My Bachelor Thesis
Today we (Roman and me) started our bachelor thesis. We had a first meeting with our advising professor, scheduled one with our external customer and already had some problems.
The thesis comprehends the development of a mobile payment application for the iPhone. With this application a customer should be able to pay parking lots from he’s iPhone as easy as possible. Our external customer called ePark24 has already a payment system. That system is a bit circumstantially. So our goal is to take the existing services and put them behind an iPhone application and expand it with some nice, useful and handy features.
Now that service is based on some 0900 numbers. You call them and then you enter your parking location and your license plate – or lot number. To do that automatically we need to dial so called DTMF codes. But that isn’t possible. Simple: Apple forbids to do that!.
The first version of that iPhone App should be available in the iPhone App Store by mid May 2009. I will try to keep you up to date about my thesis and that app on this blog. ePark24 announced our iPhone App already in their january newsletter. Have a look at the bottom of page two.
In this spirit, happy parking!
Thomas Post on February 17th 2009 in University