| At the beginning and end of every year a team of student Resident Assistants
(RAs) go through nearly 1500 rooms on campus to record room condition and
inventory. At the end of the year, the check-in room condition inventory (RCI)
forms are manually compared to the check-out RCI forms to account for any room
damages. Because the process is entirely manual, it is extremely time consuming
and error-prone. To address these problems, we developed mobile software called
RCI-EZ (Room Condition Inventory made Easy) to provide an easy way to collect
data about residence hall room status, room inventory and maintenance requests.
The corresponding desktop companion allows for automated housing billing and
maintenance requests at the end of the year |
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