NMAMIT team develops app to withdraw ATM funds through mobile phone

NMAMIT team develops app to withdraw ATM funds through mobile phone

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, July 9, 2012: A team from Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya Memorial Institute of Technology (NMAMIT) has developed an application that can be used to withdraw funds from ATMs from mobile phones through Bluetooth technology.

The team’s intention was to find out an alternative for ATM cards. They, accordingly, created a J2ME app that can be downloaded into a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and used to withdraw money from the ATM.

 

Rakesh Joshi, lecturer at NMAMIT guided this team comprising Sanjay Kumar, Manohar P., Sunil Kumar Aithal, and Nithin P. S. Sanjay said that they used a desktop computer as an ATM.

The app can be used to pay for products and services through a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone. Admitting that the idea was not new, he said that the only unique thing about it was that the team used Bluetooth.

The software comprises a mobile J2ME app, which acts as a client and is to be used by bank customers, who can detect the server through Bluetooth, log into their accounts using their mobile numbers and security codes, and withdraw funds. It also comprises a desktop app in Java, which can read the security code and mobile number and search through the database for the account. If it finds the account, it will deduct the amount and update the database. If it doesn’t find the account, it will send an error message.

The team says that the app can be easily and quickly downloaded, but is not available online at present. Moreover, the app does not address certain security concerns although such security issues can be overcome in future, they say.