A Study on Smart Parking Solutions Using IoT

With the evolution of Internet of things and the popularity of concepts of smart cities, it is now possible to achieve these concepts and implement them in reality. Lots of efforts are being put in to increase the productivity and reliability of infrastructures in urban city space. Key problems of the urban cities are traffic congestion, limited availability of parking spaces and time wasted in search of these limited parking spaces. These problems can be addressed using IoT systems. In this paper we have conducted a survey on the existing parking systems and have explained the main methodology used in each of the existing systems mentioned. Besides the main findings from the survey, with our engineering insights we have also come up with the solution that can efficiently be used for smart parking to overcome the disadvantages that we have discovered in the existing systems. Lastly, we describe the architecture and functionality of our solution using IoT.