S. Park: A Smart Parking Approach

Abstract

Being a developing nation, India faces a major issues that is the huge population which is now becoming too large for the spaces available. With increased living standards and affordability, the number of cars owned today has exponentially increased. This has led to the emergence of a major concern of proper management of available spaces while keeping up with the pace of revolutionizing lives by utilizing the SMART way. “SMART PARKING” aims at addressing this plight by providing a mobile-based platform to reserve a parking slot before arriving at desired location. The user is provided with a real-time availability map of the parking space showing occupancy. Depending on the traffic and time required to reach the parking slot, reservation is dynamically altered. It provides the feature of sending alerts based on live tracking to accommodate the unpredictability of reaching the destination due to traffic and adapt the booking timings accordingly by calculation buffer time. In cases where user comes without a booking, slot is provided based on how many vacant parking slots are available. The occupancy of the user’s car in the slot is analyzed and utilized to predict the nature of booking to help for future purposes. Monthly subscriptions are provided and user is notified for renewals or updating.