A Novel Location-Centric IoT-Cloud Based On-Street Car Parking Violation Management System in Smart Cities.

Thanh Dinh,Younghan Kim

doi:10.3390/s16060810

Abstract

Nowadays, in big cities, parking management is a critical issue from both the driver’s side and the city government’s side. From the driver’s side, how to find an available parking lot in a city is a considerable concern. As a result, smart parking systems recently have received great interest, both in academia and industry. From the city government’s side, how to manage and distribute such a limited public parking resource efficiently to give every visitor a fair chance of finding an on-street parking lot is also a considerable concern. However, existing studies of smart parking management focus only on assisting the driver’s side to find available parking spaces. This study aims to raise a new perspective on such smart parking management and to propose a novel location-centric IoT-cloud-based parking violation management system. The system is designed to assist authoritative officers in finding parking violations easily and recommends the least cost path for officers so that officers can achieve their highest productivity in finding parking violations and issuing parking tickets. Experimental results show that the system not only improves the productivity of officers in finding parking violations and issuing tickets, but also helps reduce the traveling cost of officers and to reduce the average violation period of violating cars considerably.

Highlights

Nowadays, applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) to urban environments are receiving great interest because they help push city governments to utilize ICT solutions in managing public affairs, enabling the so-called smart city [1]
This paper proposes a novel location-centric IoT-cloud-based parking violation management system to assist parking officers in managing and handling parking violations efficiently, which is one of the first attempts in this direction to enable the so-called smart city
Due to the importance of parking violation management, this paper investigates a novel perspective of smart parking management systems to assist government officers to manage parking violations efficiently

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Introduction

Applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) to urban environments are receiving great interest because they help push city governments to utilize ICT solutions in managing public affairs, enabling the so-called smart city [1]. In the trend of smart cities [1], smart parking systems [2,3,4,5] recently have received great interest. Current studies on this topic focus on supporting drivers to find an available parking space [6,7]. The Internet of Things (i.e., wireless sensor networks) is normally used to provide parking sensing service for managing parking lots, detecting available parking lots and increasing the probability of finding vacant parking spaces or even reserving a parking lot [6,8,9,10]

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