ITC508 Object Modelling: Inception Phase Report - Car Parking System

This report presents the inception phase of developing a car parking system for Collin's car park in Melbourne. It addresses the increasing challenges of managing parking with an automated application. The report includes a system vision document, problem definition, system capabilities, business effectiveness, and sub-system analysis. It further details resource requirements (software, hardware, people, and financial), a stakeholder map, and a feasibility study covering technical, economic, legal, and operational aspects. The proposed outcomes for the business, users, and the project are outlined, emphasizing increased profit, customer satisfaction, and enhanced efficiency. The conclusion highlights the system's user-friendliness, economic feasibility, and adaptability, aiming to automate parking operations, reduce human errors, and improve customer experience. The report also provides references for further reading. Desklib offers solved assignments and study tools for students.

ITC508 - Object Modelling
Assessment 1
Inception Phase
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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
System vision document........................................................................................................................3
Problem definition and description........................................................................................................3
System capability..................................................................................................................................3
Business effectiveness...........................................................................................................................3
Sub-systems:..........................................................................................................................................3
Analysis of functionalities of the system...............................................................................................4
Resource requirement............................................................................................................................5
1. Software Requirement.......................................................................................................................5
2. Hardware Requirement.....................................................................................................................5
3. People requirement............................................................................................................................5
4. Financial requirement........................................................................................................................5
Stakeholder Map....................................................................................................................................6
Feasible Study.......................................................................................................................................7
1. Technical Feasibility.........................................................................................................................7
2. Economic Feasibility.........................................................................................................................7
3. Legal Feasibility................................................................................................................................7
4. Operational Feasibility......................................................................................................................7
Proposed Outcomes...............................................................................................................................8
1. Outcomes to the business increased profit?.......................................................................................8
2. Outcomes for the Users.....................................................................................................................8
3. Outcomes of the Project....................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction
Collin’s car park from Melbourne is planning to implement the new software for various parking
operations. Collin’s car parking has 20 car parking stations running already in Melbourne CBD. As
the number of cars and vehicles are increasing day by day so it is challenging nowadays to manage
these vehicles parking. To overcome these challenges an automated parking application is needed to
install in the Melbourne. The system will perform following operations that are creating tickets,
managing payments, accommodating tickets, security management, parking management, validating
tickets. The number of clients will increase after implementing this application for providing excellent
service.
The application will handle both regular customers and usual customers. The application is user-
friendly and is easily altered in future as per the customer and user requirements. The report consists
of the software lifecycle of the application development and implementation. Incorporated into the
report is the study of the effectiveness assets necessary the expansive achievability of the
responsibility and the recommended result in the opinion of the examination of the case study.
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System vision document
Problem definition and description
Car parking is the system under Collin’s council of the Melbourne responsible for managing the
parking’s lots in the Melbourne area and already has 20 parking lots. As the number of transportation
vehicles is increasing day by day Collin's Parking has decided to develop the application software for
the excellent service. They are developing the system that is operative and proficient. The system will
perform following operations that are creating tickets, managing payments, accommodating tickets,
security management, and gate controlling parking management, and validating tickets (AcqNotes,
2017).
System capability
The user of this parking application is of two types one is regular and other is fixed customers. A
regular customer makes daily payments as per the rate card and the fixed customer makes the
payments weekly, monthly and yearly as per the rate card. The fixed customer has to make advance
payments whereas the regular or ordinary customer makes payment on the daily basis. The fixed
customer has the special area reserved for parking their vehicle.
Business effectiveness
According to the sort of customer, the ticket is generated.
 A fixed ticket is generated for company and individual who are well- known and have long
time validity that is for weeks, months and even years.
 A normal ticket is generated for a regular person having validity that is for a day or limited
hours.
 The implementation of this system will decrease the human efforts.
 The mistakes will get reduced after the implementation of this system.
Sub-systems:
 There are various subsystems in the application Collin’s car parking that are;
 Security management system
 Payment gateway
 Automated gates on entry and exit
 Ticket generating application
Analysis of functionalities of the system
There are various operations and functions that will be done by the car parking software that is given
as:
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1. The arrival of the customer that is when the customer enters the parking lot for parking their
vehicle.
2. The departure of the customer that is when the customer exits the parking lot.
3. Payment receiving made by a customer that is the payment processing according to the type
and vehicle of customer depending on time duration.
4. Maintaining record or database of staff and security guards for further processing like salary
credit and more.
5. Data collection for the decision making process which will help Collin's organization to
develop a better system and alter system timely as per the requirement.
6. Validation and verification of tickets on the basis of time and type of vehicle and customer.
7. Estimating total cost that is to be paid by the customer according to the time duration.
8. There is the fixed terminal for the special clients, issued with tickets as they make installment
(Idris, Leng, Tamil, Noor & Razak, 2009).
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Resource requirement
For implementing the system some resources are needed. To develop entirely functional system
resources needed are;
1. Software Requirement
1. Car parking software.
2. Cloud for storing database
3. Gateways for payment processing
4. Security systems(firewall and anti-virus)
5. AI that is artificial intelligence (Geng & Cassandras, 2013).
2. Hardware Requirement
1. Devices
2. Touchscreen LED.
3. Gates that are automated.
4. Computers for processing back-end process.
5. Switches
6. Cables for network
7. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices for wireless connection.
8. Barcode reading machine.
9. Printers for generating tickets.
3. People requirement
1. Engineers for hardware handling.
2. Engineers for software development.
3. Network engineer
4. Electrical expert or wireman.
5. Car parking system administrator
4. Financial requirement
For developing an entire system for Collin’s car parking some investment is needed to be
made before starting the system development.
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Stakeholder Map
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INTERNAL
EXTERNAL
ExecutiveOperation
al
Software and Hardware
Engineers
Car parking system
administrator
Customers
Security guards
Staff

