Automatic Qiblat Direction Using PDA GPS

Noor Badariah, Asan (2008) Automatic Qiblat Direction Using PDA GPS. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The Qur'an states that Muslims must Solat (Muslim prayer) in the direction of Mecca at certain times of the day. However, most Muslims have dificulty to perform their duty when they are in traveling because there is no such equipment available to determine the direction of Qiblat. Because of that, this project was developed for Muslims to determine the cment Qiblat direction automatically by using Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or Pocket PC with Global Positioning system (GPS) capability. This project can determine the current Qiblat direction automatically for users, who are on moving vehicles (Mobile) such as airplane, ship, train etc or who are in building (Static). For mobile condition, the Qiblat direction can be obtained by pointing the PDA in fiont of the user or mobile vehicle direction and the arrow of the compass will be pointing to the Qiblat automatically. For static condition, the Qiblat direction can be obtained by pointing the device (PDA) at any direction. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) based software has been developed using Microsoft Visual Basic.NET. The GPS receiver provides information of users' current location and the information will be synchronized with the developed sohe in order for the whole system to be operated correctly. This project is divided into 6 application which is contains Prayer Times, Local Time, Location Info, Qiblat Direction, Directional Finder and Calendar. This project focuses to improve the development of Qiblat Direction, Directional Finder, and Calendar application. The other three applications can be referred to '"Mobile Prayer Times for PDA Application" thesis by Faridah Azura binti Yahaya. It is highly hoped that this system could facilitate Muslims to perform their daily duty in a proper manner.

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