Spatio-Temporal Database Modeling And Applications For Assistance Of Huge Crowd In Hajj

The annual Islamic pilgrimage, Hajj has become very easy and planned in this era.

Authorities in the Kingdom considering to make this Holy event more secure, convenient and

controlled by planning strategically and comprehensively. For this, Government launched a

program, called Vision 2030. This program intends to facilitate and serve Muslims who gathered

annually in Makkah-tul-Mukarramah. Presented research proposes a model and architecture for

the Hujjaj monitoring and tracking using a mobile based application. This application

can function as a guide or facilitator for Hujjaj whilst performing Hajj (The Fifth pillar of Islam).

The gathering of hujjaj for Hajj is taken into account as, the most

important annual gathering of Muslims on earth. Hajj is a demonstration of the cohesion of the

Muslim brotherhood, and their submission to ALLAH, entirely. The word Hajj is a manner of

ritual or to intend a journey, which connotes each, the outward act of a journey and the inward act

of intentions. Theme of this proposed application is to make sure that the Haji perform rituals

(manasik) without a doubt, in accordance with the Sunnah. Presented application at the one

hand is capable to improve Hajj services, and at the other hand, it additionally make sure that Haji

is aware of that, ‘wherein he/she is and in wherein he/she supposed to be’. We used the foundation

of spatio-temporal concepts and theory to model data, operators and functions. These spatiotemporal

constructs are then integrated with geofence information to the proposed framework as a

conceptual model for system. Presented application has the potential to increase the

modern strategies in the way to offer assistance and provided quality of services.

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