SMART PARKING SOLUTIONS FOR SMART CITIES BASED ON WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Urban commuting has become a nightmare for a common man who travels to and from work daily in a city. The traffic gets even worse on weekends, as almost half the road is occupied by cars searching for parking. To avoid these problems, recently many new technologies have been developed that help in solving the parking problems to a great extent usin g RFID technology, GSM, and QR code. In this survey paper, we discuss and analysis various smart parking solutions that are used to locate available parking space with the help of sensors. This saves customer’s time as well as minimizes wastage of fuel. Th is is done with the help of robotics and a lot of software programming. The growth in low - cost, low - power sensing and communication technologies is creating a pervasive network infrastructure called the Internet of Things (IoT), which enables a wide range of physical objects and environments to be monitored in fine spatial and temporal detail. There has been growing interest in the IoT for realising smart cities, in order to maximise the productivity and reliability of urban infrastructure, such as minimis ing road congestion and making better use of the limited car parking facilities. Some methodological framework for multiple steps ahead parking availability prediction includes the probability a free space to continue being free in subsequent time interval s, and the short - term parking occupancy prediction in selected regions of an urban road network.