Implementation and Dissemination of Employee Online Presence Applications with Geolocation Features at PDAM Tirta Anom City of Banjar Based on Android

Abstract

Employee attendance in a company is the presence and participation of employees physically and mentally to company activities during working hours. Given the importance of the meaning of a presence, a tool is needed that can manage the attendance process to be more accurate and efficient. Honesty and time discipline are mandatory in the attendance process. Attendance recap is usually done manually, although there are some companies that already use fingerprint devices, but there are some problems that can hinder attendance activities. In this case, the creation of an  android-based online  attendance system uses a geolocation system designed with the Software Life Development System (SDLC) development  method with  a waterfall  model development model and is created using  a JavaScript-based framework React Native, PHP and MySQL as  a database  The result of this research is the construction of an online attendance application using the Android operating system. Based on  the results of the alpha test  , the interpretation results of 'Very Feasible' were obtained with a value of 88.89% from media experts and a value of 100% from material experts. Meanwhile, the results in  the user beta test  through the questionnaire obtained a value of 95.24% with the interpretation results of 'Very Feasible'. Based on the results of the problem analysis, it can be concluded  that the Employee Online Attendance application at PDAM Tirta Anom Banjar City was successfully built by utilizing  the geolocation feature  to overcome problems that occur so that the employee attendance process becomes more effective and reduces inhibition.