Design and Implementation of a Smart Parking Management System for Smart Cities

Abstract

The vehicles have become the main means of transport today, and especially in the metropolitan area where the requirements for public parking spaces are getting more and more frequent due to growing popularity of the vehicles in the city. Thus, the parking management of vehicles will become even more important. However, there are often some disadvantages in the traditional parking area, such as time-consuming management, lack of parking security, the inconvenience for finding a parking space and so on. In this paper, a design of an efficient smart parking management system is proposed and implemented by mainly using the image processing techniques, Arduino board hardware and electrical apparatuses. The proposed system provides several appealing features, such as automatic license plate recognition, the best recommended parking space reminder, antitheft parking security, and real-time display of parking space status to further improve the above-mentioned issues in the traditional parking area.