SmartRestaurant - A Report on the Development of a NFC-Based Mobile Application

Vanda Rosa, Isabel Brito, João Paulo Barros

2013

Abstract

This paper presents as a case study our experience gathered along the development of a mobile application prototype to be used by restaurant clients. The application, named SmartRestaurant, uses Near Field Communication (NFC) connectivity and runs on Android. It can be used in restaurants to load its menu, and other information provided by the restaurant, through scanning a NFC tag with a mobile phone or other NFC enabled device. Additionally, the application should allow users to store and share data with others. The paper presents the lessons learned during the development process used in this case study, including the functionalities already implemented, the future work, and also the process successes and failures.

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in Harvard Style

Rosa V., Brito I. and Barros J. (2013). SmartRestaurant - A Report on the Development of a NFC-Based Mobile Application . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-68-6, pages 322-327. DOI: 10.5220/0004567203220327


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft-ea13,
author={Vanda Rosa and Isabel Brito and João Paulo Barros},
title={SmartRestaurant - A Report on the Development of a NFC-Based Mobile Application},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={322-327},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004567203220327},
isbn={978-989-8565-68-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2013)
TI - SmartRestaurant - A Report on the Development of a NFC-Based Mobile Application
SN - 978-989-8565-68-6
AU - Rosa V.
AU - Brito I.
AU - Barros J.
PY - 2013
SP - 322
EP - 327
DO - 10.5220/0004567203220327