- Parking lot has multiple floors, where customer can park their cars.
- Each parking floor will have many parking spots. The system should support multiple types of parking spots such as Compact, Large, Handicapped, Motorcycle, etc.
- There are different entry and exits.
- Customer has to get the parking ticket at the entry.
- Customer can pay the parking fee at an attender or during an exit.
- Customer can pay with cash (making it easy for implementation).
- Customer can pay at the parking info-portal, that is present in different floors of the complex.
- Parking can be done only when the slot is Available.
- Entrance board should show how many parking sports are currently available.
- Each parking floor should have a display board showing any free parking spot for each spot type.
- The system should support a per-hour parking fee model. For example, customers have to pay $4 for the first hour, $3.5 for the second and third hours, and $2.5 for all the remaining hours.
- No special parking for electric cars.
Entity | Description |
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Admin | Responsible for adding or updating reservations |
Customer | Customer gets the parking ticket and pay for it |
Parking Attender | Performs activities on behalf of customer |
System | Display the available parking slots per type |
- System has all the available slots
- Customer comes and parks his vehicle:
- Customer takes a ticket from that floors info-portal or from parking assistance.
- When parked there should be one slot reduced at that floor, as well as the whole system.
- Parking ticket will have the vehicle and floor information.
- Customer planning to the parking:
- Pay the parking fee.
- Fee can be paid at info-portal
- Fee can be paid to parking assistance
- Fee can be paid at the exit (in step 2)
- Takes the car to exit, and provide the parking ticket
- If fee is not paid, then pay the fee.
- Increase the available parking slot at the floor where customer had parked the car.
- Pay the parking fee.
Object | Definition |
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ParkingLot | This will have list of Parking Floors, name and address, and total available slots per type. |
ParkingFloor | This will have list of Parking Slots, and the available slots per type. |
ParkingSpot | type, available/parked |
Account | This will be a user with name, it can be eiter admin, or parking attender |
ParkingAttender | Inherited from account, also has functionality to createTicket/payTicket |
Admin | Inherited from account, also has functionality to addParkingSlots, ParkingFloor and Exits |
Vehicle | Each vehicle will have make, model, year, number and type |
ParkingTicket | This class will encapsulate a parking ticket. Customers will take a ticket when they enter the parking lot. |
ParkingDisplayBoard | THis system will take care of displaying the available slots per type. |
EntryPanel / ExitPanel | This will have a functionality to generate a ticket or pay for ticket |
Payment | THis will be responsible for the payments |
ParkingRate | This will be a constant with rates for each type and hours. |
ParkingInfoPortal | This will have similar functionality as Parking Attender, but will be used by Customer |
ParkingAttenderPortal | This portal will be used by ParkingAttender to perform his actions. |
ParkingSystem | This the main system that Runs the software. |