A Smart Parking System using Internet of Things with Automated Payment System for Smart Cities

As the world is urbanizing, the usage of vehicles is exponentially increasing day by day and the availability of parking is becoming more difficult. The insufficient space for parking is resulting in traffic problems and chaos in public areas. The common method of finding a space for parking is manual system where driver would go around in search of vacant space for parking the vehicle. This takes time and effort and failing in finding a parking in the worst case. To overcome the problems caused by manual parking this paper proposes a system based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology which lessens the effort of the people in finding the parking by identifying the free slots in parking area and keeping the record of vehicles parked. The smart parking system allows user to book a parking lot prior to the parking and the notification about the slot booked is sent to the user and the system has an automated payment system where the bill amount is directly deducted from the user's account.