Telecommunications and Networks Smart Car Parking Application Impleme

Question: Discuss about theTelecommunications and Networksfor Smart Car Parking Application Implementation. Answer: Introduction The report is prepared for Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) where new innovative ideas are implemented for the application of IoT (internet of things) in the open infrastructure of the sunshine coast. Sunshine coast needs to have a framework that detects the parking available for the vehicle and the route for the nearest car parking. They want to install the system in the Sippy Down Campus of the University of Sunshine Coast and later on extend the project to build a smart parking for all the building location of SCC. The report is prepared proposing the two solutions using the internet of things devices according to the current infrastructure of the organization. The existing technology is used for the development of the project and security issues of the system and openness is discussed in the report. Designing the Network Infrastructure The framework for the parking system of Sunshine Coast Council is required to be designed using the internet of things and two solutions are required to be prepared. Solution 1: The first solution for the preparation of the smart car parking lot using the IoT hardware like raspberry Pi, auridino boards such that it can consume less power and provide a high performance after the implementation of the IoT devices (Bonde et al. 2014). The raspberry Pi would be used as a microcontroller device for controlling the different operation of the parking system. The NOOBS installer would be loaded in the database storage units for the microcontroller for supporting the different hardware for the operating system such as Mac OS, windows server, raspbian OS, tiny OS, Openlec, etc. The parking system of Sunshine Coast Council is required to be designed in such a manner that it would operate efficiently for covered and open parking space (Chatzigiannakis, Vitaletti and Pyrgelis 2016). A figure is drawn that demonstrates the IOT architecture for the development of the smart parking system and it describes the status of the parking slot, the parking area and the availability of the vehicle. Figure 1: System architecture for the proposed car parking for Sunshine Coast Council (Source: Created by author) Different components are required for the development of the smart parking system such as: Centralized server: It would be used for the maintenance of the database of the organization and the information of the parking sensors installed in the different point of the parking lot. Raspberry Pi: It is a microcontroller used for controlling the different IoT devices that are installed in the parking lot of Sunshine Coast Council and control the camera modules and the sensor used for the detection of the free space. Camera: It is used for capturing the video footage and the images of the parking lot for detection of the free space available (Geng and Cassandras 2013). Navigation system: It is used for sending the signals of the free space to the user entering the parking lot and navigate the driver to the free space Monitor: Display devices are installed in different location of the parking lot displaying the different information and the available parking space to the customer of Sunshine Coast Council. The admin side also uses the monitor for keeping track on the interface and the device used the parking system (Ji et al. 2014). User device: It defines the devices used for creating a connection with the parking system and it may be smart phones or other handheld devices. The SPS is combined with the features of the raspberry pi and is attached with the camera for making survey on the parking and continuously checking the free space and the filled space. Some control points are added with the above figure for using reference points for the camera (Ji et al. 2014). The central server is used for the storing information of the multiple slots of the single parking area and it can be accessed using some protocols like HTTP, CoAP, etc. using any browser within Sunshine Coast Council. The central server is updated frequently with a change in the parking slot. The user can access the stored information from any remote location using the devices and the information can be used to prepare a statistical report regarding the usage of the parking space for the managers. Solution 2: The second solution for the development of the smart parking system is proposed for including the integrated electromechanical transmission control, automated placement, detection system and controlling the security of the parking lot (Kang et al. 2015). The design of the parking lot is made to automate the operation and transmit the data to the different controllers installed in the parking lot. Once the vehicle enters, the car parking system the vehicle is scanned and its dimension is stored in the central database and available parking space is searched and allotted to the vehicle within Sunshine Coast Council. The sensors are used for checking entry point and automatically move the car into the parking space. The IOT devices used in the parking system are interconnected, they communicate with each other, and the data is stored in the cloud servers (Karbab et al. 2015). The electronically programming of the system driving parking and the retrieval process controlled by the program mable logical controller PLC which helps the parking attendant manually use the system using the direct control panel installed on the every floor of the parking lot. A unique programming is required for controlling the remote location and the hardware devices installed in the gateway and allow monitoring the different operation of the parking system within Sunshine Coast Council. The IOT gateway uploads the data continuously in the database servers and alert the admin about any problem arising in the parking lot. The installation