One Call Away: an Old Keypad Phone as Security Alarm

Authors

  • Alexandra Q. Labutap
  • Andrea C. Lozada

Keywords:

Security alarm, Keypad Phone, Respondent's perception

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Alarming cases of robbery were recorded in areas located not only in San Pablo City but nationwide. In fact, Social Weather Station released a survey result last November showing that 5.3% or around 1.2 million families got involved in common crime cases including robbery and intrusion. As a result, residents invested in security instruments. This urged the researchers to improvise an affordable security alarm that will notify the house owner when there is an intruder through phone call. The formulation of this simple device requires an old keypad phone which is being left behind because of smartphones. Through this alarm, one's safety is only one call away.

METHODS

This research utilized mixed research particularly the descriptive research design to know the perception and to determine whether the security alarm is acceptable in terms of effectiveness/satisfaction, quality, and availability of resources. Prior to the data gathering process, a prototype of the security alarm was made and presented to the respondents. Researchers used interview and survey questionnaire for the thirty(30) respondents chosen in Brgy. San Francisco. Also, they applied statistical treatments such as weighted mean, chi-square, and coding for the qualitative analysis.

RESULTS

Majority of the respondents stated that the keypad phone security alarm was an effective product which could serve security purposes. Moreover, they said that the product gave old keypad phones another purpose and could hinder people from throwing them away. Through the application of statistical treatment, the computed assessment of the security alarm was interpreted as Strongly Agree (4.20-4.99) in terms of Effectiveness/Satisfaction (4.67), Quality (4.67) and, Availability of Resources (4.81). Chi-square showed a computed value of 18.03 which was higher than critical value of 15.507. Therefore, the null hypothesis stating that the keypad phone security alarm was not acceptable in terms of the given categories was rejected.

DISCUSSIONS

This study determined the acceptability rate of the keypad phone security alarm. Researchers are looking forward to further improvements through the support and involvement of the community. Once the society uses this affordable alarm, the common crime rate will be reduced because this alarm immediately notifies the owner and hinders intruders to do unwanted things. This study also encourages everyone to reuse things that are losing their purpose because of modernization.

Published

2019-01-18