Design of Python Based Lost and Found

Website for College Campus

Usha Tiwari Shabana Mehfuz Satyam Sharma
Department of ECE Department of EE Department of ECE
Sharda University Jamia Millia Islamia Sharda University
Greater Noida, India New Delhi, India Greater Noida, India
usha.tiwari@sharda.ac.in smehfuz@jmi.ac.in sharmasatyam1112@gmail.com

Vinayak Triguna Pandey

Department of ECE
Sharda University
Greater Noida
pandeyvinayak1991@gmail.com

Abstract—Technology, developed over the years, has reduced page which was created for recovering ID Cards, Pets,
human efforts significantly. We have used this technology to Animals and Gadgets.
build a website called “LOSTANDFOUND.COM”. This website In [2], author Pravir Chawdhry et.al. Highlights ‘what is
is python based. This website will help people to get their lost
needed for e-commerce’. The components needed for e-
things. A person using this website has to just put his/her lost
thing on the website and the website will find it as soon as commerce are given below:
possible. HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, BOOTSTRAP, JQUERY, 1. Security and Privacy
PYTHON, DJANGO and SQLITE are the technologies which we
have used in making this website. We have used Django as a 2. Law enforcement
framework for Python in this website because it is fast, secure
and scalable. The reason we are using Python for this website is
3. Market driven approach
because it is simple, powerful and has many libraries. This 4. Self-regulation
website also helps people to connect with each other. This website
is extremely beneficial for private organizations where employees 5. Technological research
usually misplace their smartphones, laptop charger, smartphone
6. Socio-economic impact
charger, purse etc.
7. Network infrastructure
Keywords— lost, found, website, Python
In [3], author Huang.S et.al. Inspects previous literatures
I. INTRODUCTION which focus on trust in business to consumer (B2C) of e-
commerce transactions between the year 2001 and 2006.This
When a person loses his/her valuable item in office
process includes three phases:
premises, there is more than 50% chance that he/she will not
1) Selecting and Focusing Phase
get that item. Trust among employees towards each other plays
2) Analysing Phase
an important role in this situation. If a person finds a lost item
3) Concluding and Outcome-Converging Phase
of any other person in the office, there are chances that he/she
might not return that item to its owner. This is where the role of In [4], author Kim.J et.al. Provide a framework for
“LOSTANDFOUND.COM” comes. “MISSINGX.COM” is building brand equity online for business to consumer (B2C)
one of the examples of websites which helps in finding the lost companies. The framework can be provided by drawing on
valuable item. Keller’s (1993) consumer-based brand equity model.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW In [5], author Lah.C et.al. Want to improve current e-
Commerce implementation through social presence. For this
In [1], author Githinji et.al. Want people to maintain their purpose, this study explores e-Commerce trust properties
trust on LOST AND FOUND WEBSITES. This study with its attributes as suggested by previous researchers. This
focuses on three lost and found web applications which were study also identifies trust factors based on social presence
used in Kenya according to Google results. The name of the attributes. This research paper provides guidelines to online
first lost and found web application is “Zipate”. The umoja businesses for developing a trusted website which follows
ICT youth group made Zipate. The name of the second lost updated trend of e-Commerce.
and found web application is “Lost and Found Document
Center”.It’s aim was to getting lost items back to their In [6], author Rewatkar.L et.al. Describes the connection
rightful owners. The name of the third lost and found web between cloud computing and web application. This study is
application is “Lost and Found Kenya”. It is a Facebook also about the advantages of cloud computing and survey

