Last Name 1

Student’s Name

Professor’s Name

Course Number

Date

Towers Project ERD Description

Given the nature of this automation, we decided to break our information into 5 entities:

Member, Transaction, Cars, Accounts, and Buildings. The member entity has the related

information to the user, such as the identification of the user, its first and last names, and the

contact information (phone number and email). It is also possible to find useful data like the

member address. The Member entity is connected to the Cars and Account tables, which identify

the user as a student and verifies the car connected to his/her account. It is important to highlight

that one user may have more than one car associated with his/her account. However, a student

account can belong to only one user.

The entity Cars stores information regarding the registered vehicles, identified by their

identification (VIN). Other information to identify the vehicles are also registered: the color,

year, make, model, and license plate are stored as a form to be sure that the car inside the

building is not a stolen, illegal possession of a malicious person or group.

The Account table, related to each user, is a mandatory relationship that provides the

database with essential information to identify the billing information related to each user. It

contains the email as the primary key, identifying the user, the membership status, the monthly

fee associated with each type of account, and the order history. This table is associated with the

Transaction entity in a non-mandatory relationship.

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Transaction is an entity that stores and controls the orders related to each account. It

contains the historical information of the transactions performed in every account, providing

information such as the order identification, the identification of the user, the start and stop time

of each order, the order status, as well as the space number occupied by the car associated to the

member.

The last entity, Buildings, stores information about the buildings that belong to this

company. Each building is identified by an ID number, its location, the total capacity, and

informs the available capacity at the moment of the car’s entrance.