Information systems strategy and management Assignment 03 This is the last assignment (3rd) of this subject and This is a 1500 words e-portfolio. We have done 2 assignments before and this one is connected to the 2 nd assignment which is a Capstone project. That was a group assignment and I have attached that assignment too. This ePortfolio Should contain following, ➢ My personal and Original definition of the term professionalism. ➢ An Assessment of SFIA skills, both specialist and generic, that I believe are required to produce Statements of Work for Assignment 2 (Attached) ➢ An assessment of my current personal SFIA skills, both specialist and generic, with evidence to support that assessment. ➢ A personal reflection of the work undertaken for Assignment 2 (Attached) Other requirements, ➢ ➢ ➢ ➢ 10 Academic References 1500 words SFIA Skills( https://www.sfia-online.org/en ) Use Report Format Purpose of this assignment - To provide students with the motivation and opportunity to consider and reflect upon their personal professional capabilities, aspirations and career plans Information Systems Strategy and Management ISYS321 Assignment 02 Group Project Report Good city council car park. Group Members; S00231192 Viraj S00177030 Sahan Table of contents Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 Issues of current car parking ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Information System Approach --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 SFIA skills ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Automated Car Park management system ------------------------------------------------------- 7 Deployment model. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Operational system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Entry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Payment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Obtaining season ticket. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Exit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 Use case summary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 The technical part of IS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 Synchronization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 Integration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Network. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 Online option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Control. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Security. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Conclusion --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Reference List ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 2 Introduction With the increasing number of cars within the city, Intelligent Transport System’s car parking system will be essential. To make this system work developing a system that will effectively manage this data and present them in a way that is most desired is critical. Management information system has been beneficial, reliable and dependable in all fields with regards to the organizational need for integrating processes and ensuring unified management. To develop a good city council car park, MIS comes into our salvage in ensuring that all activities taking place in all car parks are integrated to improve efficiency. A case study done shows a lot or relevance of MIS with regards to making a good city council parking system. This study aims to develop an Automated Car Park Management System that will enhance the quality of service with the aid of smart systems that help motorist locate vacant parking lot, efficient payment, and adequate provision of information. The inquiry was based on the implementation of an operational system and monitoring system without the use of manpower. It will entail a parking guidance and information system concept of which will improve the availability of information that will help motorist locate and assure them of the safety of their automobiles and what is in them. MIS aids in gathering data about car parking and making this information available to both city officials and the users. Development of a city-wide intelligent transport system should, however, provide real-time updates about availability of city car park lots in major centers with consideration of private or reserved car parks. To effectively design this factors of private and public car parks should be treated equally but effectively (SMART PARKING, 2016). 3 However to ensure that all processes are gathered for in the design of this component of ITS day to day operational processes that take place regarding car parking will have to be considered (Wei, 2010). Processes like handling payments, issuing tickets and controlling barriers of entry and exit to and from the parking have to be considered. Other operational processes that should be gathered for are how the system can enable efficient management of car parks, handle reservation by issuing seasonal tickets, and monitoring the quality of services provided by the officials designated in these areas. Issues of current car parking. Inefficient use of existing parking lots; management of car parks and the need for construction of new car parks has been a challenge. This is because gathering data about the usage of car parks with regards to congestion is difficult since the availability of parking lots are subject to seasons and time periods. Oversupply of parking spaces and lack of proper usage of existing lots remains a challenge of concerns. Excessive automobile use; the dependency on automobiles has costed the society. Increased residential vehicle parking costs and reduced travel choices restricted by the unavailability of parking lots has become a major concern. Accidental damages in parking and inefficient usage of available parking lots has become an issue of concern. Inconvenient parking spaces; finding a parking space in the area proximal to the place that you are has been a challenge. There is no timely report about the availability of parking lot space for your automobile in your destination hence necessitating you to manually inquire or move around looking for parking lots. Moreover available parking lots proximal to your area of interest is an area of concern. Loading and offloading zones; with regards to reserved parking lots, differentiating between loading and offloading zones from normal parking is a challenge and has at some 4 instance forced individuals to use chains to reserve their parking lots reserved for them to use in loading and offloading. Inconvenient parking options; the walking distance between your parking and your destination has been an area of concern since there is no credible assurance of available parking lot in your area of interest. This is because availability is subject to variations at different times of the day. Inadequate pricing options; the amount of time that motorists might use available lots is subject to variation with the respect that payments are made with consideration of the time that the motorist has occupied the lot. Underpayment or overpayment is an area of concerns since they have no defined period that they are going to rent the lot. Inadequate information to motorists; information about the price of available parking lots considering that different zones have different prices of renting lots due to changing demands for parking. Frustrations arising from high costs parking for motorists resulting from inadequate information about costs is an area of concern considering that there are areas of free parking provision. 