Cost Efficient Automatic Car Parking Facility towards Smart City

Abstract

The idea of smart cities has recently gained a lot of traction. Both residents and city authorities keep struggling with traffic control and parking in urban cities. The growing number of cars entering the city depletes the city’s limited parking services, and the increased spending time searching for a parking spot contributes to more traffic, as well as increased fuel usage and emissions. The paper consists of an integrated, cost-effective parking method for smart cities, in which cars are parked and driven to the best location or block for them, and the parking area is completely used with minimal segmentation or empty space. The smart parking system is a relatively new system that creates a platform for booking parking spaces and effectively using those spaces. The sensor system is based on Arduino boards, and the gateway applications are built on Node MCU single-board computers, all of which are connected together using custom software systems and a mobile app for end-users. With the help of a smartphone application, users can reserve a parking spot in advance.