Design and Implementation of the Intelligent Parking System for Large Communities

Nowadays, the scale of a community is expanding and the regional transportation network is ever more intricate against the backdrop of the population explosion. It posed an obstacle to people especially guests in finding spaces to park. It also disturbs residents and increases traffic risks. This paper proposes a multi-technology intelligent parking system that manages and guides vehicles in a large community to avoid chaos. A number of vehicles in a community are served by the system concurrently, which puts forward higher requirements for the performance of the system, so a parking space allocation algorithm and parallel path-finding algorithm are introduced. To monitor parking spaces and provide navigation service, Internet of Things (IoT) devices are deployed and they are generally controlled by the server computer. Furthermore, a client/server (C/S) architecture software project is developed and users are able to access the system via the Android or iOS application. In reality test, the performance and robustness of the system are exactly suitable for given conditions.