A Prototype of IoT-Based Real Time Smart Street Parking System for Smart Cities

Abstract

Smart city is a vision that aims to integrate multiple information and communication solutions to residents with essential services like smart parking inside the all streets. Today, the parking systems has been changed by new advances that are empowering urban communities to diminish levels of congestions altogether. Internet of Things (IoT) is also new advancement which helps in detection of vehicle occupancy and congestion by basic intelligence and computational capability to make a smart parking system. The main motivation of using IoT for parking is to collect the data easily for free parking slots. This work presents the prototype of IoT-based Real Time smart street Parking System (IoT-based RTSSPS) with accessibility of data to make it simpler for residents and drivers to locate a free parking slot at the streets. Firstly, this work presents the introduction of IoT for smart parking with technology backgrounds, challenges of accessing IoT and database. Secondly, this work presents the prototype design of IoT-based RTSSPS with architecture and algorithm. IoT-based RTSSPS architecture is divided into three parts IoT-based WSN centric smart street parking module, IoT-based data centric smart street parking module and IoT-based cloud centric smart street parking module with street parking algorithm, evaluation and future directions.