A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SMART PARKING AND RESERVATION SYSTEM WITH SCANNING APPLICATIONS

Abstract

ABSTRACT A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SMART PARKING AND RESERVATION SYSTEM WITH SCANNING APPLICATIONS With the increase of economic behavior and the upgrade of living standard, the ratio of people in India who own automobiles and motorcycles have recently increased giving a boost to Metropolitan Traffic. Therefore, parking issues will be a big challenge to facilitate traffic network and ensure urban life quality. Searching for parking space in most metropolitan areas, especially during the rush hours, is difficult for drivers. The difficulty arises from not knowing where the available spaces may be at that time; even if known, many vehicles may pursue very limited parking spaces to cause serious traffic congestion. In this paper, we design and implement a prototype of Smart Parking System based on Reservation (SPSR) that allows drivers to effectively find and reserve the vacant parking spaces. By periodically learning the parking status from the host parking database management in parking lots, the reservation service is affected by the change of physical parking status. The drivers are allowed to access this cyber-physical system with their personal communication devices. Furthermore, we study state-of-the-art parking policies in smart parking systems and compare their performance. The experiment results show that the proposed reservation-based parking policy has the potential to simplify the operations of parking systems, as well as alleviate traffic congestion caused by parking searching.

Specification

Description:A SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SMART PARKING AND RESERVATION SYSTEM WITH SCANNING APPLICATIONS
FIELD OF INVENTION
[001] The present invention relates to the application parking reservation policy to balance the benefit of service providers and requirements from the users. Moreover, the proposed reservation-based smart parking system can alleviate traffic congestion caused parking searching and reduce the amount of traffic volume searching for parking.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
[002] Background description includes information that may be useful in understanding the present invention. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art or relevant to the presently claimed invention, or that any publication specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.

[003] Searching for a vacant parking space in a metropolitan area is the daily concern for most drivers, and it is time consuming. It commonly results more traffic congestion and air pollution by constantly cruising in certain area only for an available parking space. For instance, a recent survey shows that during rush hours in most big cities, the traffic generated by cars searching for parking spaces takes up to 40% of the total traffic. To alleviate such traffic congestion and improve the convenience for drivers, many smart parking systems aiming to satisfy the involved parties (e.g., parking service providers and drivers) have been deployed.

[004] The current smart parking or parking guidance systems only obtain the availability information of parking spaces database which is managed by reservation authority, and simply publish the parking information to direct drivers. However, since these systems cannot guide the drivers to their desired parking destinations, even sometimes make the situation worse, they are not "smart" enough. For instance, when the number of vacant spaces in an area is limited, more drivers, who obtain the parking information, are heading for these spaces. It will cause server congestion. It is, therefore, strongly desired to provide an effective strategy to address these concerns. In this paper, we design and implement the prototype of a Smart Parking System based on Reservation (SPSR) using android, It not only broadcast real-time parking information to the drivers as part of a communal application, but also to provide reservation service as part of user-targeted service. The drivers can retrieve parking information and reserve their desired vacant spaces via Wi-Fi or Internet. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. also, we discuss about several existing approaches and challenges for smart parking systems. Also, we present the detailed architecture of proposed reservation-based smart parking system. Also, we explained the results through extensive simulation.

[005] Further limitations and disadvantages of conventional approaches will become apparent to one of skill in the art through comparison of described systems with some aspects of the present disclosure, as outlined in the remainder of the present application and concerning the drawings. As used in the description herein and throughout the claims that follow, the meaning of "a," "an," and "the" includes plural reference unless the context dictates otherwise. Also, as used in the description herein, the meaning of "in" includes "in" and "on" unless the context dictates otherwise.

[006] Groupings of alternative elements or embodiments of the invention disclosed herein are not to be construed as limitations. Each group member can be referred to and claimed individually or in any or a combination with other members of the group or other elements found herein. One or more members of a group can be included in, or deleted from, a group for reasons of convenience and/or patentability. When any such inclusion or deletion occurs, the specification is herein deemed to contain the group as modified thus fulfilling the written description of all groups used in the appended claims.

SUMMARY OF INVENTION
[007] The present invention relates to the application parking reservation policy to balance the benefit of service providers and requirements from the users. Moreover, the proposed reservation-based smart parking system can alleviate traffic congestion caused parking searching and reduce the amount of traffic volume searching for parking.

[008] This mechanism is commonly adopted by the current state of the smart Parking system design [6]. After the smart parking system publishes the parking availability information to the drivers in certain area, the driver will decide their desired parking destination where the parking lot has available spaces, according to the obtained parking availability information. However, if the number of vacant spaces in a parking lot is very limited in busy hours, it is likely that the number of drivers in demand for these parking spaces, which is based on parking information. This phenomenon is called "multiple-car-chasing-single space", which may cause severe congestion.

[009] To address the problematic "multiple-car-chase-single slot" phenomenon, some designers of smart parking systems modify the PIS mechanism. They intentionally reduce the number of vacant spaces, when publishing the live availability information to keep a buffer. Therefore, though there may be more drivers pursuing the limited available spaces, the system has some extra spaces to avoid the conflict. But it is difficult to determine the number of the buffer spaces. If the buffer is too small, the problem of "multiple-car-chase-single-space" will not be eliminated. If it is too large, the utilization of parking spaces will be low. As alluded to above, the blind search system is an open loop system, where users make decision without looking at the state of the system.

