IoT Based Car Parking System

Electronics engineering

Parking space is becoming a serious problem due to the day-by-day increase in number of vehicles on the road. Particularly, in cities with large population, or in places where sports or artistic events are scheduled, looking for parking space is a major problem and finding a parking spot can be a frustrating experience. To combat this problem, some parking lots have introduced sensors to detect when a car enters or leaves a parking lot to track capacity and alert drivers if they are full. This is a partial solution that allows drivers to determine if a parking lot has open parking spots, but not the exact location of those spots. 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).

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