Smart Parking for Disabled Parking Improvement Using RFID and Database Authentication

In many populous cities across the world, parking tends to be at the forefront of traffic concerns. Many cities have seen rises in urban population as people move to the cities for job opportunities. The increase in population also means more cars in the city making parking spaces valuable commodities. In many of these cities, parking spaces near venues and other services are reserved for disabled parking. In the United States, federal law sets the requirements for the number of spaces that must be made available along with the size of each area. Requirements for authorization to park in these spaces are also set by federal offices and the authorized person is given a placard designating their legal right to park in these designated parking spaces for the disabled. Our proposed method, which adds RFID and database authentication to the use of ultrasonic sensors, LED, and cloud technology methods, will assist with ensuring that the limited disabled-parking spaces are used by those authorized to do so, and will alert the parking authority when a space is occupied by an unauthenticated person. Our goal is to explain how some of the currently researched smart parking methods can be used for disabled parking management and improved with the addition of authenticating disabled parking authorization.