Smart Parking Solutions for On-Street and Off-Street Parking

The concept of smart cities is emerging and has become popular. The technology is advancing at a fast pace and it has made the concept of smart cities achievable. But as there is increase in number of vehicles and mismanagement of parking spaces, people tend to create congestion whether it be on-street or off-street, which leads to wastage of time and unnecessary pollution. There is an utmost need to develop a smart parking system which would help an individual to find empty parking slot. Although there is ton of research going on for the development of smart parking system but most of them still rely on the old concept of sensor-based approach. In this paper, a prototype of Camera based Smart Parking System is proposed, which detects live empty parking slots and notifies it through a user-friendly Android application.