Abstract:
This diploma thesis covers the analysis of the adoption of mobile communication for the administration of a public parking garage. One main goal is the discussion of existing mobile communication technologies and the design of new applications that are using a cell phone as the central point for a parking garage visit. In such a system the cell phone could cover some exciting new tasks: Open the entry gate like a key, be a parking ticket and do the mobile payment of the parking charge. To give the reader an insight in existing mobile technologies, there is an analysis of m-payment technologies and access control technologies at the beginning of this paper. The analysis focuses on existing mobile technologies, like SMS and Voice-Call-technology, and on technologies that are still in development. The main focus of the analysis lies on mobile applications around the car, especially on mobile parking applications. The paper covers m-parking solutions of many different countries, which allow customers to pay their parking charge with their mobile phone. Apart of parking solutions that are designed for open areas, for example on street parking, the paper addresses solutions that are designed to allow access control via the mobile phone of the customer for closed areas, such as a company parking garage. Two voice-call-concepts and one RFID-concept are discussed in detail in this thesis. The detailed discussions address requirements and demands, the application area and the goals for such an application. Additionally the business processes of the applications are designed. The first concept is designed for a short-term parker without previous registration. For the payment the system uses the respective mobile payment solution of the different cellular phone network providers. The second voice-call solution caters for long-term parkers. When the leasing contract is concluded, the long-term parker is automatically registered for m-garage. After that the long-term parker is able to open the entry-gate with his mobile phone. The third discussion focuses on RFID-technology. This technology uses RFID-tags with unique identifiers to communicate with the m-garage system. At the end two resource management-problems are addressed: vacation replacement and car park sharing.
