Smart car parking mobile application based on RFID and IoT

The common problem that is mostly found in urban areas and the organizations that provide services to large numbers of people such as government agencies, universities, department stores and hospitals, is the insufficient car parking areas. This problem is the result of the continually increasing number of vehicles. Furthermore, the car parking management is also insufficient, and the service users thus waste their time and fuel searching for an available parking space. The objective of this research was to develop a mobile application for smart car parking using Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which can detect the available parking spaces, thereby saving time for people. Moreover, the parking area management is more efficient as it minimizes the limitations of the conventional system in which the users have to access a web application that is unable to automatically alert them when the status of a parking space has changed. Additionally, the data can be applied to the management and planning, such as analyzing the numbers of vehicles daily to compare with the number of parking spaces to determine whether it is sufficient or not in order to appropriately improve and provide more parking spaces. © 2019 International Association of Online Engineering.