Enhancement Design for Smart Parking System Using IoT and A-Star Algorithm

Finding parking slot inside packed parking area can be frustrating sometimes. Multiple cars chasing single parking space phenomenon often happens, and numbers of cars wasting vehicle distance without knowing where to go, and hopefully found empty parking slot, or a car that about to leave the occupied parking slot. This study will focus to increase IoT environment functionality on parking area with the help of A* path finding algorithm to accurately pinpoint driver to vacant parking slot, determined by nearest building entrance, and remotely reserved the parking slot prior when the vehicle got the parking ticket. In this study we also discuss about few possible scenarios, further discuss about the sensors, and the system architecture.