A Review On Smart Parking Systems in Metropolitan Cities Using Iot
A Review On Smart Parking Systems in Metropolitan Cities Using Iot
Abstract— In today’s world Internet has become an One of the major problems faced by humans in this decade is
integral and important part our daily life. Most of the finding an empty parking space. Researchers have found out
things we do are connected to the internet is some way or that in INDIA, there are about 50,000 vehicles registered
the other. IoT platform enables us to implement wide every day. According to a recent survey conducted by Times
range of applications. It makes use of ultrasonic sensors, of India, it was found that on an average 685 cars are being
controllers, and interpreters to make to make the overall registered on daily basis. Mumbai had nearly 32 lakh vehicles
system smart. One such application is parking system. last November (Fig 1). So we can imagine the rate at which
Smart parking system can be implemented by the use of traffic and the number of vehicles is growing.
IoT technology which provides various services such as
information about parking spaces, the real time
availability and unavailability of slots. Increasing traffic
and number of vehicles, results in mismanagement of
parking spaces. One has to spend a lot of time to find a
vacant slot. IoT technology allows us to overcome such
issues by using various components which helps to make
the parking system efficient. In this paper, we have
reviewed various systems that have been proposed and
analyzed each of them and solved some of the issues that
were encountered in these papers.
WORKING
Figure 6: Context aware dynamic parking services. information of parking space. It is an improvement of parking
management part of existing ITS infrastructure which can
Context-aware optimization solve the problems mentioned above efficiently.
The context information includes not only road conditions and System structure
the status of the parking spaces, but also the expected duration A) Sensor Networks on the street
of a parking as well. The purpose of the proposed system is to
optimize the best locations for drivers. For the parked To implement this system, we should deploy sensor networks
vehicles, the expected duration of parking can be uploaded to on the street where parking management is needed.
the traffic cloud and the information is shared with the drivers Deployment method can be seen in Fig. 7. It does not need to
simultaneously. In this way, even when the parking garages embed sensors on the road deeply which means low cost.
has no empty slots, drivers still can inquire and get the desired Every sensor detects the presence of vehicle by measuring
services by context-aware optimization. disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. In addition, each
The proposed context-aware dynamic parking service offers sensor has luminous device, such as LED, which indicates the
the solutions to overcome the parking problems faced by the reservation information of the parking space.
people in their daily life and improving the quality of Context-
aware VCPS. Many technologies such as WSN, traffic clouds,
data mining and big data are enabling application scenario to
become reality.
[10] But, due to the shortage of available land per person and
city planning being lagging behind, the problem of parking
difficulty becomes increasingly severe. To reinforce the
management of roadside parking, to call for reasonable
roadside parking and to develop a novel roadside parking Fig 7: System Schematics
management system become an effective means to solve the B. Other Parts of the System
existing problems. Small control centre (i.e., base station), which is located at the
Roadside Parking System and Sensor Networks intersections, is responsible for collecting data from the
Chronologically, the development of roadside parking nearest sensor and judges the state of parking space (i.e.,
management system mainly goes through several stages as vacancy or occupancy). Each small control centre connects to
follows: main control centre through wired network according to mesh
1) Stage of Charging by Manpower: This type of system network topology and architecture. The parking space state
needs to delimit the parking areas and missionaries are information collected by small control centre will be
required to charge and find parking space for drivers. Thus, transmitted to main control centre finally. Main control centre
this system has low efficiency. Although it means a low conducts classification process so that users can query it.
expenditure at first, the cost of manpower is high.
2) Stage of Charging by Parking Meter: Parking meter
system is still the basic element of infrastructure of many 4) System Design
traffic management systems. It requires drivers to find parking A. System Overall Design:
space themselves, but it charges by parking meters. Its In this system, there is a sensor at every parking lot and
advantage is that it leaves out the cost of manpower, but, at the sensor is responsible for detecting the presence of vehicles.
mean time, there are many disadvantages. For example, the Every sensor can communicate with the micro-operating
drivers have to find parking space blindly without any system embedded in the vehicle to identify the information of
navigation information that wastes a lot of time. Furthermore, vehicle. The system detects the presence of vehicles by
installation of parking meters needs a lot of capital devotion measuring the disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field. To use
and affects the city's appearance too. In particular, it is hard to power efficiently, microcontroller in each sensor can switch
solve the problem of high power waste. itself to a dormant state. Microcontroller can wake it up
3) Stage of ITS: Currently, the Intelligent Transportation periodically so that sensor can collect the information of
System (ITS) has been put into run. ITS requires video parking space. As sensor transmits data in a short distance,
cameras to be installed and missionaries watch the picture every sensor communicates with sensors nearby, but several
formed by video camera in control room which is located at sensors can form sensor networks. The sensor networks in the
remote end and judge the condition of parking space according system degrade to a linear network which is beneficial to
to the picture. Its disadvantage is that it can't run reliably when avoiding system choke point of data transmission. Every
the weather is awful, such as rain, fog and snow. Although sensor transmits the collected data to small control centre at
some systems use radar, sonar or laser radar instead of video the intersections by passing through several sensors. In
camera, which enhance the reliability of the system, the addition, small control centre is responsible for counting users'
system costs more and has high power waste. This paper parking time and transmitting parking time and parking space
presents a sort of system which uses sensor networks to collect state information to main control centre.
configure the network information. The partial simulation of
B. Node structure the system is illustrated in Fig. 6:
Fig. 8 describes data flow direction of sensor node, from
collecting data to transmitting to neighboring node. Firstly,
magnetic sensor detects the presence of vehicle by measuring
the disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. The collected
signal is signified and sent to microcontroller and then
microcontroller sends the signal to radio transmitter after
relevant judgment. Finally, radio transmitter transmits the
signal to neighboring node by antenna. The power of the
system is supplied by a battery Fig. 9 introduces the integral
structure of sensor networks and routing information of
parking space state. Several nodes can compose a cluster and
data is transmitted from originator to sink node and then to
other networks, such as Internet.