[0010] The PIS and BPIS strategies allow drivers to make decisions based on the system state (e.g., parking availability information). However, the phenomena of multiple car-chase-single-spaces cannot be fully eliminated. To reduce the traffic searching for parking, we suggest a reservation-based system, where drivers make reservations through the parking management system. If a driver makes the reservation successfully, it guarantees an available parking space for him, and the driver can park at the reserved space without searching. The reservation-based system allows drivers to select the most convenient parking space under their budget constraints. In this system, we implement parking reservation policy to balance the benefit of service providers and requirements from the users. Moreover, we have presented the detailed design, implementation and evaluation of the prototype. Based on the obtained results from our simulation study, we conclude that the proposed reservation-based smart parking system can alleviate traffic congestion caused parking searching and reduce the amount of traffic volume searching for parking.

[0011] Further limitations and disadvantages of conventional approaches will become apparent to one of skill in the art through comparison of described systems with some aspects of the present disclosure, as outlined in the remainder of the present application and concerning the drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0012] The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.
[0013] Figure 1. System Architecture of invention. 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0014] The following is a detailed description of embodiments of the disclosure depicted in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments are in such detail as to communicate the disclosure. However, the amount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipated variations of embodiments; on the contrary, the intention is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.

[0015] Figure 1. System Architecture of invention shows three components in the smart parking model, including parking zones, users and the database smart parking system. The management system determines the parking prices and broadcast lives parking availability information to users (also drivers). Upon receiving parking information, the user selects desired parking lot and reserves a space. As soon as user reserves a parking space, SPSR generates a unique QR code and sends it to the user. As a result, the state of parking resources is changed by users parking decisions.

[0016] The parking lot consists of a group of parking spaces. The state of a parking lot is the number of occupied spaces versus total spaces. Every parking lot has access to the Internet to communicate with the management system and users, and share parking information with other parking lots. In each parking lot, the reservation authority is deployed for authenticating the individual user's identity and reservation request. In this case, Reservation authority identifies each user by the unique QR code which has been send by the management system to the user at the time of reservation.

[0017] Once the reservation order is confirmed, the reservation authority updates reservation information to hold the related space for the user. Upon retrieving the parking information, the system updates the state of the parking lot. Based on the state of parking lots, the system (1) analyzes their occupancy status and congestion level, (2) determines the parking prices according to their pricing scheme, (3) broadcasts the prices to all users periodically, and (4) stores the parking information, QR code and prices for further analysis. The system serves as the centralized decision-making body in a planned economy. It makes all pricing decisions regarding the state of parking lots and user demands. This system is a closed-loop system to dynamically adjust parking price, balance the benefits between users, and service providers and reduce traffic searching for parking. By placing the reservation authority on the gate each user has been identified by the QR code, when user reaches the parking spot. Host demands for the QR code and verify the details by scanning the QR code. Since user does not need to communicate with his desired parking lot host to make his reservation, rather he directly scans the QR code by host QR code scanner and verify the details just like a centralized system. Due to this the communication overhead of reservation is highly reduced. Also, since each parking lot manages its own reservation information, it makes the reservation requests from users easily to be synchronized, comparing with reservation synchronization in the system.
[0018] While the foregoing describes various embodiments of the invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof. The scope of the invention is determined by the claims that follow.

[0019] The invention is not limited to the described embodiments, versions, or examples, which are included to enable a person having ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention when combined with information and knowledge available to the person.
, Claims:CLAIMS
We claim,
1. A system and method of smart parking and reservation system with scanning applications comprises we design and implement a prototype of Smart Parking System based on Reservation (SPSR) that allows drivers to effectively find and reserve the vacant parking spaces. By periodically learning the parking status from the host parking database management in parking lots, the reservation service is affected by the change of physical parking status.
2. The invention claimed in claim 1, state-of-the-art parking policies in smart parking systems and compare their performance. The experiment results show that the proposed reservation-based parking policy has the potential to simplify the operations of parking systems, as well as alleviate traffic congestion caused by parking searching.
3. The invention claimed in claim 1, the smart parking system publishes the parking availability information to the drivers in certain area, the driver will decide their desired parking destination where the parking lot has available spaces, according to the obtained parking availability information. However, if the number of vacant spaces in a parking lot is very limited in busy hours, it is likely that the number of drivers in demand for these parking spaces, which is based on parking information.
4. The invention claimed in claim 1, The system collects and stores the data about the performance metrics including the status of parking space, reservation time, parking location, driver's identity. All data stored by the system is at least stamped with time metadata. As the user is allowed to book only one parking space at a time from one id, it is a big challenge for us if user is trying to book one or many request at a time from one id. To overcome this problem we implemented a queue buffer which persistently checking the new request and compare it with the existing id requests. If any requesting id matches existing id then the request is directly discarded and a message showing 'no more parking spaces available' is displayed.
5. The invention claimed in claim 1, Verifying users identity is a major security concern as users with no reservation can enter and occupy someone else's parking space. In our proposed system, the user can open the application and verify their identity via the received QR code. Reservation authority sends a QR code to the user as soon as user reserves the parking space. At the parking lot host identifies the user by scanning the QR code generated by authority management system.

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