Summary and Reader response: draft 3
In
the article “ IoT based Smart Parking Systems for Smart Cities”, hiOTron.com
(n.d), it claims that it is crucial to create an automated smart parking
management system. It was supported by recent research that, “30% of the
traffic in urban areas is generated by drivers and motorists looking for
parking spaces”. Smart Parking uses sensors instruments to identify the
occupancy of the parking lots, and designed to transmit scanned data to the
database in real-time. Hence drivers will be able to identify if there is an
available parking slot through the app. It can be adopted in most urban parking
spaces and managed by a programmable logic controller (PLC). However, it states
that there will be many challenges such as high upfront costs, enforcement and
inconvenience for tourists. Still, the benefits such as improved traffic and
reduced management cost are worth the challenge. Despite challenges such
as connection issue, smart parking system is beneficial in order to reduce
traffic jams and results in a better user experience as it allows drivers to
find the nearest available parking slot as soon as possible.
Firstly, smart parking system is beneficial
in reducing the traffic jams by reducing the amount of time drivers spent driving
around the roads to find parking slot. With the number of vehicles on the road
is causing undesirable problems such as traffic jams. Shoup (2006) mentioned
that wandering of cars in order to find parking spots is responsible for 30% of
the entire traffic in a city. With this issue arising, smart parking was being
introduced, parking lots have installed guidance system by notifying drivers
the availability of parking spots. According Shin & Jun (2014), it shows
that with the implementations of smart parking system it has improved the city
traffic situation by 10%. Based on this result, the smart parking system is
proved to be useful in the real-time environment as it improves the traffic
congestion in the city.
Secondly, the traditional method of
finding an available parking slot is to drive around until the user discover an
empty parking slot. User tend to waste a lot of time and it is very
inefficient. There is a chance that after a few rounds of search, user is still
unable to find an empty parking slot. According to Gautam (2019), live
updates on the mobile, easy navigation towards the entrance and exit points and
quick payments through smart parking app can “improve the overall efficiency of
the parking process.” So instead of driving to the destination to find an empty
parking slot, user can now reserve a parking slot through the mobile app. This
allows the user to save the time and have a better parking process.
Lastly, internet connection plays a
crucial role for smart parking to work. Smart parking system may not be as
beneficial to certain country that has poor internet connection. According to
Huawei (2019), isolated parking space has difficulty to transmit the required
data due to connectivity issue. This means that parking location such as
underground parking that has poor internet connection would have difficulty in
utilizing smart parking system.
In conclusion, the use of smart
parking system is beneficial in terms of efficiency and will reduce traffic jam
despite the connectivity issue. However, location that has strong internet
connection shall not be affected by the connectivity issue, thus benefitted
from it.
Reference
hIOTron.
(2020). IoT based Smart Parking Systems for Smart Cities.
Shin,J.H.,&
Jun,H. B.(2014). Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. A study
on smart parking guidance algorithm. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X14001077?casa_token=eWncpOO9GEIAAAAA:rsdzaHCvR2YVtHjBZHrUSAtJ_Xr4PEJr3_vMFkmJpwFmegUdmZ2NXI8qWAUuCHx1e6KZyKY7bH8
Shoup, D. C. (2006).
Transport Policy: Cruising for parking. Los Angeles.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X06000448
Gautam,
S. (2019). Benefits of Smart Parking Series: How Smart Parking Enhances User
Experience
Huawei.
(2019) IoT, Driving Verticals to Digitization
https://www.huawei.com/minisite/iot/en/smart-parking.html
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