MOBIL-ID Reader

What is MOBIL-ID?

A Python web service & embedded reader for Apple PassKit

The MOBIL-ID project is an engineering systems capstone project for Oklahoma Christian University. The team’s mission statement is to create a mobile platform front-end to Oklahoma Christian University’s user management system. Students and Faculty will use their mobile ID to gain chapel attendance, enter the university cafeteria, and pay using Eagle Bucks.

MOBIL-ID Reader

The MOBIL-ID Reader is a slave device responsible for scanning MOBIL-ID passes. It captures the QR data from a scanned pass and sends it in a GET request to the MOBIL-ID Server. The MOBIL-ID Server returns the associated user ID number. The MOBIL-ID Reader then hands the ID number to the transactional system via the USB connection. Below is a guide to creating a fully functional MOBIL-ID Reader.

MOBIL-ID Server

The MOBIL-ID Server is a Python web service responsible for creating, deploying, and updating passes using Apple PassKit & Google Pay API. It tracks the pass’s complete lifecycle. When a user requests a pass, the server gets the user's data from OC’s database, creates a new pass, and signs it before delivering it to the user. It keeps a log of every pass it creates. When a user adds the pass to Apple Wallet, the pass will send a registration request to our server. The server will log the device id and pass relationship. When users data is changed, the MOBIL-ID server then knows what device to send the update push notification to. If a user deletes a pass of their device, the server will receive a request to delete the pass and it will be deleted from the server’s database and no longer receive updates. The user will also recieve real-time push notifications when pass data has change. 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and is maintained by Oklahoma Christian University.

View the MOBIL-ID project on GitHub