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

https://blog.getmyparking.com/2019/01/30/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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