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Abstract

Technology intervention for better user experiences in religious or spiritual practices has become a new focus for researchers from different disciplines. In different religions, prayer time is maintained with importance in prayer houses such as in mosques, temples, churches, etc. Muslim perform five-time prayer in a day and prayer is performed at a fixed time in a day. Therefore, mosques maintain two type of times named Owakt time and Jammat time. We designed a low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) based smart prayer time management system so that an attendant of the mosque do not need to worry about the Owakt time management at all since the times get automatically updated in the clock from our system. In case of Jammat time, the attendant of the mosque can set the convenient time according to the expectation of the local mosque using the web interface of the system. He can access the interface from any device by accessing the local network and does not require to engage with clock every day physically.