Abstract
Traffic management and car parking on modern cities continues to be a problem both for citizens and for city officials. The increasing number of vehicles flowing into the city drain the existing scarce parking resources, and the increase in time spent looking for a parking spot leads to more congestions, parasitic traffic, whilst augmenting fuel consumption and air pollution. In this paper we present an integrated flexible solution developed to help address this issue, using open hardware and software components to develop a low-cost smart parking system suitable for contemporary metropolitan cities. The smart parking solution is based on Arduino boards for the sensors network and on Raspberry Pi single-board computers for the gateway devices, integrated through specific developed software components and a mobile application for the end-users.
Highlights
It is important to find appropriate solutions capable of improving the quality of the city’s life and IT has helped the creation of a new type of smart cities
This paper presents a fully scalable low-cost open hardware and software smart parking system for parking management in smart cities alternative to existing studies with less flexible and more costly solutions
The system consists of sensor cells, parking gateways, a web-based backend database, and an end-user mobile application
Summary
Modern cities must deal with different problems and challenges. One of the most important challenges of modern cities is the number of vehicles that cross the city borders every day creating major problems that citizens and city authorities have to face on a daily basis. It is important to find appropriate solutions capable of improving the quality of the city’s life and IT has helped the creation of a new type of smart cities This has been regarded as the answer to some of the major city problems and is slowly changing the citizens way of interacting with their cities. As part of the research conducted to address the problem of creating a hardware and software solution for this problem a prototype was developed and will be succinctly described on this paper This prototype integrates hardware components to operate as parking sensors, and gateways that integrate the different parking sensors in a parking area, it includes all the necessary software for the components to operate and communicate with the backend, and a mobile application that is used by end-users to find and give driving directions to existing free parking spots. The tests and results from the developed solution are discussed on the following section, and in the final section of the paper we present some conclusions and point out some future work that needs to be accomplished
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