ICT115 Introduction to Systems Design: Smart Car Parking System Design

This report details the development of a smart car parking system application for Shire city council, focusing on platform selection. It compares web applications, mobile applications, and websites, recommending the most suitable option based on stakeholder meetings and requirement analysis. The report identifies functional and non-functional requirements, proposes a development methodology, and provides a work breakdown structure for project phases. The recommendation suggests mobile platform due to increase in smart phone users and outsourcing the project to third party vendor for effective development and maintenance of the application.

ICT115
Introduction to Systems Design
Assignment 2
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Introduction to Systems Design – Assignment 2
Executive Summary
The report is prepared for the development of an application for Shire city council smart car
parking system. The platform is required to be selected for starting the development of the
application. A comparison is made between the web application, mobile application and
website for development of the smart car parking system. The requirement of the shire city
council is analyzed by arranging stakeholder meetings with the council members and the best
possible solution is suggested for the starting the development of the application. The
functional and the non-functional requirement should be identified and a development
methodology should be selected for the development of the smart car parking application. A
work breakdown structure is created for identification of each of the phases of the project and
recommendation is given for the development of the project.
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Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................1
Topic 1: Comparison of the use of Web Apps, Mobile Aps and Websites......................................1
Topic 2: Work breakdown Structure...............................................................................................3
Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure..........................................................................................3
Topic 3: Recommendations...........................................................................................................3
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................4
Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................5
List of figures
Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure..............................................................................................3
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Introduction
The smart car parking system is designed for Shire city council for the management of the
request of the users and generate real time information for maintaining a transparency in the
system. The application is designed for eliminating the manual steps and automate the
different operations of the parking lot. The manual system takes much time for the users to
park their cars because they needs to find free space in the parking lot and the system
application is designed to mitigate the problem and provide real time feedback to the users
regarding the parking space availability, tariffs, etc. The report compares the different platform
for the development of the application and extend it for future use. Preliminarily a web
application is designed for the parking system and it is extended to develop mobile and web
application such that the system can be used by different users using different handheld
devices.
Topic 1: Comparison of the use of Web Apps, Mobile Aps and
Websites
The Mobile application is similar to website which contains a set of HTML pages that are linked
with each other and opened in the browser. The main difference of the mobile and the normal
websites is that the mobile websites are designed for small mobile device with touch interface.
The mobile application differs from it because they are needed to be downloaded to the
handheld devices and installed rather than opened in browsers (Wasson 2015). There are
different app stores for different operating system such as play store for android, apple app
store for IOs black berry app world for black berry. The application pulls out data from the
internet in a similar way as the web browser but it can be assessed without internet because
the interface is already loaded.
In case of development of a responsive website the choice is depended on the end goals. Here
the end goal is to develop a user friendly interface to interact with a large number of audience
to use the car parking system efficiently. It is important to develop a mobile responsive website
and then the mobile application because it is not safe to create a presence in the web (Irvine et
al. 2015). The application can be developed for a specific purpose and the functionality can be
added later and it cannot be achieved with the development of the website or web based
application.
The advantages of the mobile websites over the application are listed below:
Immediacy – The availability of the mobile websites are instant and it can be opened from all
ranges of devices irrespective of the platform or the operating system whereas the application
needs to be installed form the application store and cause a barrier for the engagement of the
user.
Compatibility – Different range of devices are supported by the mobile websites
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The mobile websites can be used to reach different mobile devices and users but the
application needs separate version and device type. Moreover the website can be integrated
with QR codes and NFC allowing the user to open the website on a single tap.
Upgradability – Fro updating the website there is no need of involvement of the user and it can
be done instantly but on the other hand for updating the mobile application the users need to
download and update for each of the device (Papadopoulos et al. 2017).
Find-ability – In case of the mobile website the user can find it easily because the pages are
suggested in the search result and it is listed in the specific directory defined by the developer.
Moreover the website automatically fits the screen size of the device when accessed from
different handheld devices. Whereas the applications may not be visible on the app store on
searching the key string and it depends on the app store itself.
Share ability – The links of the websites can be shared with the users and the user can take a
print out of the receipt of the booking of the parking space for reference but this is not possible
in case of mobile application (Meng et al. 2015).
Reach – The mobile websites are used for reaching more number of people in different ways
such as via the search engine, QR code, SMS, etc. while the native application can be installed if
it is known to the user.
Life cycle – The mobile websites can last for a longer period of time than the mobile application
because the application have a short shell life for 30 days and the user can uninstall the
application for saving the memory space.
Interactivity and gaming – the mobile application is best suited for interactivity and gaming
because no data are required to be downloaded and it can work offline (Yildiz, Lekesiz and Yildiz
2016). For the development of the smart car parking application interface the mobile
application would need to fetch rea time data from shire city council server and thus the mobile
website would be best suited for this scenario.
Regular usage – For the regular customer the application may be useful but for the majority
the application needs to be downloaded and woud consume extra space in the mobile device.
Native functionality and processing – Different function can be used by the mobile web
browser such as call, gps, sms, etc. but some other functionality such as the usage of the
camera are not supported and thus the application is required for getting all the features
effectively (Gosper et al. 2014).
No connection required – It is used for providing offline access to all the content and perform
the different function without any network connection.
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Topic 2: Work breakdown Structure
Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure
(Source: Created by author)
The work breakdown structure is created by including all the phases of the project
development and it helps the project manager to monitor the progress of the development.
The success of the project depends on the completion of each of the phases in time because
increase in time incurs extra cost in the development process.
Topic 3: Recommendations
For the development of the smart car parking system application the mobile platform should be
chosen because there is more number of smart phone users. New features and functionalities
can be added to the application and engaging a third party development team for the
maintenance of the application can help in increasing the efficiency of the application. For
outsourcing the development of the mobile application a professional vendor should be
selected because a big vendor have a complete development team such as developers, system
testers, UX support, etc. and the application can be developed in a less time. It also makes a
financial sense because outsourcing can reduce different risk that can arise if in house
development process is selected such as shortage of IT skill of the employee and unavailability
of the hardware or software required for the development and testing of the application. For
the development of the application hardware, software and other resources are required that
required maintenance and incurs extra cost in the development of the project. The cost can be
eliminated with outsourcing the development of the application and new features can be
included with addition of extra cost.
Thus it is recommended that for the development of the mobile application the outsourcing
would be the best option and it would help in develop the application at a nominal cost.
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Conclusion
From the above report it can be concluded that with the development of the mobile websites
the shire city council would be benefited because it can reach more number of people
irrespective of the platform or operating system used by the user. The URL of the website can
be shared to the user using different medium such as NFC, QR codes and SMS and the user can
use the link for using the service. The website is easy to maintain and can be developed at less
cost when compared with the development of the mobile application and thus it is a cost
effective solution for shire city council. More over the mobile website can be converted into
mobile application and it can act like a native application. Thus the mobile web application can
act as a practical alternative for the development of the native application. Lest time is required
for the development of the mobile website and the support and maintenance of the website
are less complex because the errors can be fixed easily and the compatibility issues can be
avoided.
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