Toward service oriented design for reservation-based parking

A smarter hyper-connected world means everybody is connected into internet in a smarter way. This paper is pointing to one aspect of lifestyle in a big city community, that is the parking system. Finding a parking lot in a crowded day in a public building such as a mall or supermall is difficult. It will be convenient if one can reserve a parking slot before arriving in that building. This service is like reserving a room in a hotel. This paper elaborates the work on the reservation-based parking system, and focuses on the design of the backend system that is created by implementing service oriented architecture. The architecture is implemented in a private cloud based on OpenStack infrastructure. This work also aims at an elastic system, i.e., a system that can be resized according to the needs. We explain the progress of creating this backend system.