project-proposal-2025

Project Proposal

Title

EcoCharge - Smart Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Network

Abstract

EcoCharge plans to make a smart charging network for electric cars that is scalable, safe, and highly available. This will make charging easier for EV owners all over Australia. Scalability, flexibility, and security are some of the most important quality factors for the project’s success. These features make sure that EcoCharge can handle more users, keep it accessible, and keep user data and infrastructure safe from cyber danger

Author

Name: Ojas Ahuja
Student Number: 47462153

Functionality

EcoCharge will offer the following full system functionality:

• User registration and secure authentication.
• Real-time availability of charging stations with geographical mapping.
• Reservation system allowing users to book charging slots in advance.
• Integration with payment gateways for seamless transactions.
• Automatic billing and invoicing.
• Analytics dashboard for users detailing charging history, expenses, and usage metrics.
• Remote station diagnostics and reporting for administrators.
• APIs for third-party integration (navigation apps, car software).

The project is fun and engaging due to its real-world impact on sustainability, convenience for users, and challenging technical requirements.

Scope

The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) will focus on delivering:

• User authentication (signup, login, secure logout).
• Real-time view and search for available charging stations.
• Reservation management allowing booking and cancellation.
• Basic analytics for charging history.
• Integration of a secure payment method (Stripe).
• A single API endpoint for third-party integrations (for basic station status queries).

Quality Attributes

The most crucial attributes for EcoCharge are:

Scalability

Users can’t charge their cars when the charging network isn’t available, so it needs to be open all the time. EcoCharge will try to be available 99.9% of the time. Monitoring with pings, load simulations, failover testing, and disaster recovery evaluations are all types of testing methods. System uptime, response latency, error rate, and recovery time from problems will all be measured.

Availability

The charging network needs to be always available because users can’t charge their cars when it’s not. EcoCharge wants to be available 99.9% of the time. Some testing methods are load simulations, failover testing, ping monitoring, and emergency recovery assessments. Uptime, response latency, error rate, and recovery time from breakdowns will all be measured.

Security

Security is very important because user data and financial dealings are very private. EcoCharge will use strong encryption, two-factor verification, and other strict security measures. Penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and code checks will all be part of the testing. Rates of successful authentication, rates of finding vulnerabilities, and the amount of protected data will all be used as metrics.

Evaluation

EcoCharge’s quality attributes will be evaluated through:

• Scalability: Tools like Apache JMeter or k6 can be used to simulate more users, which lets you see how the system scales in different situations and find its highest throughput and bottlenecks.
• Availability: The production environment is constantly being watched and logged, and automatic alerts are sent out when there is downtime or a drop in performance. Recovery mechanisms will be tested on a regular basis to make sure failover situations work as planned.
• Security: Regular security audits and penetration tests, both automatic and manual, will be done to check the encryption methods, make sure two-factor authentication works, and look for holes like injection attacks and cross-site scripting.

The evaluation results will be written down and compared to the benchmarks. Changes will be made over and over again until the project’s quality standards are met.