5 Information System Approach. SFIA skills. The purpose of this skills is to map individual professional skills to a set of relevant standard definition of task designated on the basis of the level of complexity specified in the last column. Since we are only a group of two members, below is a defined list of our general and specific skills based on our areas of specialization; Viraj category Sub category Skill Level Strategy and Business strategy and Research 5 Architecture planning Innovation Business process 4/5/6 improvement 5 Solution development Technical strategy and and implementation planning System’s development. Network planning and design. 5 Solution architecture 4 Database design 4 5 6 Sahan Business change. Business change Business analysis management Requirements testing 6 Business process testing 4/5/6 Business modelling 5/6/7 Sustainability assessment. 4/5 Testing 6/7 1/2/3/4/5 Automated Car Park management system. As a solution to underlying challenges discovered, Automated Car Park Management system will be a provision that will ensure that payment rates are availed to respective users with the aid of Optical Character Recognition, available lots are displayed to the users, pricing options are availed to the users, security is assured, reserved parking is preserved, rent charges are accurately costed, and ensure that there is optimal use of available lots. Microcontrollers shall also be used to control entry and exit to the parking lots. To realize this Automated Car Park System will use the following technologies; 7 Deployment model. Operational system. The purpose of an operational system is to control entry and exit in the parking lots. With considerations of the two types of customers; ordinary customers who rent space for limited time, they pay on the day that only comes over whereas there are those that pay for a fixed amount of time commonly for three or six months according to the tariffs provided. Premium users shall have a parking reserved for them for the period hired and shall not be available to regular users. The regular users parking shall be marked unavailable only when occupied by a user. However, there must be a limit for premium users to ensure that parking lots are available to other regular users and optimal use of available parking spaces by avoiding instances of too many idle reserved parking lots. 8 Entry. The system aims at ensuring that the process of entry and exit in the lots is automated. With the aid of an optical character recognition system, the number plates for respective vehicles shall be scanned, then information about the system shall be sent to the server system for solicitation of vehicle data. According to the type of vehicle that is entering the parking, the tariffs shall be calculated (Sulaiman, 2013). For the case where the user is an ordinary user, a rate per hour shall be displayed to the user, with the aid of buttons available at convenient location and height, input dialog file shall be displayed to the user. The user shall hence proceed to dial the number of hours that he or she wants to rent the parking space. With the aid of the rate, the payable amount shall be displayed to the user, upon payment by swiping the barrier shall be lowered. For this case we shall have two barriers, the first barrier shall be for payment and the second is after verification of payment and validity assured. This is for the purpose that in case a user chooses not to park then he/she shall not go through the second barrier and for purposes of convenience in case a user does not fulfill payment does not reverse but proceeds towards the exit. Once validation is valid, then the second barrier is raised and a user can hence proceed to the while he/she picks the issued ticket that contains the slot available to him (Rashid, 2012). Part of the requirements for this system is to display available lots to the user, this is to enable him to choose from a variety of empty lots based on which he/she thinks that it is most convenient for him. And on choosing, the lot shall hence be marked unavailable. This is to reduce chances that a user does not find a space and reduce congestion by users trying to squeeze their motor vehicles on already occupied lots. For seasonal users, once they swipe the card that they are issued with, both barriers shall be lowered consequently allowing the users to proceed directly to the areas that they 9 rented. And once the system detects that the car has passed then it will lower the barriers (SENSOR, 2016). Use case example; Name: Car Arriving Actor: Car/Driver Other Actors: None Description: This use case describes a car arrives at the parking lot Initiation/Trigger: The use case is initiated when the car approaches the entrance gate Typical Course Of Actor Action System Response Events /Dialog: Step 1: Car approaches gate Step 2: The driver makes Step 3: The systems validates payment payment. Step 4: The system detects the car tag and checks with may database for Authorization. Step 6: The car is authorized and the System responds by opening the gate. Step 5: The car drives Step 7: The system closes the gate through the gate 1. Once the car is through. Step 8: The car parks in an Step 9: The system detects car. available space. Step 10: The space status is updated 10 Within the system. Alternate Courses: Alt-Step 3: If the car access is not authorized, an error message is displayed to inform the outcome that the access has been denied Conclusion: This use case concludes when the parking space status is updated Post Condition: Parking space status is updated from vacant to occupied Payment. The system shall accept payment by refund card, credit, card, cash, online payment, and plastic money. By cash, the user shall use insert coins to the slots availed at entry, in advanced stage notes can also be used with the aid of