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challenges and issues related to cloud computing. Cloud 2) CSS – Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language
computing is an on demand availability of computer system which makes websites presentable. Screen size can
resources (eg- data storage and computing power) without be controlled with the help of CSS.
direct active management by the user. Web application is a 3) BOOTSTRAP – Bootstrap is a smooth framework
client-server computer program which the client runs in a which makes the process of web development faster
web browser. Eg-webmail, online retail sales and online and easier.
auction. In [7], author Chen S.C. et.al. Introduces 4) JAVASCRIPT – Javascript is a language which is
dimensions of trust in an Internet vendor. They are: easy to implement because it is integrated with
Competence, Integrity and Benevolence. Competence is the HTML. Previously, JavaScript was known as
company’s ability to fulfil promises made to the consumers. LiveScript.
Integrity means company acts in a consistent, reliable and 5) JQUERY – John Resig created JQUERY in 2006
honest manner. Benevolence indicates concern for the with a motto: Write Less, Do More. Its size is about
welfare of the customers. This research paper makes a useful 19KB.
contribution in the development of theoretical understanding 6) PYTHON – Guido van Rossum created Python
of trust in e-commerce.In [8], author Cheung C.M.K et.al. during 1985-1990.It is processed at at runtime by
Has a multidisciplinary approach. They develop an the interpreter. There is no need to compile the
integrative model of consumer trust in internet shopping program before executing it. It supports Object-
through synthesizing the three trust literatures. The social Oriented style of programming that encapsulates
psychological perspective guides to perceived code within objects. It is a beginner’s language that
trustworthiness of internet merchants as a key determinant of supports the development of a wide range of
consumer trust in internet shopping. In the sociological applications from simple text processing to WWW
viewpoint there is inclusion of legal frame work and third browsers to games.
party recognition in the research model. This research paper 7) DJANGO – DJANGO is a high level Python web
gives conceptual and empirical understanding of consumer framework that is used to build and maintain quality
trust in internet shopping. web applications. It eliminates repetitive tasks due
to which the development process becomes an easy
and time saving experience. It is a registered
III. PROPOSED WORK
trademark of Django Software Foundation. It is
In There are eight technologies which are used in our licensed under BSD License.
project. They are: 8) SQLITE – SQLITE is an in-process software
1) HTML delivery that implements a self-contained, server
2) CSS less, zero configuration, transactional SQL database
engine. Its source code is in the public domain. We
3) BOOTSTRAP
don’t need to configure this database in our system.
4) JAVASCRIPT It can be linked statically or dynamically as per our
5) JQUERY requirement with our application. It accesses its
6) PYTHON storage files directly.
7) DJANGO
IV. Results of Proposed Work
8) SQLITE So, by using the eight technologies mentioned above in the
There are two components in our website methodology section we created our website
a) The Front End “LOSTANDFOUND.COM”. Below are the images of the
multiple sections of our website. Figure 1 shows the home
b) The Back End
window of website. Figure 2 shows the Lost section and
HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, BOOTSTRAP AND Figure 3 shows the Found section.
JQUERY are used in front end whereas
PYTHON,DJANGO and SQLITE are used in back end.
Python is simple, powerful and has many libraries. Django
is the most powerful framework for Python. It is fast,
secure and scalable. Below is the brief description of the
eight technologies used in our project:
1) HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
is a language usually used to develop websites.
Berners-Lee created it in 1991.”HTML 2.0”, a first
standard HTML specification, was published in
1995.Then came HTML 4.01 which was published
in 1999.HTML 5 is the latest version which was
published in 2012.
Figure1: Home Page of LOSTANDFOUND.COM

Figure 3: Section of Found Things

V. CONCLUSION
Our website gives us peace of mind and reminds us that
someone is always there in case of an emergency. Those
people who want to return the things, this website will help
them to keep the good work. There is huge scope of
improvement in our project. Our project can be enhanced in
such a way that by learning more python library, we can track
a person also. In [1], Lost and Found Kenya Application does
not have module to post lost and found items. Everything is
posted in one section in Lost and Found Kenya Application.
But in our proposed work there are multiple sections to find
lost items. In future the proposed work can be modified in
many ways. This proposed work can be enhanced in such a
way that by learning more python libraries we will be able to
track a person also.
Figure 2: Section of LOST THINGS

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