Web-based Hostel Reservation and Location Identification System Using IOT

There has been an unbelievable increase in hostels with the rise of educational institutions in Pakistan. Nevertheless, finding the best hostel for yourself in the nick of time is hard. Students are still using the old techniques of finding hostels via GPS and visiting them personally to see if a hostel matches their requirements. Besides, hostel owners who are not located in commercial areas must wait a long time for customers. To relieve the students and hostel owners, we have developed a hostel reservation and location identification system named Auberge Reservations. Auberge Reservation is a website application that aims to provide an online and computerized facility to students for locating a hostel of their choice and the hostel owners a platform to catch good enough students timely. The project aims to solve the problem of uncovering the best hostels for students in neighboring areas and revealing the central hostel systems according to students’ essential needs. The goal is to develop the finest hostels with all their vital particulars. Besides, the website will allow the students at distant places to reserve their hostel room in advance without visiting physically. Additionally, the webpage will provide the best prices along with the facilities offered by the hostels. The iterative waterfall model and Oriented Programming (OOP) methodology are used as development methods throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process. Visual Studio is used as software for the project development. For front-end development, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 5, JavaScript, and JQuery are used, while for backend development, PHP language is utilized, and Laravel is used as a framework due to its flexibility and being open source.