A group of students from Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya
Memorial Institute of Technology (NMAMIT), Nitte, has developed an
application for money transactions with an ATM through a mobile phone
using Bluetooth.
The aim of the project was to
withdraw money from an ATM through a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone
using a J2ME application in the mobile phone for accessing the ATM. It
aimed at replacing use of ATM (credit and debit) cards.
While
Rakesh Joshi, lecturer, guided the group, the students who participated
in the project were Manohara P, Nithin P.S., Sunil Kumar Aithal, and
Sanjay Kumar.
Sanjay told that the
group used a desktop computer as an ATM. The application allows the user
to pay a shopkeeper from a mobile phone. (The recipient must have
Bluetooth and the application on his computer.) He said the idea was not
new but the group had done the application differently by using
Bluetooth.
The software included two modules. One was
a mobile application in J2ME, which acted as a client and was to be
used by the customers of the bank. The application allowed the customer
to detect the server via Bluetooth and log into his account using a
security code and mobile number.
He withdraws money
from his particular account using this mobile application. Two, there is
a desktop application in Java and it acts as a server. It reads the
security code, mobile number, and searches the database for a specific
account. If the account is found, it deducts the amount requested by the
customer and updates the database. Otherwise, it sends an error
message.
The project can be modified easily, said the
group members. Future changes could be implemented such as peer-to-peer
mobile transactions and storage of money in mobile phones.
The
application can be downloaded within seconds. At present, however, it
is not online, said Sanjay, one of the group members. But security
concerns are there during transactions. Future development of the
application might overcome such issues, said the members.-The Hindu-
