A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System
Smart parking is an artificial intelligence-based solution to solve the challenges of inefficient utilization of parking slots, wasting time, congestion producing high CO<sub>2</sub> emission levels, inflexible payment methods, and protecting parked vehicles from theft and vandalism. Not...
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| author | Abdelrahman Osman Elfaki Wassim Messoudi Anas Bushnag Shakour Abuzneid Tareq Alhmiedat |
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| description | Smart parking is an artificial intelligence-based solution to solve the challenges of inefficient utilization of parking slots, wasting time, congestion producing high CO<sub>2</sub> emission levels, inflexible payment methods, and protecting parked vehicles from theft and vandalism. Nothing is worse than parking congestion caused by drivers looking for open spaces. This is common in large parking lots, underground garages, and multi-story car parks, where visibility is limited and signage can be confusing or difficult to read, so drivers have no idea where available parking spaces are. In this paper, a smart real-time parking management system has been introduced. The developed system can deal with the aforementioned challenges by providing dynamic allocation for parking slots while taking into consideration the overall parking situation, providing a mechanism for booking a specific parking slot by using our Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based application, and providing a mechanism to ensure that the car is parked in its correct place. For the sake of providing cost flexibility, we have provided two technical solutions with cost varying. The first solution is developed based on a motion sensor and the second solution is based on a range-finder sensor. A plate detection and recognition system has been used to detect the vehicle’s license plate by capturing the image using an IoT device. The system will recognize the extracted English alphabet and Hindu-Arabic Numerals. The proposed solution was built and field-tested to prove the applicability of the proposed smart parking solution. We have measured and analyzed keen data such as vehicle plate detection accuracy, vehicle plate recognition accuracy, transmission delay time, and processing delay time. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7804ea96eaf640188ebd4ff3617ca3fa2023-12-22T14:40:29ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202023-12-012324974110.3390/s23249741A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring SystemAbdelrahman Osman Elfaki0Wassim Messoudi1Anas Bushnag2Shakour Abuzneid3Tareq Alhmiedat4Faculty of Computers & Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computers & Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computers & Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Cybersecurity and Network, School of Criminal Justice Studies, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI 02809, USAFaculty of Computers & Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi ArabiaSmart parking is an artificial intelligence-based solution to solve the challenges of inefficient utilization of parking slots, wasting time, congestion producing high CO<sub>2</sub> emission levels, inflexible payment methods, and protecting parked vehicles from theft and vandalism. Nothing is worse than parking congestion caused by drivers looking for open spaces. This is common in large parking lots, underground garages, and multi-story car parks, where visibility is limited and signage can be confusing or difficult to read, so drivers have no idea where available parking spaces are. In this paper, a smart real-time parking management system has been introduced. The developed system can deal with the aforementioned challenges by providing dynamic allocation for parking slots while taking into consideration the overall parking situation, providing a mechanism for booking a specific parking slot by using our Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based application, and providing a mechanism to ensure that the car is parked in its correct place. For the sake of providing cost flexibility, we have provided two technical solutions with cost varying. The first solution is developed based on a motion sensor and the second solution is based on a range-finder sensor. A plate detection and recognition system has been used to detect the vehicle’s license plate by capturing the image using an IoT device. The system will recognize the extracted English alphabet and Hindu-Arabic Numerals. The proposed solution was built and field-tested to prove the applicability of the proposed smart parking solution. We have measured and analyzed keen data such as vehicle plate detection accuracy, vehicle plate recognition accuracy, transmission delay time, and processing delay time.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/24/9741smart parkingInternet of Things (IoT)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Optical Character Recognition (OCR) |
| spellingShingle | Abdelrahman Osman Elfaki Wassim Messoudi Anas Bushnag Shakour Abuzneid Tareq Alhmiedat A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System Sensors smart parking Internet of Things (IoT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) |
| title | A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System |
| title_full | A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System |
| title_fullStr | A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System |
| title_short | A Smart Real-Time Parking Control and Monitoring System |
| title_sort | smart real time parking control and monitoring system |
| topic | smart parking Internet of Things (IoT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/24/9741 |
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