RFID-Cloud Integration for Smart Management of Public Car Parking Spaces

TL;DR

This paper presents a successful RFID-Cloud integrated framework for managing public parking spaces, enhancing smart city infrastructure by enabling real-time slot reservation and access control, thus improving urban mobility and sustainability.

Contribution

It introduces a novel RFID-Cloud integration framework for real-time parking management, combining IoT, cloud computing, and AI for smart city applications.

Findings

Real-time parking slot availability updates via RFID and cloud

Enhanced convenience for motorists through reservation system

Potential to improve urban mobility and sustainability

Abstract

Effective management of public shared spaces such as car parking space, is one challenging transformational aspect for many cities, especially in the developing World. By leveraging sensing technologies, cloud computing, and Artificial Intelligence, Cities are increasingly being managed smartly. Smart Cities not only bring convenience to City dwellers, but also improve their quality of life as advocated for by United Nations in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal on Sustainable Cities and Communities. Through integration of Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, this paper presents a successful proof-of-concept implementation of a framework for managing public car parking spaces. Reservation of parking slots is done through a cloud-hosted application, while access to and out of the parking slot is enabled through Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology which in real-time, accordingly triggers update of the parking slot availability in the cloud-hosted database. This framework could bring considerable convenience to City dwellers since motorists only have to drive to a parking space when sure of a vacant parking slot, an important stride towards realization of sustainable smart cities and communities.