Iot based car parking management system with an application program interface

Abstract

With the population on the rise, urban areas congestion continues to become a major transportation problem. As number of cars increases, the demand for parking spaces rises, thus causing insufficient availability of parking spaces. This paper presents a new cloud based parking management system implemented on the Internet-of-Things technology network architecture that increases user convenience and parking management.Drivers are able to view parking availability online, and proceed to reserve a parking space. The parking system is designed based on zone control architecture using NodeMCU, thus allowing easy management and implementation. An eight hexadecimal character is generated for both entry and exit access codes, and sent to the driver's email and mobile phone via SMS. Parking information are relayed and stored in the server using RESTful API implemented using Laravel PHP technology. Parking spot information like entry and exit times can be requested through the API.