Smart Parking System with research on Thread Communication Protocol
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Abstract
Nowadays, enhancements in technology and areas in the automobile community has resulted in almost every individual making use of an automobile entity, due to this there has been significant increase in industrial and personal advancements but this has also resulted in increase in traffic, congestion, pollution and many more areas of concern. Smart parking systems (SPS) has been a topic of discussion for several years. Blockchain, IoT and network solutions have been proposed in order to ease the use of parking systems and tackle inconveniences caused due to lack of parking spaces. A major route of research in this domain is the use of IoT devices and wireless communication protocols to back it up. Many devices such as sensors, actuators, RFID’s, Zigbee communication protocol, NB-IoT communication protocol, Edge computing and much more have contributed to significant positive changes in the parking sector. In this paper, we intend on implementing a new communication protocol which eases the use of connectivity between IoT devices in an environment known as Thread Mesh protocol which was introduced in 2015 by Thread inc. Even though there has been extensive research done on IoT based SPS’s, security seems to be a major concern in majority of IoT devices and protocols, Thread communication protocol aims at reducing the risk of security attacks in a smart parking-system due to its in-built cryptography, commissioning, adaptation to PAN (Personal Area Network) and many more features that we intend on discussing and implementing in this paper.