MULTISOURCE INTELLIGENT PARKING ASSISTANT

Abstract

Problem searching for a parking space is time-consuming and highly relevant both in Ukraine and abroad. Time spent searching for a parking space leads to excessive traffic, more traffic jams, air pollution and increased fuel consumption. These factors also affect the daily stress levels of drivers. Due to this, the process of finding a parking space should be fast and convenient. At the same time, there has been significant development of real estate in Lviv over the past few years. Accordingly, the need for organizing the process of parking cars of residents of residential areas is growing. This paper presents the results of the development of an application for a quick and convenient search for a parking space. A review of similar software applications was conducted. Proposed solutions use various technologies to solve the problem of searching for a free parking space including IoT, sensors, machine learning for image recognition. Even though they solve the problem of searching for a free parking space, most of them can be expensive to implement, maintain, they don’t provide the ability to work with different data sources. An activity diagram of system is presented and it shows two main flows of the system: displaying the current state of parking spaces and displaying parking space by the number of the car entering the territory of the complex. System consists of three modules. The first module is responsible for working with different data sources, storing the status of parking spaces, processing requests. Image processing module is responsible for determining the occupied and free parking spaces from the image. The third module is responsible for the correct display of parking spaces and their statuses. It is also demonstrated how the application works with different data sources and how exceptions are handled. The system works correctly and has a сlear interface. The parking assistant is a great helper and significantly reduces the time required to find a free parking space.