TY - JOUR AU - AB - Purpose – Most organizations are outdated in managing information with the use of conventional pigeonholes as message boxes for each member to track staff incoming and outgoing mails. Several challenges are experienced due to loss of relevant mails, untimely delivery and acknowledgement of incoming mails as well as late feedback. This paper proposes a mobile pigeonhole alert system using a sensor device to send an alert to the intended pigeonhole users notifying them of the arrival of a message as well as the need for timely feedback. Method – Hardware and software implementations were carried out using JAVA programming language to program a sensor, hardcoded on a micro-controller. A well- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p rovided the original work is properly credited. structured questionnaire was designed and administered to 200 pigeonhole users (i.e., lecturers) in an academic institution to elicit information about their perception of the usability and performance of the system. The data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software for correlation and regression analyses between the usability TI - Smart Pigeonhole Alert System with SMS Notification JO - International Journal of Computing Sciences Research DO - 10.25147/ijcsr.2017.001.1.38 DA - 2020-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/smart-pigeonhole-alert-system-with-sms-notification-Zex3c0psWW DP - DeepDyve ER -