Wireless Food Ordering System Based on Web Services

Current wireless communications enable people to easily exchange information, while web services provide loosely-coupled and platform-independent ways of linking applications across the Internet or Intranet. This paper presents an integration of wireless communication technologies and web services technologies to realize a wireless food ordering system. In this system, it implements wired and wireless data access to the servers and food ordering functions through both desktop PCs and mobile devices such as PDAs over a wired/wireless integrated local area network. To sure the security of the system, the secure web service architecture and some security strategies to ensure mobile communication security are discussed. Web services-based wireless applications on mobile devices provide a means of convenience, improving efficiency and accuracy for restaurants by saving time, reducing human errors, etc.