Developed APIs for communication ports and payment interfaces in real-time applications

Abstract

Most of the mobile devices are generally used for information and/or entertainment, while they are occasionally used as an industrial mobile device. Vendors rarely provide the development of both hardware and software requirements to offer a mobile device platform as a data acquisition and control industrial communication ports and secured mobile payment interfaces. In this study, Java-based applications programming interfaces (APIs) multiplatform are developed for an industrial mobile device, which possesses infotainment, multimedia features as well, controlling both communication ports and secured mobile payment interfaces in the real-time applications. The developed communication port options of the API might gather information from environment units such as parameters, event and warning messages. The other developed API for payment interfaces provides collecting fare charge. The performances of the developed APIs for the device have been tried out in terms of rendering web pages, energy consumptions, boot time and APIs evaluation. The industrial mobile device having the developed APIs might be used as a data acquisition system for real world applications such as public transportation, maintaining service device and a smart tourism guide mobile device with payment options. The developed APIs have been tested for communicating and fare collecting in smart public transportation for a real application.