Information Systems capstone

Backyard Livestock Monitoring System (BLMS)

Completed Capstone / Prototype2026

I helped design a capstone prototype for the Municipality of San Miguel to monitor backyard livestock, manage veterinary services, and organize agricultural records. It was not deployed for municipal operations.

My contribution: Project Manager & Systems Analyst
Client: Municipality of San Miguel — Department of Agriculture
Project evidence: Best Capstone Project
Completed capstone prototype

Areas of contribution

Systems Analysis
Requirements Gathering
System Design

The Challenge

The Municipal Agriculture Office relied on paper records, phone calls, and text messages to monitor livestock health. This led to:

• Slow disease reporting
• Scattered records
• Delayed veterinary response
• Difficult monitoring across barangays
• Limited data for planning

The Goal

We wanted to design a digital platform that could help the municipality:

• Register farmers and households
• Monitor livestock
• Report animal health concerns
• Request veterinary services
• Record livestock transactions
• Support planning via organized data

My Responsibilities

As Project Manager & Systems Analyst, I worked on:

• Planning the project
• Gathering system requirements
• Interviewing stakeholders
• Designing system workflows & diagrams
• Preparing system documentation
• Designing interfaces and prototypes
• Coordinating the project team

System Stakeholders

User

System Purpose

Farmers

Report livestock health concerns and manage livestock records.

Barangay DA Representatives

Assist farmers and submit formal reports.

MAO Veterinarian

Review reports, schedule field visits, and record treatment outcomes.

MAO Head

Monitor overall operations and manage staff deployment.

Auction Market Staff

Record livestock market transactions to update local inventory.

Operational Architecture

Farmer

Reports Animal Health Concern

AI-Assisted Priority Check

Municipal Veterinarian Reviews Case

Visit Scheduled

Treatment Recorded

Municipality Dashboard Updated

Prototype Features

Household Registration

Livestock Monitoring

Keep strict records of livestock owned by each household.

Health Reporting

Allow farmers to immediately report sick animals through the system.

Veterinary Services

Request and log farm visits, mass vaccinations, and check-ups.

AI-Assisted Triage

Help veterinarians identify and prioritize urgent case reports faster.

Market Transactions

Record livestock sales and automatically update local inventory.

Municipal Dashboard

Monitor reports, requests, and livestock data across the entire municipality.

Business Analysis Process

Discovery

↳Requirements Gathering
↳Research
↳Stakeholder Interviews
↳Field Observation

Architecture

↳Process Analysis
↳System Design

Prototyping

↳Wireframing
↳Interactive Prototype

Delivery

↳System Evaluation
↳Final System Design

System Design Artifacts

11 diagrams document the proposed workflows and system design. I created and organized these artifacts to explain how the capstone could work. Select a preview to explore the details, zoom in, or open the original image.

Project Approach

2 diagrams

The system's scope and the process used to develop and refine its design.

Conceptual Framework

Connects registration, livestock, health-reporting, market, and administrative inputs to the proposed BLMS processes and output.

Design Methodology

Shows planning, analysis, design, prototyping, evaluation, and refinement leading to the final system design.

System Design

4 diagrams

User responsibilities, class relationships, and the proposed deployment and security design.

Use Case Diagram

Maps the five user roles to their system responsibilities, including livestock records, service requests, reporting, and market transactions.

Class Diagram

Models users, households, livestock, health reports, veterinary requests, tasks, announcements, and market transactions with their relationships.

Proposed Deployment

Outlines farmer and staff applications, cloud hosting, backend services, storage, and external SMS, maps, notification, and triage services.

Security Design

Documents intended authentication, role-based access, encrypted communication, protected storage, and access to triage rules.

User Workflows

5 diagrams

Activity diagrams show how each stakeholder would carry out their tasks in the proposed system.

Farmer Activity

Follows registration and household geotagging through livestock management, health reporting, veterinary requests, and record viewing.

Barangay DA Representative Activity

Shows assigned tasks, farmer registration, livestock management, and reports or service requests submitted on a farmer's behalf.

MAO Veterinarian Activity

Shows veterinary-service management, report and request review, scheduled visits, post-visit reporting, and resolved-case history.

MAO Head Activity

Covers maps and trends, farmer and livestock records, staff accounts, announcements, and report generation.

Auction Market Staff Activity

Follows transaction creation, optional receipt printing, history review, and transaction voiding.

Project Outcomes

✔I documented the proposed system architecture
✔I prepared the database design
✔I helped create the user interface prototype
✔I documented the processes
✔I prepared the requirements specification
✔I helped deliver the interactive prototype
✔Our team completed the final capstone defense

Lessons Learned

Stakeholder interviews improved how I gather and clarify requirements.

Designing business processes taught me how technology needs to fit real-world operations.

High-fidelity prototypes helped me test ideas before committing to a full implementation.

Working as Project Manager strengthened my communication and coordination across the team.