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Smart Car Parking System in Rwanda

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Soft Computing Applications (SOFA 2020)

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This paper discusses smart car parking system in Rwanda using IOT based technology. There are different problems in car parking affecting people such as wasting time and fuel consumption while searching for available parking spaces. These problems cause different consequences like traffic congestion, driver’s frustration and air pollution. The current work aims at designing the smart car parking system, to detect automatically 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. 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.

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  1. African Center of Excellence Internet of Things (ACEIoT), University of Rwanda (UR), Kigali, Rwanda

    Esperance Nyiransabimana, Emmanuel Ndashimye & Richard Musabe

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

  2. Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Marius Mircea Balas

  4. Cankaya University, Ankara, Türkiye

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Nyiransabimana, E., Ndashimye, E., Musabe, R. (2023). Smart Car Parking System in Rwanda. In: Balas, V.E., Jain, L.C., Balas, M.M., Baleanu, D. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23636-5_17

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