A Social-Aware Smart Parking Application

The problem of finding parking spaces in big urban areas is one of the unsolved challenges of Smart Cities causing traffic congestion, increased carbon emission and time wasting. Network and sensor technologies available today allow to foresee Smart Cities equipped with applications able to provide real-time information on parking space availability, which can be used to assist motorists in looking for a parking space. In the present work, we propose a smart parking application that relies on the use of software agent negotiation as a mechanism to automate the selection of parking spaces according to the user preferences, but at the same time to take into account city needs in terms of areas motorists should avoid, or car pars occupancy at a specific time. Both city needs and user’s preferences are dynamic information managed by the negotiation mechanism at the time a user’s request is processed, so providing a dynamic-based selection of a parking space.