Design of Smart Parking System using IoT

Increasing urbanization has increased load on the city roads, traffic and parking systems. It is essential to leverage Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to enhance traffic and parking system services in an urban area. With available hardware components and software platform researchers are exploring to build effective solutions to resolve citizen problems. The present paper uses available off the shelf component to build a smart parking system. A tripod approach was used. Such a smart parking system involves user management, parking space management and cloud based administration. IR sensors are used for parking space occupancy detection; these sensors are connected to an Atmel AtMega microcontroller available on Arduino UNO. The information is communicated through a Wi-Fi protocol and cloud services were utilized using Blynk platform. The designed prototype is presented in this paper. The proposed model is an effective way of managing mid-sized parking spaces