Smart parking monitoring software application

Abstract

The paper presents the software application designed to monitor the car parking occupancy rate. The real situations that can be encountered in a parking lot are simulated with the help of a scale model made based on the Raspberry Pi 3 development board. This board connects the existing hardware components on the scale model, the created software applications, and the Cloud Firebase database. The services offered by Firebase use the real-time database and the authentication service. The first is used to store data received from parking sensors and the second to register and authenticate car parking users. The user interface is made within the Android Studio programming environment. The developed applications are the followings: new user account registration, user authentication, parking space reservation, parking entrance, parking space occupation and parking exit. The smart car parking collects real-time information which contributes to diminish the time spent in traffic, decreases pollution, and why not, significantly reduces of the stress of the drivers.