Abstract:
This dissertation discusses smart car parking system in Rwanda using IOT based technology. Rwanda is the country that needs to be smart in different domains like in agriculture, health and transportation especially in car parking. There are different problems in parking affecting people such as wasting time and fuel consumption while searching for available parking spaces. Eventually they are parking in areas which are not accepted. These problems cause different consequences like traffic congestion, driver’s frustration and air pollution. The proposed smart car parking system facilitates the drivers to find the available parking slots automatically and reduces the waste time and fuel required for searching available parking slots. The objectives of this work achieved are to design the smart car parking system, to automatically detect available parking slots, to send data about parking status to the cloud, to display it to the smart phone using android application and to compare the existing data to new designed system. The existing system used a long time and requires a lot of fuel for searching available parking slot, and new car parking system use short time and save the fuel require for searching available parking slot. The new system is more efficiency, enhances the safety and security and easy to use. It is composed of IR (Infrared) sensors, servo motor, microcontroller (arduino uno), ESP8266 Wi-Fi module and Thingspeak cloud. This cloud supports MATLAB that is used to analyze and visualize the recorded data. The drivers access the data on Thingspeak cloud using a developed android application installed in their smart phones. The smart car parking system developed in this work enables vehicle occupancy, monitoring and managing of available parking space in real-time
