Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in DOI: 10.

15439/2017R80
Intelligent and Computing in Engineering pp. 161–163 ACSIS, Vol. 10 ISSN 2300-5963

An approach for smart parking system

based on cloud using IoT

Swapna S. Deshpande Prof.Renuka S. Gound

ME Student Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology Department of Information Technology
Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering
Pune, India Pune, India

Abstract— in the most of the modern cities it is difficult Section III contains the proposed smart parking system
and expensive to create more parking spaces for vehicles and Section IV contains conclusion followed by
since the numbers of vehicles are running on the road are
increasing day by day and the count of the free spaces in the references.
cities are the same. This problem leads to congestion for
parking seekers and drivers. To develop an IoT framework II. RELATED WORK
that targets Parking Management which is biggest There are a number of applications that give
challenges in modern cities. Using embedded systems, there information about free parking slot to users. All the
is a chance to develop an application which can solve these
problems. The proposed smart parking solution gives an on- currently running application gives an interface through a
site deployment in which, IoT application monitors and mobile phone, and desktops applications. They mainly
indicate the availability of each parking space. This system focus on finding the cheapest and nearest parking lot
helps in improvising the management of parking system by through Google maps and they do not provide information
following rules of the government, for example handling about spot availability (Gupte & Younis, 2015; Rico,
different parking spaces in the city. The intuition of
presenting this paper is to reduce smart city issue such as the Sancho, Cendón, & Camus, 2013) There are different
traffic on road and reduces the pollution in the city and the models for parking management developed per year,
parking. mostly they consist of RFID-based, and wireless sensor
based methods. These methods track the free space. The
Keywords— Cloud; Internet of Things; MQTT; Raspberry pi; RFID tags are put on vehicles to take down the in-out time
Parking
of the vehicle based on that cost for parking is decided.
I. INTRODUCTION However, a disadvantage of such RFID method is it is a bit
Currently, the IoT applications in our daily life are expensive to keeping track of RFID tags, and in cases of
blooming, and there is also a growing trend in the wireless sensors, various sensors are used are like weight,
applications of smart cities which can help in improving to motion which is difficult to maintain (Gupte & Younis,
reduce smart cities issues. In Smart City we faces many 2015). The cloud system used to store the data from each
difficulties while developing, to solve smart city issues we sensor on a daily basis, thus cloud provides unlimited
have to develop such system which is combination of the storage capacity, which is low in cost and it has on-
new technology also of low cost and based on the different demand storage capacity (Khanna, 2016). In a traditional
network combination of the Internet, such as a way we have to install wired infrastructure for vehicle
telecommunications, broadcast, wireless and sensor detection, but now a day’s using wireless sensor network
networks where Internet of Things (IoT) is base through Zigbee networks we can install an infrastructure.
technology. One of the major issues in a smart city is the Zigbee network wirelessly communicates with a central
Parking. A parking lot should provide customers enough server that has all information about the sensor’s data
spaces to park their car since car plays a huge role in (Grodi & Rios-gutierrez, 2016). In this paper, they
transportation, there is need of finding out parking area to implement a parking guidance system using RTOS and
park the vehicles. By creating a new system, it can help PIC32 controller. In that one microcontroller controls the
manage and reducing the road traffic. A new system helps three sensors at a time (Yosafat, 2014) they have used Free
customers to save time in finding a parking spot. The RTOS and RS485 communication protocol for
Internet of Things is about installing different sensors like transmitting and receiving data. Raspberry pi board
ultrasonic sensors; active and passive RFID, IR, etc. contains System on a Chip (SoC) it means it is a method of
connect to the internet through different protocols for grouping all the useful electronics to run on the individual
exchanging information and to communicate, in order to chip and it also uses processor Broadcom BCM2837 for
achieve monitoring, management. Using IoT, Smart City various interfaces. Raspberry pi is flexible; it can use for
can be established by integrating these features for IoT general purpose computing. (Vujović & Maksimović,
development. The Internet of Things (IoT) uses devices 2014). In this paper, they have created parking system
which are connected to each other and systems to collect based on the wireless communication network which
the data by using embedding sensors, actuators and other efficiently manages time to find out parking space in less
physical objects. Rest this paper is organized as follows. time [7]. In this paper, they have created zone area to
Section II shows related work on smart parking system. control over each parking lane and all zones are connected

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through central control unit [9] this paper they have

proposed parking system using magnetic sensors[10]
III. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system consists of three main phases:
A. On-Field Network
B. Cloud Platform
C. User side Platform
A. On-Field Network

As shown in figure 1, On-Field Network section there will

be one ultrasonic sensor for individual parking slot is
allotted, which will be ultimately collect the data from
each parking slot. Following are the devices we are going Figure 1: Proposed Smart Parking System
to used on field network.
B. Cloud Platform
Ultrasonic sensor:
A basic ultrasonic sensor consists of a transmitter, a MQTT MQ Telemetry Transport:
receiver, and a control circuit. The transmitter emits a MQTT described as Machine to Machine (M2M)/ IoT
high-frequency ultrasonic sound, which bounces off any connectivity protocol. This protocol is light weighted; the
nearest solid objects. The ultrasonic sound has detected protocol can be supported by smallest measuring and
the obstacle which is within the range and reflects the monitoring device. MQTT is publish-subscribe messaging
signal to the sensor. That reflected signal is then transport protocol that helps to connect physical devices
processed by the control circuit to calculate the time to the servers. There are many challenges of connecting
interval between the signal transmitted and received. sensors, actuators, mobile phones, tablets and desktops
Ultrasonic sensors are designed to sense range using with established software technologies, MQTT designed
ultrasound reflection, like the radar system, which to overcome these problems. The MQTT messages are
calculates the time interval between the sensor and a solid delivered asynchronously through publish-subscribe
object by passing ultrasonic waves. Ultrasonic sound is architecture. It works by exchanging a series of MQTT
mainly used since it is inaudible to the human ear and it control packets in a defined way. The control packet sent
gives almost accurate results within short distances. over the network has a specific purpose and every bit in
the packet is carefully crafted to reduce the data
ESP8266 Chip: transmission an MQTT topology has an MQTT server and
an MQTT client. MQTT client and server are
An ESP8266 chip is the Wi-Fi chip, which is low in communicating through different control packets. MQTT
cost. It is a small module which allows microcontrollers control packet headers are kept as small as possible. An
to connect to the WiFi network. individual MQTT control packet divides into three parts,
a fixed header, a variable header, and the payload. Fixed
header for each MQTT control packet is 2 bytes. Some of
Raspberry Pi: the control packets have variable headers and payload. A
Raspberry pi 3 model B is a single board computer variable header contains packet identifier when it is used
which is of credit card sized. the system on chip It has by the control packet. The packets can be attached
several versions model A, A+, B, B+, zero. Raspberry pi payload up to 256MB.
board contains System on a Chip (SoC) it means it is a
method of grouping all the useful electronics to run on the C. User Side Platform
individual chip and it also uses processor Broadcom
BCM2837 for various interfaces, a program memory
(RAM) is of 1GB. Raspberry pi used as a computer
requires a keyboard for entering commands, display as
well as the power supply of 2.5A. The Raspberry pi 3
model b is most efficient board.

Figure 2: Data flow diagram of User Side Platform

As shown in figure 2, in User Side Platform section,
the user will open the app, he will search for the nearest
parking area, it checks for availability of free parking lot.
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