Smart Parking System Based on the IR Sensor and Node MCU with the Blynk Application

Background: The prime challenge in Parking Systems is to administer the parking during peak hours or peak seasons. Besides being time consuming, it is laborious. Amalgamation of various infrastructures of hardware and software is prodigious and thus adding to its conventional hardware, making the investment in Smart Parking solution highly hazardous and splintered. Electronic payment vendors cause another crucial drawback. Objective: With the evolution of technology, we have proposed the plan to diminish human endeavors to such a degree, that a limit of one individual will be required to deal with the total colossal parking spot and a most extreme of one or two volunteers if there should arise an occurrence of any technical issues with minimal cost of operation. Methods: In our proposed work, we have used Infrared Sensors at each parking slot and also used a Node Micro Controller Unit, a Wi-Fi microchip for connectivity. The Internet of Things platform used over here is Blynk. Results: The proposed technique performs better compared to existing state-of-art methodologies as it is cost-effective and easy to implement. Also, this can maintain the total vehicle count of a particular day which can be used for further traffic analysis. Conclusion: This paper presents the prototype of a Smart Parking System based on the IR sensor and Node MCU which is connected to the Blynk app that monitors the whole parking lot. It provides an optimized parking solution for various places available with parking facilities throughout the city. The proposed Smart parking system enables the guard in-charge to obtain necessary information on the availability of parking space and keep a track of the effective number of vehicles that have entered the arena via a suitable app.