Parking Management System using Wireless Sensor Networks

Parking is costly and limited in almost every major city in the world. Innovative parking systems for meeting near term parking demand are needed. This paper proposes a novel, secure and intelligent parking system based on secured wireless sensor network (PSWSN). From the point of users’ view, PSWSN is a secure and intelligent parking service. The parking reservation is safe and privacy preserved. From the point of management’s view, PSWSN is an intelligent parking system. The parking process can be modeled as birth-death stochastic process and the prediction of revenues can be made. Based on the prediction, new business promotion can be made, for example, on-sale prices and new parking fees. In Smart Parking, new promotions can be published through wireless network. We address hardware/software architecture, implementations, and analytical models and results. The evaluation of this proposed system proves its efficiency.