IoT Based Smart Parking System

Abstract

The idea of smart cities has gained momentum in recent times which is becoming more popular with the upcoming concept of the internet of things. Smart cities particularly aim to use the resources efficiently and integrating with it has increased the productivity and reliability over the technology for the urban infrastructure. IoT can cater to many complex situations and one such problem faced by the commuters in smart cities is of parking as with increasing number of vehicles and scarcity of parking facility and traffic congestion there is a demand of smart parking system which solves this problem. This IoT smart and efficient parking system will not only solve the problems from the consumers perspective but also would solve difficulties faced by the management of these parking lots, with the IoT tapping in this system the consumer will save more time by booking spot prior to his/her arrival at the spot and would reduce time searching for a good spot for parking when actually being at the destination, from the management’s point view it would help in decreasing the manpower requirement used for maintaining such parking lots and would also help them use their resources more efficiently. In this paper, we proposed a smart parking system (IoT enabled) which continuously monitor and check for the available area for parking and engage the area in the particular place it is designed for. This would be the most efficient system designed for the smart cities which would definitely help in the betterment of the traffic conditions that people have been facing over a decade now, Thus the system is designed for optimum utilization of the parking spaces will save time and by these system traffic congestion would be reduced to a greater extent.