Automatic parking service through VANET: A Convenience application

Abstract

Determination of available parking slot with optimum time at the public places like shopping mall, cinema hall, railway station, airport, etc. is the major concern for all the vehicle users particularly for four wheelers. Searching for the available parking slot randomly increases the delay, the wastage of fuel, etc. Also, monitoring of the parking slot, collection of the parking fee is done manually. Increase in the number of vehicles gradually puts overhead on the parking services. Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is the emerging research area which basically focusses on the safety applications. Due to the presence of communication unit, the application area of VANET is widely increasing dayby-day. In this paper, an automated determination of available parking slot and an automatic parking fee collection is proposed through VANET. The proposed method is compared with the random searching method in terms of average waiting time and total service time. The proposed work is simulated using Network Simulator NS-2. For the maintenance of the parking slot, automatic collection of parking fees is simulated using an open source database called MongoDB and Node-red.