Feasible Study
1. Technical Feasibility
The phase of the procedure is a very dangerous one. The threats included in different stages
are in the programming part and the implementation of the parts of Collin's car parking
system. A feasibility study needs to be completed skilfully at the different stages (Energy,
2017).
2. Economic Feasibility
The Collin’s parking application is economically feasible as the cost of preparing system is
not much. The investment did in the system implementation will double the revenue of
Collin’s parking system in future. So the application is feasible economically (Ofm.wa,
2011).
3. Legal Feasibility
There are a few risks that accompany it. If the application does not secure the risks of the
system then the data is under threat of unauthorized access. Proper actions are needed for
preventing this unauthorized access and to protect the application. A high-level security needs
to be implemented for a better application (Ppp-certification, 2017).
4. Operational Feasibility
The Collin's car parking application for providing parking facilities is user-friendly and cost-
effective. Also, it is its assumption to deal with various complications they meet; its execution
will give numerous chances to increase incomes from the wander (Whitlock, 2013).
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Proposed Outcomes
There will be following result that can be retrieved from the application that are;
1. Outcomes to the business increased profit?
 Revenues will be growing for Collin's car parking.
 The Collin's parking system will increase the profit as it will decrease the workforce so
the monthly salary credit will decrease and profit will increase.
2. Outcomes for the Users
 Satisfaction and trustworthiness among the customer will increase.
 Customer’s base is going to increase.
3. Outcomes of the Project
 The efficiency of car parking application is going to enhance.
 Image made by Collin’s car parking in the market will become positive.
 Services provided by this car parking application for parking management will be of
good quality (Ji, Ganchev, O'Droma, Zhao, & Zhang, 2014).
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Conclusion
The Collin's parking application for a car and other vehicles is much effective and user-friendly. Also,
the application is economically feasible and efficient to use. The maintenance needed for the
application is very less. The system is going to handle all the parking operations starting from ticket
generation, validation to the payment processing at last. The car parking application is made flexible
so that it is always ready to adopt the new modifications as per the requirement in future. Its main
purpose is to automate all the operations and functions done during the vehicle and car parking by
decreasing the human errors and waiting time. The Collin’s parking system will be a good experience
for the customers by it quality service and delivery.
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References
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http://acqnotes.com/acqnote/careerfields/business-case-analysis.
Energy. (2017). Technological Feasibility and Cost Analysis. Retrieved from
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Geng, Y., & Cassandras, C. G. (2013). New “smart parking” system based on resource allocation and
reservations. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(3), 1129-1139.
Ji, Z., Ganchev, I., O'Droma, M., Zhao, L., & Zhang, X. (2014). A cloud-based car parking
middleware for IoT-based smart cities: Design and implementation. Sensors, 14(12), 22372-22393.
M.Y.I. Idris, Y.Y. Leng, E.M. Tamil, N.M. Noor and Z. Razak, 2009. Car Park System: A Review of
Smart Parking System and its Technology. Information Technology Journal, 8: 101-113.
Ofm.wa. (2011). 40.40 - Economic Feasibility Study. Retrieved from
https://www.ofm.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/legacy/policy/40.40.htm
Ppp-certification. (2017). 15 Assessing Legal Feasibility. Retrieved from https://ppp-
certification.com/ppp-certification-guide/15-assessing-legal-feasibility
Whitlock, A. (2013). Operational feasibility. Retrieved from
https://www.madebymany.com/stories/operational-feasibility
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