IoT-based Smart Parking System using Android Application

Since all people used vehicles as a necessity, the growing number of vehicles is increasing day by day. With the increasing number of vehicles on the road, the requirement of parking lot will also be restricted. Thus, it become a problem for the people to find a free parking space in the busy building especially in shopping complex. Internet of Things (IoT) is an interesting technology that can be applied in this paper because this technology has a capability to transfer the data over a network without requiring human intervention in almost all applications in today's society. In this paper, a user-friendly mobile application, named as Android-based Car Parking Monitoring System (ACPMS) is built to aid in locating a particular parking place. ACPMS can provide a user with the ability to check vacant parking space and locate the nearest parking lot. ACPMS obtained the parking location from the current user's position with the sensor located in the shopping complex's parking lot. ACPMS is testing in a realistic environment for the purpose of movement detection and location service to notify user using the mobile application. By considering seven test case scenarios, the combination of the ACPMS mobile application with a parking prototype kit shows that the proposed work able to solve the parking problem.