Smart Parking

Introduction

Nowadays, the notion of smart parking become a very significant role in transport which continue a major problem in most metropolises around the world. In accordance with the progression of the Internet of things, the concept of smart parking now suggests an important aspect. Regular aspect is becoming in the arena of IoT to increase the performance of city infrastructure. Most attention, especially in developing regions resulting in massive delays, turn traffic congestion, increased fuel wastage, monetary losses limited parking lots continue to remain a major problem. In this paper, we present various performances as far as the smart parking system is mainly debated which are already implemented. For instance, IoT-based cloud system with cloud IP-camera, smart parking application. Smart parking application provides information about driver’s entrance time and exit time, checking for the availability of parking place and booking. Furthermore, application illustrates real-time view.

The transition to the new evolution of Internet of Things (IoT), gives us a chance to make a Smart Parking. However, Smart parking is a good example of an ordinary citizen of how the IoT will be efficiently and competently used in our daily living environments to be responsible for facilities management to different consumers. Any native may use the mobile application, a computer having the network to access the smart parking application from anywhere in the world to find a free parking spot in the city and get to know the which parking spot is still available. The design of the smart parking project shown in Figure 1. It provides efficient car parking management through remote parking spot localization and fast car retrieval. Moreover, a genuinely smart parking system should be not only alert of the occupancy position of each car parking space, but also be able to guide the user to it. Every process should be with no human intervention.

Fig. 1. The design of smart parking project.

System Structure

The middleware will collect the status from parking gateway. It will then calculate the parking spaces, which are free and which are busy. When a new customer enters the parking lot, the middleware will interact with the user’s mobile application. The middleware sends the parking map and location of free parking spaces to guide the user. However, the user should not go to find and to a certain destination. The problems that face server will include a dual-protocol compatibility. As the server will communicate with the gateway and the mobile application, it will have to work on a real-time communication with the server to find an available place or location in the parking lot. Otherwise, for effective service in the parking lot attached sensor that detects vehicles in the parking lot. Thus, the sensor sends the data to the gateway using MQQT protocol.

Fig. 2. System Architecture

Gateway device

These gateway devices used to collect status from the sensors, as network status, network configuration, etc. then send them to the server, the gateway has individual sensor nodes. If nodes connect by other gateways, it cannot be allowed until administrator allows it, due to the security issue. Gateways operate on wireless technology for transmitting status. Smart parking gateway device used to gather evidence for multiple sensors. Also, the gateway device has the function of a transmitter that provides video data in real time for storage inside the cloud in Fig 2. Consequently, smart parking gateway memory storage has limited.

Sensor Device

In our project, we use the infrared proximity (IR) sensor for detecting vehicles on-site parking. The sensor placed on top of the ground, shown in Fig 3. Infrared (IR) sensors are widely used as a proximity sensor and avoid obstacles in IoT devices. They offer lower cost and faster response time than other sensors, such as an ultrasonic sensor. The IR sensor has an analog output signal that varies at 15-sm to 150-sm with a power voltage between 4.5 and 5.5 VDC, for the power supply purpose used as a solar panel.

Fig. 3. Infrared proximity sensor and operating procedure of IR sensor.

How to get data from server?

Application

Architecture pattern is an essential part of computer science. However, this is the only way to save a project clean, expansible and testable. The patterns are acknowledged solutions that have been developed over the years and are considered industry standards. They are constantly evolving, and in the Android SDK, the regular Model View Controller pattern is steadily being dropped for the Model View Presenter (MVP). Our Android application built based on clean MVP architecture. Why we choose MVP architecture for building smart parking application: Most popular Android applications simply use the View-model architecture. The application includes various screens which are Map, Main, Timetable, Find near parking screen. In the main screen, we can see a list of cars which are being detected by cameras in Figure 4. By clicking items, we have a chance to see customer information which was a shown in Figure 5.

Fig. 4. List of cars on Application. Fig. 5.Customer information.

In Map screen shows cameras which are detecting cars and available parking places in Figure 6. By clicking cameras, we can see cars through IP camera which was a provided in Figure 7. To find a parking space, simply click on the ‘Find Parking’ button to show all parking locations nearby in Figure 8.

Fig. 6. Cameras on Application Fig. 7. Cars through IP camera

Fig. 8. Find parking place.

App Operations

Conclusion

Intelligent parking and road traffic control systems have always been at the head of building smart cities. In this paper, we reflect the problematic of parking spaces and provide IoT-based on cloud integrated intelligent parking system. The system benefits from smart parking go far beyond avoiding unnecessary circled neighborhoods. It also enables the development of the city fully integrated multimodal intelligent transport systems. Finally, this article is critical for new researchers in the field of innovation of new technologies to cope with the problems that are faced by the drivers currently available. Real-time parking lot via streaming Android app is highly recommended, which will be easy to help drivers to distribute the vacant parking spaces.