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An Application on Smartphones :Parking Reservation
System
A.Rajeswari
Asst.Prof
Dept of CSE
Velammal Engineering College, Chennai-66.
R.Amirthavalli
Asst.Prof
Dept of CSE
Velammal Engineering College, Chennai-66.
ABSTRACT
The number of smart phone users and mobile applications are increasing tremendously. The emergence of powerful portable devices
and wireless technologies has made mobile computing a reality. In mobile computing, there is a tremendous surge of research in the
area of data management. The object oriented database is used to manage the remote server. Now-a-days, finding a parking space is a
tedious process for the car drivers. This paper proposes a parking system to solve the problem of unnecessary time consumption in
finding a parking spot in commercial car parking areas.
Keywords
Mobile Operating System; Relational Database; Object database; Parking System
1. INTRODUCTION
A mobile device also known as a handheld device, handheld computer or simply handheld is a pocket-sized computing device,
typically having a display screen with touch input and/or a miniature keyboard. Smart phones and PDAs are more popular amongst the
mobile devices. In the case of the personal digital assistant (PDA) the input and output are often combined into a touch-screen
interface. A mobile consists of three components: a mobile application that works as a customer, a wireless network connection and a
server that provides the functionality or information (content) required by the application.
In congested urban areas parking of vehicles is time consuming and sometimes expensive. Where car parking spaces are a scarce
commodity, and owners have not made suitable arrangements for their own parking then congestion occur. The main objective of this
paper is to develop a parking reservation system that reduces congestion and time required to park a vehicle.
2. MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM
Mobile operating system is the software platform on top of which other programs, called application programs, can run on mobile
devices such as mobile phones, Smartphone, PDAs, and handheld computers.
The most common operating systems (OS) used in smart phones are:
Android from Google Inc. (open source, Apache)
Android was developed by a small startup company that was purchased by Google Inc., and Google continues to update the
software. Android is an open source, Linux-derived OS backed by Google, along with major hardware and software
developers (such as Intel, HTC, ARM, Samsung, Motorola and eBay, to name a few), that form the Open Handset Alliance.
Released on November 5th 2007, the OS has a following among programmers. There have been seven releases of Android-
Android 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. All are nicknamed after a dessert item like Cupcake (1.5) or Frozen Yogurt (2.2).
Most major mobile service providers carry an Android device.
iOS from Apple Inc. (closed source, proprietary)
The Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad all use an operating system called iOS, which is derived from Mac OS X. Third
party applications were not officially supported until the release of iOS 2.0 on July 11th 2008. Before this, "jailbreaking"
allowed third party applications to be installed, and this method is still available. Currently all iOS devices are developed by
Apple and manufactured by Foxconn or another of Apple's partners.
BlackBerry OS from RIM (closed source, proprietary)
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This OS is focused on easy operation and was originally designed for business. Recently it has seen a surge in third-party
applications and has been improved to offer full multimedia support.
Symbian OS from the Symbian Foundation (open public license)
Symbian has been used by many major handset manufacturers, including BenQ, Fujitsu, LG, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia,
Samsung, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson. Current Symbian-based devices are being made by Fujitsu, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp,
and Sony Ericsson. Prior to 2009 Symbian supported multiple user interfaces, i.e. UIQ from UIQ Technologies, S60 from
Nokia, and MOAP from NTT DOCOMO. As part of the formation of the Symbian OS in 2009 these three UIs were merged
into a single OS which is now fully open source. Nokia handed the development of Symbian to Accenture, which will
continue to support the OS until 2016.
Windows Phone from Microsoft (closed source, proprietary)
On February 15th, 2010, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. The new mobile OS includes a
completely new over-hauled UI inspired by Microsoft's "Metro Design Language". It includes full integration of Microsoft
services such as Windows Live, Zune, Xbox Live and Bing, but also integrates with many other non-Microsoft services such
as Facebook and Google accounts. The new software platform has received some positive reception from the technology
press.
webOS from HP (certain parts open sourced)
webOS is a proprietary mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later
acquired by HP. HP released two phones (the Veer and the Pre 3) and a tablet (the TouchPad) running webOS in 2011 before
being discontinued.
The other operating systems are GridOS, Bada, MeeGO, QNX, BREW and many more.
The market share of smart phone operating system is shown below in figure 1.
Fig. 1: Market Share of Smartphone Operating System
3. EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing system makes use of traditional database for maintaining records (Record Management System (RMS)) in the server as
shown in the figure 2. The data is stored as database. This may causes inconsistency if you want to process information from a server on
the remote database.
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Fig. 2: Organization of records in the RMS
The parking reservation system is done by sending SMS (Short Message Services). When the user sends a SMS requesting for
a parking reservation, the wireless communication instrumentation device called micro-RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) processes the
information and sends the confirmation and a password. This password should be entered in the parking area and valid for a particular
period of time. The parking reservation flow chart is shown below in figure 3.
The disadvantage of this type of parking reservation system is time consuming. The user needs to wait in the parking entry to
validate their password, to get the lot number and for payment. If the user is late to the parking area then the validity expires.
Fig. 3: SMS Parking reservation flow chart
4. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The new proposed system can make use of object oriented database for maintaining data at the server. The object oriented database is
explained below.
4.1. Object Oriented Database
An object database (also object-oriented database management system) is a database management system in which information is
represented in the form of objects as used in object-oriented programming. Objects basically consist of the following:
Attributes - Attributes are data which defines the characteristics of an object. This data may be simple such as integers, strings,
and real numbers or it may be a reference to a complex object.
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Methods - Methods define the behavior of an object and are what was formally called procedures or functions.
The Comparison of relational database and object oriented database is shown in the figure 4.
RDBMS ODBMS
Fig. 4: Comparison of RDBMS and ODBMS
Advantages:
Objects don't require assembly and disassembly saving coding time and execution time to assemble or disassemble objects.
Reduced paging
Easier navigation
Better concurrency control - A hierarchy of objects may be locked.
Data model is based on the real world.
Works well for distributed architectures.
Less code required when applications are object oriented.
4.2. Online Parking Reservation System
The user can reserve a parking area online from a smart phone which is independent on mobile operating systems. The user
logs into the website and enters the place, period and number of vehicles and submits it to the server. The server searches for related
positions and displays the rate for various possibilities. The user can select the place based on the rate. The server asks for the personal
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details and the payment mode. Once all these details are correct, the server sends a parking confirmation report. This process is shown
in the flow chart in figure 5.
Fig. 5: Online Parking Reservation System
Advantages:
Saves time
Car safety
Easy and cost effective maintenance
Safety for drivers
Environment friendly
Efficient
5. CONCLUSION
As conclusion, the objectives of this project have been achieved. In this system a kiosk device is present at the parking spot as the
second security check. The road map is also shown for the respective parking lot that reduces the time required to search for the parking
lot. The application can be applied in all Mobile OS. Mobile computing has proven a fertile area of work for researchers in the areas of
database and data management. .NET is quite efficient tool for building applications for hand held mobile devices. If the developer
keeps in his mind the limitation and make the good of use of his ability he can do a lot of job with this tool. We hope that the future
generation products from Microsoft will be better than what they have provided us today. The designed system could be applied
everywhere due to its ease of usage and effectiveness.
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