BlueParking

Abstract

Imagine you sit on your driverless car and say: "go to <this destination>!" then your car finds the best available parking slot near your destination. You rest in your car until you arrive at your desired location. By development of IoT, this is not just an imagination. In this paper, we present BlueParking, an architecture for efficient reservation of parking slots based a smart IoT solution. In the proposed architecture and with high precision, the reservation algorithm can be applied from a start point by using a traffic estimator service on the top of IoT basic services. Traffic estimator service automatically presents the road status by analyzing the congestion of location nodes and ways reported by the connected cars of the system. The scheme is developed and demonstrated on BlueMix IoT platform.