Object and Data Modelling Report: Collin's Car Parking System Analysis

This report provides a detailed analysis of Collin's car parking system, focusing on object and data modeling principles. It begins with a system vision document and outlines the business requirements, including customer registration, ticket booking, and automated security. The report explores business opportunities such as online services and the potential for market expansion. It also addresses business objectives, market needs, and potential risks like natural disasters and system failures. The vision solution emphasizes a fully digitalized system with enhanced security. The report includes a stakeholder profile, stakeholder map, and resource requirements. A business feasibility analysis considers potential challenges. The report concludes with a list of references. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the Collin's car parking system, its goals, and the challenges it faces.

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Table of Contents
System vision document..................................................................................................................2
Business requirements.................................................................................................................2
Background of the case study..................................................................................................2
Business Opportunities............................................................................................................2
Business Objectives.................................................................................................................3
Market needs............................................................................................................................3
Business risks...........................................................................................................................4
Vision Solution............................................................................................................................4
Vision statement......................................................................................................................5
Main features...........................................................................................................................5
Limitations and scope..................................................................................................................5
Business context..........................................................................................................................6
Stakeholder profile...................................................................................................................6
Stakeholder map..............................................................................................................................7
Resources required...........................................................................................................................7
Business feasibility..........................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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System vision document
Business requirements
The existing car parking models could not cope up with the rising number of vehicles
operating in the streets of the cities. Collin’s car parking model tends to bring innovation in the
business. Considering the business information of the Collin’s car parking system, it can be
observed that the business requirements includes customer registration in the Collin’s car park,
ticket booking system, installation of the ticket generation system, set up for automatic security
monitoring, plots for setting up the car parking, efficient architecture of the car park so that more
number of vehicles could be accommodated in shorter space and installation of an automatic
ticket checking system (Moon & Ha, 2013). Other business requirements involve installation of
automatic customer feedback system and marketing its business model.
Background of the case study
Collin’s car parking aspires to present a car parking based model that would be
instrumental in handling the day to day traffic of the cities. Currently, Collin’s car parking
possesses twenty operating centers across the city of Melbourne. Collin’s car parking system
provides simpler mode of operation to their customers such as simpler ticket booking, easy
access and exit to the car park are some of the attractions that it provides for its customers.
Business Opportunities
In case the Collins’ extend their services to online applications which would allow users
to avail the Collin’s car parking services online such as checking availability of spaces, choosing
the spaces, online ticket booking as well as ticket generation can lead to gaining of more number
of customers. This would make the Collins’ mode of service much simpler compared to that of

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the other existing car parking models present in the market (Gruyer et al., 2104). Considering the
present scenario of the cities were more than 90% of the human population prefer to travel by
their private vehicles a modernized car parking models as that of Collins’ is the need of the hour.
Installation of such digitalized system in the car parking spaces can reduce the chaos providing
the city dwellers with healthy travelling experience (Yakut et al., 2013). It can be said that the
system proposed by Collin’s car park is much advanced compared to the other products
prevailing in the market thus increasing its chance of market profits.
Business Objectives
 Expanding to different regions.
 Increasing the customer base.
 Gaining customer satisfaction.
 Achieving a yearly turnover of $1million.
 Complete digitalization of the car parking system.
Market needs
Considering the present development scenario of the car parking models where users
have to struggle to find a space to park their vehicles, it can said that the much upgraded model is
the need of an hour. A typical car parking system that a customer would wish for will involve
simpler availing of the services, cost efficient, less time consuming and round the clock service
(Mingardo, van Wee & Rye, 2015). Apart from this, automatic car parking system with much
upgraded security measures are also included in the list of major market requirements.

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Business risks
The Collin’s car park system is also exposed to number of business risks. The following
points highlight some of the major business risks that the Collins’ might face:
 Natural calamities that might destruct the car parking plots.
 Credentials of number of customers will be at stake if the software gets hacked.
 Failure of the installed system.
 In case the Collins’ could not cope up with the customer demands, this might create a
negative impression in front of their customers.
 Less number of land contracts.
 Unavailability of spaces to set up the car parking system.
 Decline in the world economy, which in turn will reduce number of vehicles in the roads
(Farren, Milou & Volakos, 2015).
Vision Solution
In the long run the company aims to offer a completely digitalized car parking system
offering much simpler mode of operation. Installation of the automatic security system is also in
the list of the Collins’ vision (Polycarpou, Lambrinos & Protopapadakis, 2013). The Collins’
aspires to gain customer satisfaction by providing such innovative mode of services and after
gaining customers the Collins’ aims to extend its business to other regions, in the process
offering smart city solution across the globe.

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Vision statement
Collin’s aspires to expand its business worldwide offering much simpler mode of services
and increasing its customer base. It aims to develop software that would enable the customers to
avail services online with the help of internet connection.
Main features
The features of the Collin’s car parking model are as follows:
 Online services which enables the customer to check availability of car parking spaces
online. Collins’ provide their fixed customers with fixed places which means fixed
customers can always avail the service.
 Minimal parking costs.
 Stringent security measures- The Collins’ keeps a regular check on the number and the
duration of the security visits in the car park (Nagakalyan & Raghukumar, 2014).
 Incorporation of digitalized system (Hans, Sethi, & Kinra, 2015).
 Hassle free ticket generation and ticket checking technique which requires the ordinary
customers to press the button on the control pillar for generating the ticket and the fixed
customer is required to insert their tickets in the slot installed in the control pillar.
 Collins’ provide easy exit to their customer the fixed customers are not required to pay
every time when they leave the car park only they have to insert their ticket in the
required slot.
Limitations and scope
Scope - The Collin’s car parking business have huge scope to expand their business.
Offering a totally digitalized car parking system would help them to earn more profits

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considering the market demands. Keeping in mind the present market standards if the Collins’
could come up with simpler plan their normal customers, this can help them in gaining the
attention of their normal customers as well (Bonde et al., 2014).
Limitations – The Collins’ have no provision for public transport system also it may
resist the customers to pay the same amount for two wheeler vehicles as the parking fee structure
of the Collins’ is based on time of parking rather than the space occupied.
Business context
Stakeholder profile
The main stakeholders of the Collin’s car parking are:
 Employees – This includes all the people who are involved in the office works of
the business such as the engineers, security guards, management team.
 Customers – This includes both their regular as well as normal customers.
 Tourists – This includes the tourist who rent cars to travel the city.
 Land contractors – This involves the one involved in providing land contract for
the car park.
 Architects – The one that will plan the design of the car park.
 Suppliers – They provides the Collin’s with the required raw materials.

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HIGH MEDIUM HIGH
Customers Employees Share holders
Level of influence
Operational Investors
Internal ExternalExternal
Stakeholder map
Resources required
The major resources considered for the Collin’s business are:
 Business development team.
 Required infrastructure
 Raw materials
 Design plan for the car park
 Management and administrative team.
 Software maintenance team

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Business feasibility
Unpredictable weather changes, unavailability of the land spaces can pose a major threat
to the Collin’s car parking business. A loophole in the security management can incur huge loss
to the business (Gu et al., 2013). Other issue such as high land prices, system failure and
software issues can also be considered as some of their business risks.

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Gruyer, D., Choi, S., Boussard, C., & d'Andrea-Novel, B. (2014, June). From virtual to reality,
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Mingardo, G., van Wee, B., & Rye, T. (2015). Urban parking policy in Europe: A
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