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Abstract— Traffic congestion is a common phenomenon in building. So, we need to come up with a digital plan to solve
developing countries like Bangladesh. This is the quotidian the parking problem in this metropolitan city.
scenario in most of the metropolitan cities of the world. After observing all the parking problems of Dhaka, this
Because of heavy traffic, people lose their valuable time from
their busy schedule. One of the prime reasons of this traffic proposes a smart android parking control system which will
congestion is parking on the roadside. So, a need arises to help you to find out the nearest parking area or any parking
develop a parking system so that it can reduce the traffic slot which is being empty as the owner of that parking may
congestion in near future. The paper focuses on a smart have taken his/her car somewhere else. If a car owner finds a
android based parking control application which will help parking slot in anyone’s parking area, when he/she will enter
you to find out a parking area in nearby your location. The
mobile application will also help you to pay the parking charge into that parking area, the timer will start by the parking lot
by online payment system. A counter will be there in the owner. When the car owner wants to leave the parking slot,
application which will help you to count the amount of time he/she will call the parking owner to stop the counter. When
your car have spent in the parking lot. This application will the counter will stop, it will automatically generate a parking
also track the entire process and all the previous records. bill for the car owner. Now, there will be 2 ways to pay the
Keywords—Traffic Congestion, Parking Area, MAC address, bill to the parking lot owner. If the car owner wants to pay
Attendance System, Smart Android Based Mobile Parking the bill in cash, he/she will directly pay this to the customer
Control Application, Location, Track. or if he/she wants to pay the bill any mobile banking system
like bKash or DBBL rocket. Once the bill is paid, the parking
I. Introduction slot owner will give a confirmation that the bill is paid. In
Dhaka city is one of the most crowded and busiest cities that application, there will be calling system to both parking
in the world. Almost 20 million people live in this city [1]. slot owner and car owner. They can also rate each other as
The total number of registered vehicles in Bangladesh is per their behavior.
approximately 3.1 million [2]. Thousands of people daily move The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The literature
from one place to another for doing their respective work. But work of our work is presented in Section II. In Section III, we
due to inefficient traffic management system, lack of strategic discuss the need findings, the conceptual architecture of the
planning poor traffic infrastructure facilities, it always takes proposed system. The development of the system is given
more time to go from one place to another [3]. Because of in Section IV. The result of the evaluation of our system is
this unbearable and seemingly incorrigible traffic inside the demonstrated in Section V. The discussion, implications, an
city, people miss their important work, or cant even reach idea for future work are presented in Section VI. Finally, the
their respective destination in due time. conclusion the paper in Section VII.
One of the major reasons for this traffic jam is parking
beside the roads. Unnecessary parking on the roads make II. Literature Review
the roads narrow and thus create traffic congestion. In a This research is focused to achieve a smart parking control
metropolitan city like Dhaka, if drivers park cars in the busy and management system for Dhaka city in an Android plat-
roads, the roads become scanty. It will take more time to cross form. This will alleviate our contemporary problems, leading
the roads. This scenario is seen in front of school buildings or towards a better lifestyle. To find out the related literature,
offices. A huge number of cars are being parked in the nearby we have conducted searches in the major scholarly databases
roads and create this unbearable traffic in Dhaka city. including ACM scholar, Google Scholar, IEEE explorer, Re-
Again, it can’t be denied that there are not enough parking searchgate and ScienceDirect using suitable search strings.
slots as per the number of vehicles in this metropolitan area A parking-lot management system was proposed by Parki,
as people haven’t followed the urban rules in the past times. Thakur Chauhan where the user can book parking-lots
The high-rise buildings aren’t built according to the building with the help of RFID [4]. The payment could be done by
code. Instead of making parking in the basement or parking, crosschecking the check-in and out time. But the system
many building owners decided to make it another floor to allowed to pay after checking out from the lot, then later
give rent for extra profit. paying the fines for further checking-in, which clearly didnt
Now, it is not possible to make the ground floor into help the scarcity of parking necessity hence anyone could take
a parking area. This will destroy the infrastructure of the advantage of the system.
Another GSM based parking system was discussed by 5) Many parking slots owner take their cars in the very early
Sahu, Gulhane Shelokar, where the system was divided into morning with them at work and there parking slots has
3 modules [5]. The system interacted with the user with been left unused whereas at the same time some car
SMS-based authentication in each step, which enhanced the owners are looking for a parking area but can’t find one
security but brings complexity in every step. in that same location so he/she needs to park his/her
A cloud-based car parking system was introduced by car on roadside.
Zhanlin, Ivan, Droma and their co-authors [6]. But the We have talked with our respected traffic police officers and
cloud-based parking system included a lot of software like also the owners of the parking slots and drivers. They all have
Kafta/storm/HBase clusters, OSGi web applications in addi- agreed that there should have a system that can bring the
tion NoSQL. The entire propose was very complex and not parking slot owners and car owners under one roof to reduce
user-friendly as people were looking for easy solutions all the the traffic control by providing the parking slot to the car
time. owners in the absence of their own car.
Bilodeau, Victor P [7] came up with a different technology
which is called IPT (Intelligent Parking Technology). They
B. Developing the conceptual design
had focused on the problem that drivers usually faced regard-
ing parking ticket issues. But this technology was also based In this sub-section, the conceptual design of the system is
on different sensors and GPS technology. So, this research given below which is the representation of the system.This
also relied on hardware and the complexity of the hardware will help you to understand it clearly. The block diagram of
was not warmly welcomed by the general people because if the system is given in Figure 1
the hardware disturbs the entire system will collapse.
III. Design of the Proposed Architecture
In this section, the system design is discussed. To discus
the system architecture, we have worked on two processes
1. Finding the necessity of this system, 2. Developing the
conceptual design.
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