CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Mobile technology has really
accelerate in terms of it advancement to the extent that it has limitlessly
left mobile application developers with no choice but to continue in it
manipulation of its usefulness over and over (Leng, 2011). Furthermore Mobile
tools are much stylishly made these days, so smart and handy which give room
for collection of data in our mobile phones. Mobile phone gadgets are now doing
the works of Global Positioning system (GPS) navigation gadget, because of it
sensibility in accessing vital information concerning present location of
valuable assets, places, friends and family.
Accessibility of location
based services via our mobile phones is possible; provided that the mobile
network can be retrieved by our mobile phones to exploit the use of geographical
position of the mobile phone has been a continuous achievement starting from
the military and later to every man jack. These location based services (LBS)
use the information, based on the available location of the user to provide
services dependent on their geographic setting, (Kirk & Mark, 2003) and
customize needs. GPS tracking is embedded in location based services as a
support tool in making use of mobile web (Leng, 2011). LBS, it’s been
considered at these points as those applications that entail a high level of
exactness according to (Giaglis, Kourouthanassis & Tsamakos, 2003). As a
result these with no stress user can easily access location like banks, hotels,
colleges etc. Project aspires to adjust
and influence the usage of location based services focusing mainly on ATM
centres available in Lagos State.
1.2 STATEMENT OF
PROBLEM
An automated teller machine
(ATM) is an electronic telecommunications mechanism that enables the users to
carry out monetary transactions in a public places using credit card with no
need of entering the bank. For that reason, users can effortlessly have their
transaction completed by means of the ATM (Leng, 2011). On the other hand,
people living in Lagos Satte are familiar with a particular ATM centre for
performing their daily monetary transaction, at times when this ATM centres
develops problem people are confused of which ATM centre to go to because they
usually pass by several ATM centres but never take noticed of the location in
which they are, so because of this they end up going to their Bank to be on the
safer side. In addition for instance a foreigner, being his or her first time
visiting Minna will find it difficult to locate a close by ATM centre when in
need of cash urgently. For this reason this project will be solving a lots of
problem in terms of locating an ATM centre closer to user current position and
providing the user ability to access the status of that particular ATM centre.
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The aim of this study is to
develop an ATM finder (My ATM’s status) mobile web application. For easy
location and broadcasting of the ATM’s status in Lagos State.
The specific objectives of
this study are:
To develop a system that will
capture ATM centres location using Global Positioning System (GPS).
To develop a system that will
locate a close by ATM location from the user’s present position in Lagos State.
To develop a system that will
display the status of a particular ATM.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Ability to locate an ATM
centre closer to user current position and also retrieving information about
the status of ATM centre will draw the trust of people living in Lagos State,
and also foreigners to approach any ATM
centre on this system with no doubt .
1.5 SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
The scope of this study is to
design and implement of a web base ATM of point locator using GPS. The proposed
system is developed on hybrid application platform for mobile application. The objective of the system is to show user
the ATM centre closer to him or her and the status of that ATM. The numbers of
ATM centres covered in this project are 10 in numbers. Smart phones are
recommended for this proposed system. Proposed systems are subjected to users
in Lagos State alone.
1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
This project is narrow in
some ways stated below:
Cannot automatically generate
ATM centre‘s status rather employ the ability of the feedback giving by the
user.
Limited only to smart phone.
10 ATM centres in Lagos
State.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
HTML CODE: –
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a type of computer language
that is primarily used for files that are posted on the internet and viewed by
web browsers. HTML files can also be sent via email.
Markup language: – A markup language is a combination of words and symbols which give
instructions on how a document should appear. For example, a tag may indicate
that words are written in italics or bold type.
Web browser:
-A Web browser is a software program that interprets the coding language of the
World Wide Web in graphic form, displaying the translation rather than the
coding. This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by simple point and click
navigation, bypassing the need to know commands used in software languages.