IoT based Smart Parking System: A Proposed Algorithm and Model

Today, due to the growth of IoT(Internet of Things) the concept of smart cities has gained considerable popularity. To maximize the productivity and reliability of urban infrastructure consistent efforts are being made in the field of IoT. Many problems such as traffic congestion and road safety are being solved by the use of IoT. Today peoples face a common problem in the parking area to find a free parking slot in cities. In this study, we are designing a Smart Parking System, which will enable the user to find Parking slots in a given parking area. It also avoids unnecessary traveling through filled parking lots. In this paper, the author presents a smart parking system with the help of IoT over Wi-Fi. This intelligent parking system consists of an IoT module that helps to track the availability of each single vacant parking space. The author used an Arduino Uno, which can be embedded over the Wi-Fi module to establish a connection to the internet. This technology helps to transfer the data live. In this smart parking system, with the help of digital IR sensors, the system gets the status regarding the parking slot status, whether it is occupied or vacant. This sensor sends the collected data to the microcontroller. Latter the data are processed, and the status of parking slots is updated in the central database. The IR sensors need to be deployed in the appropriate locations so that the system can cover all the parking slots. Each parking slot is identified with a unique id to identify them on the network.