Development of integrated e-parcel management system with GSM network

As the trend of information dissemination has become more important, the use of mobile communication medium has gained more popularity. Since the number of mobile applications developed had increased tremendously, the technology offers an option to end user with information at their fingertips. Thus the notification methods also change drastically from notice board to Short Messaging System (SMS) based notification system. This paper intends to discuss the development process of e-parcel management system which is integrated with Global System for Mobile (GSM) networks. The whole system utilizes the barcode system, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Active Server Pages 3.0 as the interface, and mobile network to realize the intended purpose. The implementation shows that the prototype developed has successfully executed and it is concluded this on-going research requires further improvement on the current prototypes.