Intelligent IOT based Car Parking using An Android Application

Abstract

Parking system is a critical arena that requires a revolutionary change with the growth of technology that is needed to support this change. This paper presents the design and implementation of the prototype developed of the car parking automation system based on IOT, that provide robust searching and booking feature of a parking lot for a vehicle owner. The proposed system consists of IR sensors, embedded web-server, and a mobile application. Low cost sensor network is deployed on the prototype which represents a parking area. Initially, the existence of objects being sensed provides significant data for parking slot detection. Secondly, sensor quality has a material correlation with the performance by the sensors deployed. From this, we propose a) the development of a topological sensor detection system b) Traditional server rather than cloud system that allows local data processing c) Application based UI interaction with the users of the system. Keyword: Android application, IOT, Data Analytics, Web server, Arduino, IR proximity sensors, Object Detection, Visual studio I.INTRODUCTION In today's highly traffic congested cities, parking becomes a tedious task for the vehicle drivers consuming precious time and energy of the drivers. Eventually, it also results in fuel wastage and air pollution. According to recent reports and statistics, it is observed that traffic generated due to vehicles searching for parking spaces, takes up to 40% of the total traffic. Considering the situation, various efficient parking methodologies have been suggested. Few mechanisms used video camera sensors to gather information of the parking spaces [3], [14], although it's an expensive reform to execute along with certain drawbacks resulting from the transmission issues in wireless networks. Today, wireless sensors have emerged successfully due to its simple and low expense solutions [5], [6], [8]. Sensor network is an integration of tiny devices which have wireless connections. For our purpose, INFRARED sensors are used which usually are low cost, user friendly and have fast obstacle detection via infrared reflection. This wireless sensor network is useful to many fields including environmental supervision, security purposes, home and workplace surveillance, agricultural inspections, etc. As it observed that these sensors are used in many application, we used it for the detection of free parking slots. The proposed system, runs on an android application which is developed to offer an interface to the user for reservation. The user can select the desired parking space and confirm the booking. The functionality of pre-booking a slot makes it quite easy and flexible for the user. Facilities like registration, login and online payment are embedded in the application to make it completely automated. At the backend, the user details are updated on the database. A web server is integrated to pass the user information to the database. Moreover, the entry and exit time of the vehicle driver is recorded for the purpose of payment....

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