Track: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Abstract

The Philippines is one of the countries that is most susceptible to natural disaster. Flooding, in specific, has the second highest average annual natural hazard occurrence for 1980 to 2020. Inadequate drainage infrastructure and problems with waste disposal worsened the effects flooding in the Philippines. The government has tried various initiatives including routine desilting, declogging works, dredging, and enhancing culverts. However, the nature of the drainage system in the Philippines makes a comprehensive analysis of its state challenging. Moreover, maintaining drainage systems carelessly could endanger the community and put sanitary employees at risk for diseases. 

Therefore, the creation of a drainage probe robot has been made with the intention of replacing human labor with robot technology when examining the drainage system. This feasibility study involves analysis of the marketing, technical, management, legal and taxation, financial, and socio-economic desirability aspect of a drainage inspection service business. The drainage inspection service business will make use of the drainage probe robot in providing services.  

The study deployed survey questionnaires and interviewed the respondents. The data collected were analyzed using various techniques like qualitative demand analysis. The study also designed and described the service system and information system.  

The findings show that the business concept alleviates the concern on endangering sanitary workers in doing the manual inspection and the problem on incomprehensible status of the drainage systems using the drainage probe robot in the inspection service.