It is very simple to understand and use. In a waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the next phase can begin and there is no overlapping in the phases. It was the first Process Model to be introduced. The Waterfall model is the earliest SDLC approach that was used for software development. The waterfall Model illustrates the software development process in a linear sequential flow. This means that any phase in the development process begins only if the previous phase is complete. In this waterfall model, the phases do not overlap.
Fig: Waterfall Model
4.3.2 System Flowchart
Fig : system flowchart for MAUSAM
4.3.3 Use Case Diagram
The Project MAUSAM is a complete mobile application designed on android studio using Java and Visual Studio Software. The main aim of the project is to provide users with weather report and estimated weather forecasting reports. This mobile application is based on the data mainly provided by Government of Nepal, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and some others applications like Accuweather, Google feed, Today Weather, etc. The application contains detailed weather report of various places of Nepal and some other countries also. Here the login page is created in order to save the weather report for future use and also to alert the specific user based on their location.
Following are the system design of the system:
Log in to the system. View report. Save date and report. (if needed) Close application. Fig: - Use Case Diagram for MAUSAM 5 Expected Outcome
After the completion of the project, we are expecting the following outputs which will minimize the problems as well as solve the existing problem. Expected to be easy in viewing weather report. Gets notified if there is heavy changed in climate. Save reports for future use if needed.
