An Application of Wireless and Internet technologies for Convenient Store's E-Commerce
Apiwat Sangnoree · ITC-CSCC :International Technical Conference on Circuits Systems, Computers and Communications · 2006
In Electronic Convenient Store, customers need automatic purchase-sale system that is workable anytime and anyplace. This paper proposes WAP-based automatic purchase-sale system for Convenient Store’s ECommerce to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in local competitive sale and energy saving by ordering goods via client’s mobile phone. This system comprises of client, WAP gateway and server units. The modification of PHP, Visual Basic and Mysql database which used world wide for Internet system, WML in wireless protocol are employed to create client-WAP gateway and WAP gateway-server interfaces. Stock control, product sale and bill processing units with multimedia are provided at the server side in order to automatically handle purchase and sale whenever and wherever the customers access. To evaluate the performance of proposed system, we performed simulation and experiments by on-line via www.utccmart.com domain. The results reveal the proposed system is workable and mean satisfactory from sample customers.