7th International Conference on ICTCS 2022

Authors - Bhavana Vennam, Saravani Boyina, Gurram Kiran, S.Vasavi, A.Nageswara Rao
Abstract - Government Timber Depots provides the citizens with the various kinds of timber available at their required quantities. Usually the customer travels to their nearest timber depot available to buy the timber. A mobile application for timber depot management will make the process of buying timber so simple that they can order any kind of timber. Usually tendering process will take place in Government depots in order to buy timber so in our mobile application the user will send a mail to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) for requesting to participate in tendering. This app is developed as per the requirements given by APSAC. This app provides details on various timber depots available in the districts of Andhra Pradesh. It has the features such as information on types of timber depots, locations using maps, quantity of timber available in each depot, price of the timber. Such information not only saves the time for the user but also price comparison can be made from this application. Users can place the order for the amount of timber. Government officials can track each timber depot; control the prices as per Government rates. Each person could be furnished their logins for acting diverse transactions together with putting orders, updating information, monitoring the orders. Apart from Android Studio in Java, Firebase, Graph Algorithms such as Dijkstra's algorithm, A* algorithm are used to calculate the shortest distance from a Point X to Point Y in Google Maps.