Smart campus phase one: Smart parking sensor network

Smart Parking Sensor Network project aims to develop a low cost sensor based parking system to map the usage of parking areas. This system consists of sensor nodes which can detect the occupancy of parking space; relay nodes to communicate between sensor nodes and the server; server application to get data from the relay nodes and send data to mobile application; and a mobile application to display the parking areas and the occupancy of the parking areas on a map. The vehicle detection sensor node was developed with low cost and low power sensors and components. The vehicle detection sensor node was designed with magnetic sensor and a distance sensor. The magnetic sensor detects the presence of the vehicle and the distance sensor clarifies it. The mobile application was developed using Android and the server application is hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services). The tests performed using our system shows promising results, which are presented in this paper.