Information of parking place availability through the use of proximity inductive sensor based on IoT

Abstract An availability of a parking place in the shopping centre remains becoming a problem since the vehicles often enter the parking area without being sure about the available parking space left in the parking lot. This research was intended to design information system regarding the availability of parking place for the vehicles when entrancing the shopping centre. Through this information system, the entering vehicles will just need to go to the available parking place. This research employed prototyping method by using microcontroller as input data processor, Inductive Proximity sensor, Wi-Fi module, and Web application. When vehicles come into the parking lot A, the sensor will provide the data on the Arduino about the available parking place in the parking area A, and then the data will be sent to the Web application by using Module Wi-Fi so that the web for the parking place A will get information about the availability and the unavailability of the parking place in that parking area. There will be also a description about the available parking place on the other parking places such as in the parking lots B and C. Through this research, the parking place for the vehicles will be more well-organized and the vehicles will be eased to look for an available parking space when they go into the shopping centre.