Smart IoT Notification System for Efficient In-City Parking

Abstract

This paper presents an intelligent distributed IoT system which was designed to automatically detect, count and notify drivers about empty parking spaces in major cities. This proposed system has two operating phases: (i) continuous detection and counting of empty spots in the monitored far-apart parking lots, and (ii) instantaneous driver notification through a lightweight MQTT publish/subscribe mechanism. Among the numerous features of this notification system is its reliance on only information collected from the preinstalled IP cameras; no other apparatus installation or maintenance such as ground sensors is required. To check the proper operation of our solution, we have implemented a small-scale version of it and assessed its performance while considering different deep learning frameworks. The obtained results confirmed the proper operation and efficiency of our system in terms of notifications. The conducted experiments have also confirmed the ease of deployment and ease of extension of this system.