DisAssist: An internet of things and mobile communications platform for disabled parking space management

Abstract

People with disabilities face many issues when it comes to parking in urban areas which include the limited availability of spaces allocated for their use and the unauthorised usage of such spaces. This paper presents DisAssist which is a system designed and developed based on the principles brought forward by the Internet of Things and Smart Cities initiatives; it integrates sensors and smart phones along with wireless and mobile communications to provide for better utilisation and management of parking spaces allocated for use by people with disabilities. Through the use of DisAssist, people with disabilities may obtain realtime availability of parking slots in an area of interest, reserve a slot and authenticate themselves when parking assisting the authorities with usage monitoring for law enforcement as well as capacity planning purposes. Entitlement verification is possible through a multitude of ways enabling users to embrace technology at the level and format they wish.

A full end-to-end platform as a service for smart city applications

“…The value of Internet of Things platforms and applications in Smart Cities has already been demonstrated by several projects and publications ([1]- [18]). Authors in [1] present their experiences from deploying sensors and creating smart applications in the city of Barcelona.…”

“…Even cognitive solutions ( [6], [17]) allow managing smart cities applications based on context-awareness of the objects and the users. There are also applications developed for specific target groups, like the DisAssist system [18] that utilizes IoT technologies for disabled parking space management, or general parking space utilisation [19].…”

Cloud Based Vehicle Parking System for Anonymous Place Using Internet of Things

“…Lambros Lambrinos [7] proposed a system to help the people to solve their parking issues, which is designed based on the principles of IOT.They incorporated sensors and PDAs alongside remote versatile correspondences to accommodate better use and administration of parking spots allotted for the general population with inabilities to utilize. To grasp innovation at the level and configuration they wish, privilege confirmation is conceivable through a huge number of ways empowering clients.…”

Centralized Connectivity for Multiwireless Edge Computing and Cellular Platform: A Smart Vehicle Parking System

“…As a part of system's design, web service is created, a useful service, to keep the parking prevalent information always updated, for the newer users (or drivers), to make the reservations for the parking lots if available. Lambrinos and Dosis [15] introduced an architecture design for smart car parking system, employing advanced platform called the Internet of Things (IoT), the middleware layer, and ZigBee wireless sensor network (WSN), and the required reporting services are manipulated through IoT front-end layer 12 which acts as an interactive user interface. However, the study has limitations, due to the employment of reliable application protocol, that is, constrained application protocol (CoAP), in transferring of information from the network setup to the control unit.…”

“…In studies [10,[12][13][14][15][16], comprehensive reviews were conducted on the smart parking systems which deployed the today's advanced IoT technology; further some important issues were highlighted that were commonly available in parking systems and the usual challenges that have been faced by the drivers (or users) during searching the optimal ways for the parking in the traffic density in the crowded areas. More advanced, in study [10], smart parking system was built with the mathematical model formed to validate the overall system's performance and parking reservations were performed with the minimal cost, but, at the same time, this study has some disadvantages, including the time wastage consumed during car forwarding scenarios to another parking place.…”