ONLINE ELECTRIC BIKE RENTAL SERVICE

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 CONTENT

 INTRODUCTION
 SCOPE OF INNOVATION
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INTRODUCTION

This project is designed to be used for renting electric bike to customers. It is an

online system through which customer can view available bike, register, view
profile and book electric bike in the city.

1. ELECTRIC BIKE:- The electric bike is a bike which is driven the help of
battery which is coupled to electric motor. Energy crisis is one of the major
concerns in today’s world due to fast depleting resources of petrol, diesel
and natural gas. In combination with this, environmental decay is an
additional factor which is contributing to the depletion of resources which is
an alarming notification. Our project has the solution for this above perilous
problems. The system which we innovated is the Electric Bike. This project
has various benefits both to the members of the team and also external
benefits thereby making awareness of using alternative modes of transport.
The Electric Bike which works on the battery that is powered by the motor is
the general mode of transport for a local trip. The solar panels can be
alternative source for this by adding it to the system. The Electric bike which
will be running on battery, the power is supplied by the motor, thereby
supplying this power to drive the other gear components. The main purpose
of using this E-bike is that it is user friendly, economical and relatively
cheap. The efficiency of this system undeniable compared to conventional
modes of transport. E-bike comprises the features like high mobility
efficiency, compact, electrically powered, comfortable riding experience,
and light weight vehicle. E-bike is the most versatile future vehicle
considering its advantages. Electric motorcycles and scooters are plug-in
electric vehicles with two or three wheels. The electricity is stores on board
in a rechargeable battery, which drives one or more electric motors.
2. RENTAL :- A bike rental is a vehicle that can be used temporarily for a fee
during a specified period. Getting a rental bike helps people get around
despite the fact they do not have access to their own personal vehicle or don't

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 own a vehicle at all. The individual who needs a bike must contact a rental
bike company and contract out for a vehicle. This system increases customer
retention and simplify vehicle and staff management. At this point, this
person has to supply some information such as; dates of rental, and type of
car. After these details are worked out, the individual renting the car must
present a valid Identification Card.
3. ONLINE SERVICE :- The online bike rental system integrated with SMS
notification will be provided and supported the customer for the reservation,
assist management in knowing rental car inventory at a specified time and
notify the customers about the availability of the car reserved, which support
the satisfactory service to customer and support the company’s operational
processes. With the growing popularity of mobile phones and SMS, the
technology should be seriously considered because most people have high
usage of mobile technologies. It becomes a need of the generation as it
makes the work faster and hazel free.

SCOPE AND INNOVATION

This project traverses a lot of areas ranging from business concept
to computing field, and required to perform several researches to be
able to achieve the project objectives.
The area covers include:

 Car rental industry: This includes study on how the car rental
business is being done, process involved and opportunity that
exist for improvement.
 Technology used for the development of the application.
 General customers as well as the company’s staff will be able
to use the system effectively.
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 Web-platform means that the system will be available for
access 24/7 except when there is a temporary server issue
which is expected to be minimal.
 Promotes greater use of less polluting and energy consuming
mode of transportation.
 Promotes e-bikes and assess interest in them as a mode of
urban transportation
 Environment friendly: there will be no omission of pollution
 To produce a web-based system that allow customer to
register and reserve car online
 For the company to effectively manage their car rental
business.
 To ease customer’s task whenever they need to rent a car.
 Eco-friendly: The monitoring of the vehicle activity and the
overall business becomes easy and includes the least of paper
work.
 The software acts as an office that is open 24/7.
 It increases the efficiency of the management at offering
quality services to the customers.
 It provides custom features development and support with the
software.
 This online car rental solution is fully functional and flexible.
 It is very easy to use.
 This online car rental system helps in back office
administration by streamlining and standardizing the
procedures.
 It saves a lot of time, money and labour.
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Any person who is not economically strong to buy electric vehicle,
can easily have the benefit to ride electric vehicle. Also who are
planning to buy electric bike can use this and have their opinion after
use. College students, working people or the persons who daily uses
public transport, can rent our electric bike for transportation daily, as
public transport emits pollution, this step of theirs will help in
reducing the pollution.
It’s a rental service so the burden of buying electric bike is eliminated.
And the concept that riding electric vehicle is costly will also get
eliminated. And a broader concept of using electric in every field can
be implemented into our society.

FEASIBILITY

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DESCRIPTION
METHODOLOGY:-The web-based car rental system integrated
with SMS technology has a very user-friendly interface. By using this
system, employees can manage bookings, payment, vehicle issues and
SMS notification to the customers within a few clicks only. The new
data can be added or an existed data can be edited or deleted too by
administrators. Thus, there is no delay in the availability of any
information, whether needed, can be captured very quickly and easily.
For security purposes, all customers need to create a new account
before logging in or he/she can log into the system with his/her
created account before they can make a reservation for a car. Then,
the customer will be notified the availability of the car reserved
through SMS. This system becomes very helpful for employees,
administrator and customers.

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 FIGURE.1

WORKING OF ONLINE BOKING:- The Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) was used to develop the web-based system and SMS
notification. SDLC is a framework that describes all activities and
processes in a software development project. The process is
associated with the waterfall model which consisted of five phases
such as planning, analysis, design, development, and evaluation.
i. Planning.
In this phase, all information, data and problems about the project
were gathered by read articles, journal, and thesis from previous
research. From the information gathered, all the requirements and
opportunities were recognized. The aims to find the core problems
and constraints occur on the current car rental system and to formulate
goals of analysis construction, and system development that focuses
on online car rental system and SMS technology.

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ii. Analysis.
Analysed the current car rental system management workflow, looked
for problems occurs in the current car rental system, car rental
procedures and car rental data processing. Besides, the activities
included were the identification of the hardware and software
requirement in the development system, scope of project, schedule of
activities such as Gantt chart and the total budget.
iii. Design.
In this phase, the researcher designed the requirement needed in
system development. Included were the system components, system
architecture, contextual diagram, data flow diagram, entity
relationship diagram, user interface design and system flowchart.
iv. Development
Layouts of interfaces for the web-based development were created
using HTML and PHP coding through Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 and
notepad++. PHP language is used to execute the system and MySQL
is used for the database, while Apache runs as a web server software
using Xampp package. Then, SMS Gateway script by iSMSwas
embedded in the web-based to make the system able to send the
message to the customer‟s mobile phone.
v. Evaluation
Debugging and testing of the program for fixing bugs or errors of the
design were also done in this phase. Free from error is a necessary
testing to find errors that may occur as in the language error, logic
errors and error analysis program.
Then, the system was evaluated to determine the system performance
and to ensure all requirements accomplished.
User acceptance testing was done by testing the system on users to
ensure that users can perform the tasks respectively.
In the development SMS system notification, the researcher was used
SMS gateways and mobile phone, which are connected to the web-
based system. The SMS gateways served as the gateway to connect
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with the mobile phone users and the system for sending the alert
message automatically to the customers about the availability and the
status of the customers‟ car reservation.
The mobile phone was used for receiving the text messages and alert
messages about the booking status from the system.
The system was tested and conducted to the targeted respondents.
For this study, the targeted respondents were university
studentsaround Perlis. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the
system, user acceptance testing was conducted. A quantitative
approach was taken, and a survey questionnaire was the data
collection instrument for this study. A total of thirty (30) survey
questionnaires were distributed and received for the analysis. The
questionnaire consisted of three (3) parts. The first part was
comprised of user interface design. The second part of the
questionnaire investigates the usefulness, ease of use
andusability, whereas the third part, evaluate the SMS alert function.
The data were analysed using arithmetic mean technique based on the
ranking score value.

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