IoT for Smart Parking

Nowadays, technology has become more reliable that allowed human interaction to decrease while the machines have started to take over in many fields of interest. The Internet of things (IoT) represents the idea of machines ability to control entire systems without any human interactions. This paper proposes an IoT system that takes a picture of parked cars in a garage, extract the plate number and the location of the car, and places these information in a database. At the garage entrance, a terminal linked to the system allows the user to locate the parked car using the license plate no.. The system is tested for reading license plates several times, and is shown to perform with a low probability of error. The proposed IoT parking system is an integrated system combining the RPi operating system Motion Eye, with MATLAB segmentation code for character recognition, database tools, as well as web services all in order to make the user interface as friendly as possible.