This paper presents an architecture for Automated Valet Parking (AVP) connected to cloud-based IoT services and mobile user interfaces. The goal is to enable AVP services for automatic vehicles. From the user perspective, automatic car drop-off and pickup are activated via smart phone application, and the user will be able to continuously monitor the vehicle status together with additional services as cleaning or recharge during the parking phase. Further, the IoT platform allows the integration of live services that will interact with automatic driving and parking. As an example, the presented AVP setup includes the operation of service drones to automatically guide a vehicle to the best parking spot. The demonstration in this paper comprises a parking car and a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) connected in real-time through the IoT platform as well as the smart phone application where the car is controlled and supervised.

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Traffic infrastructures are one of the central elements of today's mobility. They are crucial for road traffic and offer road users space and orientation for mobility to move within public space. Road infrastructure is currently designed for non-autonomous vehicles. To be able to support new technologies and services related to autonomous driving, adaptation and enhancement of the capability of current traffic infrastructures is necessary. An innovative solution is the digitization and virtualization of conventional traffic infrastructures. In this paper, the possibilities of digitization and virtualization of current traffic infrastructure elements are presented and discussed in the form of an implementation concept. The paper illustrates the most significative use cases, where digitization and virtualization may lead to the improvements in the efficiency of traffic flow and management. Part of this contribution is also an analysis and evaluation of the technical feasibility of single-use cases for digitizing and virtualizing traffic infrastructures.

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