optical character recognition even although this faces a challenge of differentiating original and counterfeit currency. For the case of credit cards, a user can choose to pay by swiping or scanning the QR code that is displayed at points of entry, this code shall link payments directly to the Councils account and the user can proceed and log in to make payment. Parking cards can also be issued to the users, in this case, users shall make fee deposits prior to the time that they come to parking. For online payment users, an option for online payments shall be provided where these users can key in their user code, and password to sign in. Upon valid key, the payments shall be deducted and the users will be receipted. Upon completion of the process, the barrier will be lowered allowing the user to proceed to the second barrier. Upon validation, the second barrier will be lowered and the user can proceed to the parking after he/she is issued with the receipt. The user can then proceed to the selected lot. The receipt shall contain the car plate number, the date and time, the amount paid, the rate per hour, and the amount of time that the user plans to rent the space 11 and a QR code that shall be used to verify when exiting. For those with refund cards, they can choose can only swipe the card for QR code scanning (Rotary Smart Car Parking System, 2018). Seasonal users shall only swipe and proceed to the parking. However, a receipt indicating their entry and shall be important for them during sign out, even thou the card can also act as a proficiency when these users want to exit. Obtaining season ticket. For those users that wish to obtain season’s ticket, they can proceed to season’s ticket option provided. The system shall then search for availability of the season’s lots considering that not more than 10% of the lots should be rented to these users. If not available, a feedback shall be provided to the drivers. The driver can hence choose from other options provided. If there is a lot for a season ticket, options of available parking spaces for season ticket holders where the driver can choose from and the user can hence proceed and make payment. Upon validation, a temporary receipt shall be provided to the user. This receipt shall act as an evidence of payment. This shall also be important later when these users shall proceed to pick their cards that are issued for season ticket holders. The drivers can hence proceed to the lots of their choice. Exit. On exit, when users shall drive to points of exit. An option to swipe card or receipt shall be provided. With the aid of Optical character recognition, the car details shall be scanned and compared against the receipt/card provided. Upon validation, the system shall provide a sign-out receipt for the user, this shall include details of the vehicle, time in and time out and a recommendation. The barrier shall then be lowered and these users can 12 proceed to exit points. For those that managed to obtain a season ticket can proceed to the assistants to fetch their respective cards. If the user chooses not to do the parking once he/she is inside, they can choose to exit, however, if their receipt is not more than 10 minutes old, a refund card can be issued upon exit and these users can use this card for later parking or ask for a refund from assistance in form of cash. Use case summary. 13 The technical part of IS Synchronization. Barriers are synchronized with the payment option of this particular system. Upon completion of payment they can proceed to the next barrier and upon validation, the next barrier then opens up. If the payment is not valid, the red light in the barrier blinks signaling the driver to pave way for other drivers to enter the parking (Jindal, 2017). Integration. The parking system will also be integrated with the vehicle registry database. Upon scanning of the vehicle details, the system shall refer to the vehicle registry to classify the vehicle and give options to these users to choose from. This shall enable the system to classify the vehicle and give options based on the slots available considering that the vehicles sizes matter and so is the parking space. Several categories of parking slots are designed on basis of vehicle size, hence to effectively allocate this vehicle a parking lot them reference to available slots is critical to effectively determine and allocate. The system is also integrated with other parking systems within the municipality. This shall enable seasonal ticket holders to park at any location within the town (Medhekar,2016). Network. To effectively interconnect these systems, a strong, fast, and resilient network shall have to be designed. High bandwidth shall enable this system to communicate with each other or to the control system. The control system is responsible for issuing commands and displaying available slots at different parking areas within the town (Begum, 2018). 14 Online option. This is an option that shall be provided for information provision. Drivers will use this option to identify which parking is less congested and what lots are available considering that available slots are vehicle dependent and dictated by the vehicle that is to be parked. This will help to avoid an instance where a user will navigate to this areas and miss a parking space for their vehicles. Control. A strong resilient system that will act as a master computer to control all the parking lots within the town and responsible for allocating, verification, and issuing a command of receipting the system. This shall, however, play a critical role in the provision of lots available to the drivers after considering the vehicle type. It shall also provide for the display for online users on available lots at their points of interest. The system shall also respond to driver’s request and issue a unique code for each receipt that shall be scanned upon exit (Revathi, 2012). Security. A unique code is issued to respective drivers, it is upon the drivers to provide this receipt for scanning upon exit of the parking lot. Conclusion. Enhancing the services of parking is critical in reducing the costs that are incurred, security issues, and losses incurred in the parking of vehicles that have been realized. An automated Parking System will seek to address issues of unavailability of parking lots, optimization of available lots, and a guide to management about expansion, allocation, and the future designs recommended for parking. 15 Reference List "A LOCATION BASED SMART EMERGENCY CAR PARKING SYSTEM FOR USER SENSOR.." International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development3.11 (2016): n. pag. Web. 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