Background

• A hassle free, COST FREE PARKING in your local High Street.
• Help merchants increase footfall, sales and loyalty in your OFFLINE business.
• A multi-business collaborative approach that will uplift footfall, spending and location loyalty.
• An innovative way of balancing the needs of local business with the demands of managing parking provision. Powerful ‘Smart Cities’ insight & analysis.
• A solution that enables increased occupancy rates whilst reducing the costs of Parking Fees collection.

Development Approch

We used the time tested Agile Delivery Practice as the development approach

Solution

• Proposed solution developed using REST micro service architecture with JSON request and response. An authentication & authorization layer developed for enhanced security. Any communication with the REST API will be authorized using a Token sent by the client and the information will be encrypted.
• Web Portal of the serves as the administrative interface to the application for viewing transactional reports and updating the message for beacons notifications in the MVP. Beyond MVP the portal will be used for pushing relevant notifications etc. by the Administrators.
• Web App supports major HTML5 compatible browsers namely Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 11 & Edge. User interfaces for the Web App are responsive for the mobile & tablet view.
• Web App developed using SPA (Single Page Application) concept using AngularJS framework.
• CSRF tokens are used in every HTTP request to ensure cross site scripting attack is prevented.
• X-Frame-Options are set to same domain only to ensure the interfaces are not embedded in other sites.
• Material Design standards / guidelines defined by Google are used for the controls.

Technology Stack

• Java
• Tomcat
• PostgreSQL
• Spring Framework
• Hibernate
• AngularJS