A lecturer at the University of General Sudirman (PKA) has a unique idea for the empowerment of rural microenterprises. Which makes the application a cash register (the register) which runs on Android-based tablet devices.
Wake is Wijayanto, lecturer of the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering PKA, Central Java, which has this interesting idea. As is known, micro small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly the traditional market is currently competing with the modern market (supermarket / mini market) networked.
Comfort and convenience and modernity of networked supermarket often makes people start to switch from traditional markets. This condition is very worrying, because many people who depend their livelihood on the field of trading in traditional markets.
Among the comforts that often attract buyers to shop in the modern market than the traditional market is a cash register (the register). Cash register is a mechanical or electronic equipment which is used to calculate, record sales transactions, and is connected to safe money. Cash registers typically can also print a memorandum of consumers.
On the use of micro-enterprises in rural cash register very rare, generally every transaction will be recorded manually even less so the price of an item not listed by the seller, but keep in mind.
Convenience of consumers will be disrupted when the seller must be given in advance the price of goods, counting the total expenditure, it may even ketidakstandaran prices can occur between a buyer with another buyer.
On the shop owner could be trouble merekap know the number of sales and inventory, as perekapan done manually. The minimal use of information technology in the recording process of this transaction will inevitably make it difficult to develop micro-businesses.
On the other hand, the technology continues to evolve. Where the current Android platform become popular in mobile devices jajarang. The adoption of this device can be expanded to all things. No exception for micro businesses in rural areas.
This is accompanied by increasing proliferation of Android tablet device choice in the market with more affordable prices, one of them originating from China. In fact, the current Android tablet can be obtained for less than $ 1 million.
See where the cash registers for the Android-based micro-entrepreneurs in rural areas still not available to the public, eventually making Build Wijayanto to try to develop applications for it so implementatif cash register and easy to wear.
Besides being able to report sales of goods and stock availability reports, cash register-based Android application has another advantage that is capable of replacing the function with a tablet PC or a smartphone, which it certainly can reduce costs for small employers.
Current cash register-based applications being developed for Android can read the barcode of goods by using a camera phone or a tablet that is.
With the implementation of the cash register software made based Android-based touch screens are expected to have the ease of operation and become one of the solutions in accelerating penetration of information technology on society, especially in rural micro-entrepreneurs
