SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE

FINAL YEAR PROJECT SPECIFICATION 2000/2001

STUDENT:		Chris Lacey

PROGRAMME:	ESEMS

SUPERVISOR:		Mr. P J Miller / Prof. K J Blow

TITLE OF PROJECT:	Development of an E-commerce site with smartcard payment mechanism

AIM OF PROJECT:

To design and create a fully operational “E-commerce” web site, which will allow users to select items or services for purchase, place these in a virtual “shopping basket”, and then complete the transaction by allowing value to be debited from an electronic wallet held on a smartcard.  Users will be required to have a suitable smartcard reader attached to their computer in order to facilitate this.

OBJECTIVES:

1)	To create, or obtain specifications for, a suitable smartcard wallet applet.
2)	To develop software which will permit secure transfer of value between smartcards across the Internet.
3)	To create a functioning E-commerce web site with appropriate user interface.
4)	To integrate the smartcard system with the web browser/server at the client/server end to create a complete system.

SCHEDULE OF WORK:

1)	Wallet applet

1.1	To obtain the interface/protocol specifications for the transfer of Mondex electronic cash between cards.  Should this information be unavailable publicly, to develop a card wallet applet from scratch.

2)	Software for value transfer

2.1	To create client and server software which will interface to the smartcard applet and permit the transfer of value between the two wallet applets.
2.2	To ensure a secure system is implemented, suitable for deployment on public networks such as the Internet.

3)	Web site

3.1	To create a database containing details of products/services together with session data relating to items present in particular users’ shopping baskets.
3.2	To create a user-friendly web front end, providing access via any web browser.

4)	Integrated system

4.1	To develop additional software to allow the web browser/server to trigger transfers of value, and ensure the user’s approval is gained before any transactions are completed.

SUPERVISOR	[signed]  ______________________________________________	[date]  __________________

STUDENT	[signed]  ______________________________________________	[date]  __________________