Abstract:
Most of the chemicals which we use at home for various activities like spraying, cleaning,
fuelling, bush burning is hazardous in nature. Some of them are corrosive in that a leakage
or a spill may affect the durability of other equipment (like utensils, cutlery) which
consequently, may cause the family to be continually buying such property on top of
misusing the chemicals themselves which also leads to wastage. Other chemicals (for
example petrol, paraffin, and brake fluid among others) are so flammable that any
mishandling can cause fire outbreak in a house hence leading to the destruction of property.
The rest are poisonous in a sense that once mistaken to be drinks or food stuffs may result
into accidental poisoning especially in children. In Uganda, some homes have cupboards,
shelves, and drawers where such chemicals are stored but it’s so unfortunate that these
cupboards are not customized for that purpose, the same cupboard used for storing books,
food staffs, utensils, screens and even such chemicals hence a leakage of container in one
shelf affects other items stored in another shelf. This project was therefore aimed at
developing storage system for customized storage units which can accommodate such
chemicals so that we reduce on the number of chemicals outside the storage unit, which
come as a result of having very many family members who access the storage unit for
various intensions, and end up leaving some of items like chemicals outside the storage
unit thus the home insecure in in terms of chemical storage. This project focused on how
we can safely store these chemicals through minimizing the access to such storage units,
monitoring and capturing the inflow and out flow of chemicals and providing an alert in
case one forgets to return the chemical he/ she picked. The work is arranged mainly in six
chapters, Chapter one includes the introduction of a system. Chapter two discusses the
literature related to the system, Chapter three illustrates the methodologies used in coming
up with the working prototype of the system, Chapter four includes system design and
analysis, Chapter five is contains the implementation and testing of the system and chapter
six contain the summary of the work, discussions, conclusions and recommendations.