Building sustainable parking lots with the Web of Things

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Abstract

Peak-time traffic woes create considerable amount of stress and environmental pollution resulting in an economic loss. Research innovations in areas such as the Web of Things are able to curtail some of these issues by creating scalable and sustainable environments like parking lots, which provide motorists with access to convenient parking spots. We present a scalable parking lot network infrastructure that exposes parking management operations through a judicious mashup of physical things' services within a parking lot. Our system uses service-oriented architecture, allowing motorists to reserve parking spots in advance. In doing so, our proposed system leverages the use of HTTP and Wi-Fi for the Web enablement and interoperability of things within a parking spot and elevates it as a Smart Parking Spot on the Web. Our suggested semantic Web-based structure for representing things makes it possible to query physical things' states and services depending on their capabilities and other relevant parking-related parameters. Our performance evaluation reveals that a maximum of 40 % time is saved to find parking spots and also 40 % reduction in air pollution is observed. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.

ISSN

1617-4909

Publisher

Springer-Verlag London Ltd

Volume

18

Issue

4

First Page

895

Last Page

907

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Semantic Web, Sensor networks, Smart parking, Web of Things, Web services

Scopus ID

84897386772

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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