Real-time system event monitoring display via Liquid Cristal Display (LCD) / Ahmad Safwan Abdul Aziz

This research is about the development of system event monitoring and their information
will be displayed on Liquid Cristal Display (LCD). Monitoring of computing systems in
an organization is required to ensure proper functioning of system services by detecting
inconsistencies in system configuration. Monitoring the system also will enable system
administrator to predict and prevent problems that might make the system or its
peripherals unavailable to users. This project mainly focuses on developing a prototype
that can display system monitoring information on LCD display in a real time
environment. The LCD panel is connected to the computer via parallel port. The
function of LCD panel is to display the information that can be gathered by using
software that have been develop called ‘LCD Panel Utilities’ to communicate with the
LCD. The application has been developed by using Pascal programming language. The
development process follows the six phases in systematic design are preliminary study,
gathering and analyzing requirements, LCD front panel design, software design and
coding, testing and maintenance. At the end of the development, the prototype of the
application is come out and readily to be tested. For future researcher, some extra
features can be added at an application. Some features such as the local system
information can be added into the application. Future researcher also can make this
application at another platform operating system such as Linux and MacOs. The LCD
application on this project is working on local computer only, so that hope that the future
researcher can make it as a server client application where the real time information of
client computer can be gathered by remotely. In this project, we only use 2x16 LCD
size, for future researcher, they can use bigger LCD size for displaying purposes.