SCPS: An IoT Based Smart Car Parking System

With increasing population and increase in purchasing capacity, the need for personal transportation has seen a tremendous increase over the years hence the increase for parking spaces at public places such as malls, supermarkets, and big housing societies has also increased to provide adequate parking space for the people. With huge parking spaces comes the responsibility to manage it efficiently and conveniently so as to provide fast and easy parking solutions for the users. Currently, the parking facilities hiring assisting staff to help customers who are driving in the facility with finding parking slots. To automate this task and minimize human intervention while users park their car, the proposed system, SCPS (Smart Car Parking System) maps the parking slots into a dynamic real-time virtual map that updates the parking slot availability as the user parks their car, by sensing the existence of a vehicle in a parking area using IR sensors (Infrared sensors). The SCPS system updates that particular slot as occupied and then updates the display. In this paper, we have developed a Smart Car Parking System (SCPS) using IOT, Arduino, NodeMCU esp8266 with a wi-fi module and an android application for booking the parking slots by the user that can be monitored from anywhere around the world. As a result, we minimize the unnecessary human interference that was required for the parking facility. This helps to utilize the human skills for other tasks and creates a smooth parking facility without multiple assistances.