Optimizing Smart Parking System by Using Fog Computing

Abstract

Finding the vacant space for parking a vehicle during peak hours is becoming a difficult task at ones end. Parking process whether in shopping malls, restaurants, or offices etc. is a long process and also leads to waste of gasoline. Smart car parking helps in finding the parking slot through Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET’s). For vehicle communication, some devices such as roadside units and on-board units are present that provides parking slot information. In the proposed work, we have introduced an online reservation facility for parking slot. People can reserve their parking space in advance before reaching to their venues in advance. This will help in reducing the waiting time for the parking allocation to the particular vehicle. This will also help to enhance the parking capabilities and will increase the efficiency when compared to other parking strategies. Our proposed approach can minimize the cost of parking on per person basis, exhaust of vehicle, and indirectly it will impact on save of wastage of gasoline and will keep the environment green.