Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC 2019)
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Proposed Methodology for IoT Based Smart
Parking System
Aditya Dabbe1, NagaSumukh H D1, Navyashree H S1, Prashanth Kumar K N2
Department of Information Science and Engineering, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering
Mysuru, Karnataka, India
adidabbe@gmail.com, naga.sumuk@gmail.com, navyagowda77721@gmail.com, prashanthkumar@vvce.ac.in
Abstract—There is a rapid increase of population in the
world at a rate of 1.09% increase every year, it has led to many
problems that adversely affects our society. These problems
are not only an Individual problem but also a global challenge
which includes air pollution, blockage of the road, waste of
natural resources such as fuel and mainly time. It is often
difficult to find the space to park their respective vehicle in
crowded areas. This proposed Smart parking system consists
of the onsite deployed Internet of Things (IoT) module which
delivers real-time output and monitors the flow of the parking
of vehicles in and out of that particular parking lot. The
methodology provides the optimal solution for the parking
space. Using this method one can get to know the space for
parking the vehicle.
I. INTRODUCTION
Searching has been increased for parking vehicle in big
urban cities has become inconvenient for the people. Reports
of the recent times show that about 40% of the volume of the
traffic on road consists of people who are searching for the
parking space [1]. With the introduction of this paper, this
percent may decline up to 10-15% which matters a lot in the
crowded urban areas. Traffic is growing faster than the
population in many of the urban cities around the country
[2]. This may lead to very long Queue of vehicles waiting for
the parking and hence blocking the rest of traffic for the easy
movement of traffic. This proposed system also consists of
accessing the nearest Parking lot using the algorithm these
years, wireless communication infrastructure and mobile
applications continue to thrive, and the influence of
crowdsourcing can directly affect applications in our
physical world [3].
With the help of smartphones, everyone is connected to
the wireless network thus helping them to collect the real-
time physical data with the help of various types of sensors
in the device. Actually, drivers may not find vacant parking
spots simply by following the conventional method. In this
method, such systems change the driver's behavior from
searching to competing for parking: more drivers go to the
same parking spots available and it is possible that none is
free until some drivers arrive, thus forcing them to reroute to
another parking slot [4].
Even if the user will be able to find the parking slot using
existing application there are chances that he might be unable
to find the other best parking slot which was available. There
is another chance of getting traffic congestion at a particular
point even having parking slot vacant at other better places.
With help of this smart parking system, the system will be
able to manage this whole process by itself without actual
human intervention [5]. Cloud computing and IoT have seen
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great progress. Both technologies have their advantages but
several mutual advantages from their integration can be
foreseen.
II. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
In this proposed system the application helps the user of
that particular application to find the parking slot in very
less amount of the stipulated time. The new technology used
here is the cost of the parking for user [6]. This is
intelligently calculated using the window of the time the car
was parked and also considering the other available parking
slot. This also provides an associate degree of adding an on
the market car parking zone upon asking by the user and an
answer of suggesting a brand new parking area if the present
or notify the user if the parking area is full. This system
mainly uses of RFID based digital parking management
system.
This eradicates the use of all manual process which in
turn helps in eliminating all the manual errors which can be
done due to human error. This helps the user to find the free
slot for the parking in the shortest path. Thus helping the user
to find the slot in the least time. RFID is used for the
authentication of the user at the entry point and thus noting
down the time of the entry time. The same procedure is used
at the exit point while swiping the RFID. Without the human
intervention entry and exit point will handle very fast thus
avoiding the traffic jam during the process. The cost is then
calculated in hourly basis.
The algorithm used in this system is Dijkstra's Algorithm
since this uses the shortest path to find the available slot [6].
Using this algorithm, the shortest path is calculated at the
back end and then given to user the node (parking slot). Then
this node is flagged for the other users not to book until the
car is removed. Then once the car removed node gets Un-
flagged thus making available for the other users to access
the parking slot.
In this technology, it mainly uses IoT as the main
category under which it uses WSN and RFID as the other
two concepts integrated with it. WSN is the concept which is
called Wireless Sensor Network. RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) is the concept which holds the count of the
percentage left in the parking space so that it can allow
parking for the upcoming vehicles [7]. This percentage left is
calculated by the WSN sensors kept in the parking place
which senses whether the slot for parking is available or not.
Hence by these two technologies combined, we can assure
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the real-time updating for the smooth follow of the vehicular
movement.
This technology uses RFID technology the user
information should be secure, so this uses the SHAI
algorithm for password security purpose [6]. The outcome
of the proposed optimization is the efficient friendly parking
of SPS. This system thus helps in reduction of real power
losses and improvement in parking through a smart parking
system.
In the following Proposed system includes the smart
parking which consists of the following components for the
construction of this paper [8].
When integrated with the IoT the reach of cloud can be
extended as shown in figure 1. Some factors that encourage
the combing of IoT and cloud are listed below,
 IoT produces a large amount of non-structured and
semi structures data thus this requires collection,
accessing, and sharing a big amount of data. These
parameters are provided by integrating with the
cloud.
 IoT devices have limited processing capabilities,
thus by integrating with cloud processing
capabilities can be increased.

 Parking Sensors  IoT devices are heterogeneous in nature which

proposes compatibility issues. this can be
 Processing units overcome since the cloud can provide a common
platform for all these devices to interact mutually.
 Mobile application
Flow Chart:
 The cloud

The following paper uses the below-mentioned

components,
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 PIC C Compiler – Compiling part of the program

 Proteus 7

In this, it uses the Wi-Fi server for monitoring the

whole device and getting the status of it when required. The
microcontroller controls the whole device [9]. The
microcontroller is then interfaced with the Wi-Fi and the
sensors kept at the parking place to know the real-time
status of the parking lot. All this information is sent to the
mobile using the Wi-Fi network. User to use this application
has to be connected to the local Wi-Fi network of the
particular parking center using the correct password.
Another smart parking paper which uses technologies
such as RFID, WSN, NFC, cloud and mobile application for
the smooth parking system [10]. The main concept in this
paper is various environmental parameters and the available
parking slot for the user who is in search of the vacant spot.
NFC is the technology used for the payment of the parking
fee through the e-wallet system.
In [11], it uses basically two techniques to get the user
the best parking spot for their vehicles. This analytical-
based approach which uses IoT middleware and the sensing
device to get the necessary metadata to deliver user the best
place.
Integration of IoT and cloud is very useful for the
growing society. The technological constraint of the IoT can
be overcome due to the integration with the cloud [12].
Constraints such as storage in IoT is limited and processing
speed may also decrease due to this and energy by
leveraging the unlimited capabilities and resources of Cloud.
Figure 1. Proposed Methodology for IoT Smart Parking
System
In [13], the intelligent vehicular parking system is
proposed wherein which the architecture consist of mainly 3
layers which are,
 The Sensor layer
 The communication layer
 An application layer
III. CONCLUSION
There are many concepts of smart cities which are
deployed and evolved in the recent past of generation. The
advancement in cloud and IoT have made rise to new
possibilities in the evolution in the smart cities. This helps in
reducing the users to find the slots in the reduced time.
Users from a remote location will be able to book the
parking slot and thus helping the user time to get reduced.
The system provides real time information about the
available slots and will be updated in the cloud. This
architecture thus helps for the traffic free and time reduced
movement of the user in the urban cities.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors express gratitude towards the assistance

provided by Accendere knowledge management services
Pvt. ltd. in preparing the manuscripts. we also thank our
mentors and faculty members who guided us throughout the
research and helped us in achieving desired results.

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