Revealing Business Process for NFC Reservation-based Parking System as a Combined Business Process Pujianto Yugopuspito, Sutrisno Cahya, and Frans Panduwinata Informatics, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang 15811, Indonesia Email: {pujianto.yugopuspito, sutrisno.fik, frans.panduwinata}@uph.edu Abstract —This paper presents a business process of reservation for parking system. A car can park at a certain parking lot that already reserved in advanced. Furthermore a given technology to be implemented. This paper concerned the development of the process of creating a reservation-based parking system in a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). The main business process parking will be combined with a reservation-based, hotel like booking system. This business process is a combined business process, instead of merged business process, because it concerns the possibility of a parallel join of two business processes. A combine algorithm is proposed, and finally NFC technology is added into the baseline business process. This reveals the business process of NFC reservation-based parking system. Index Terms—business process, reservation, car parking, model and notation, algorithm I. INTRODUCTION Several methods of smart parking system and their embedded technology are discussed in [1]. They categorized smart parking into Parking Guidance and Information System (PGIS), Transit-based Information System (TBIS), Smart payment system, e-Parking, and Automated-system. PGIS is formed by four major components: information disseminating mechanism, information gathering mechanism, a control center and telecommunication networks. TBIS is similar to PGIS with concentration on guiding user to park-and-ride facilities. Smart payment system is implemented in the effort to overcome the limitation of conventional payment methods by introducing new technologies. e-Parking provides an alternative for users to enquire the availability and/or reserve a parking space at their desire parking facility. Automated parking involves the user of computer-controlled mechanism, which allows users to drive the car to the bay, lock it and let the machine automatically place it in the allocated space. No detail business processes are included in Ref [1]. Manuscript received August 15, 2015; revised October 22, 2015. This project was supported by Competitive Grant Directorate of Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia, was managed by Universitas Pelita Harapan, No. 028/LPPM-UPH/III/2015. Reservation-based Smart Parking System [2] showed that a correct parking policy has the potential to simplify the operations of parking systems, as well as alleviate traffic congestion cause by parking searching. A simulation has been made that average driving distance was constantly achieved even in the peak hours. Nonetheless the business process description was excluded. A real reservation-based parking system has been implemented in several airports in many cities in United Stated, Canada and United Kingdom [3, 4], as well in Germany [5]. The reservation can be simplified in a single web portal system run by third party or integrated within the airport web portal system. Business processes are implicitly depicted, but not in a clear Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN). In Indonesia, the arrangement of parking lot is covered by government regulation [6]. This regulation did not include any information of the business process. Furthermore reservation-based park system is not a clear business yet. A common problem in a business area is not integrated in one parking-system. Current practices, the space availability cannot be informed to the users, before they entrance a parking lot. This paper aim to reveals the reservation-based parking system in Business Process Model and Notation, as a combine two business-processes: common reservation system that derives from hotel like booking system, and common parking system. Both systems are referred to the Indonesian custom. We expect to answer a generic reservation-based parking system. Business Process Model and Notation will be used, as de-facto business process tool with BPMN 2.0 standard [7]. Theoretically, the combined business process can be a case study to create other domain of business from a given set of business processes [8] or a method for analyzing an integration business processes [9]. Such the previous project on automatic license plate recognition [10] can be implemented. The organization of this paper as follows: basic system description of booking system and parking system in Section II, then the possibility of combination booking and parking activities, including the combine business process algorithm in Section III. Section IV describes the 23 Journal of Advances in Information Technology Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2016 © 2016 J. Adv. Inf. Technol. doi: 10.12720/jait.7.1.23-28 the Near Field Communication (NFC) is