of the IoT devices helps to eliminate the risk associated with the system and reduces the cost of maintenance of the service (Kuran et al. 2015). The cloud computing can be applied with the IoT devices for the development of the value added service such as locating the nearby parking lot of the sunshine coast. The free space of the nearby parking lot can be got accessing the cloud information and the GPS location tracking the sensors installed in the parki ng space of Sunshine Coast Council. Different OT devices are installed in different position such as the gateways, software building block and the hardware building block for computing and connectivity with the different components of the car parking system (Ma and Mohammed 2014). The IoT devices sends information to the central server and the central server processes the data and sends request to the control unit for controlling the devices. The devices are required to be connected with a strong network backbone for processing real-time data and the server must not be located far away from the parking system because it may cause lag in the process and reduce the efficiency. The use of IoT device for the measurement of the dimension of the vehicle helps to efficiently use the space. It also reduces the need to visit the parking lot because it automated the process and also reduce the maintenance cost of the system (Mahmu et al. 2013). Thus, an ADLINK-Intel IoT solution can be implem ented in the automated parking system and it is an application ready platform that helps the development team to quickly integrate the devices in the system and develop the project. Comparison Between the Two Proposed Solution The above two solution are compared and the first solution proposed controls all the activities of the IoT devices using a central micro controller board and if the central board fails the whole system would collapse. This risk is mitigated in the second solution where different controllers are located in different parts of the parking lot. The first solution meets the basic needs of the car parking system and less cost is needed for the application of the parking system whereas the second solution is complex and incurs more cost for the proper application and working. More IoT devices are required to be installed in the parking system for analyzing the dimension of the car and thus a strong network backbone is required for connecting the devices and process the data generated from the devices. The measurement of the dimension of the vehicles helps to provide the space efficiently to the user and increases the accommodation capacity of the vehicles but this option is unavailable in t he first solution. The second solution is more secure than the first solution because the central server is isolated and connected with the different servers placed in the control points of the parking lot and thus authorized personnel would have the physical access of the server. Existing Technology Solutions There are different existing technologies that can be applied for the rapid development of the project and reduce the risk of failure such as WAVIOT, OpenIoT, LoRaWAN, etc. WAVIOT: The WAVIOT is a wireless solution for connecting the parking sensors of Sunshine Coast Council. The wireless parking technology is easy for installation and reduces the cost of the wires. It also reduces the maintenance cost and connects the sensors buried in the parking space (Mainetti et al. 2014). External power like long life batteries are required to be connected with the IoT devices transmitting data from the devices to the server connected with the wireless access point. The WAVIoT sensors can also be connected with the third party application and devices for sending and receiving data to the server. It have an user friendly interface design that shows the free and the occupied parking space and management option for accessing permission for the different groups of users within Sunshine Coast Council. It also has high availability, reliable and highly scalable for adding new devices in the parking system (Mehta et al. 2016). WAVIOT offers effective smart devices that p rovide long range connectivity for delivering wide area remote sensing applications. In addition to this, the plug in play station offers low cost IoT applications to the users. OpenIot: The OpenIot is an open source cloud solution for the internet of things and has seven different elements that are categorized in the three different planes such as Application plane, Virtualized plane and the Physical Plane. In the application or the utility plane includes the following modules: Request definition module, configure and monitor module and request presentation module (Patil and Bhonge 2013). In addition to this, the virtualized plane includes the followings: Schedulers, database storages and service delivery and utility manager. Third plane involved in this technological solution is physical plane that involves sensor middleware, schedulers and other physical network elements that are important for IoT applications. The utility plan of this technology offers web 2.0 interfaces that provides effective and specific request adoption and comprises a set of services and delivers it to the client at the right time slot (Pham et al. 2015). The utility manager is resp onsible for managing the request collection and management of those requests. LoRaWAN: This is another technological advancement and offering of IoT. In addition to this, LoRaWAN is media access control protocol that is used for wide area networks (Polycarpou Lambrinos and Protopapadakis 2013). in contrast with this fact, this protocol is offered in order to provide effective communication and internet connectivity to the users. LoRaWAN can be mapped with the second or third layer of the OSI model. FSK modulation technique is used in this technical advancement of IoT applications within Sunshine Coast Council. Generally these modulation techniques are used in the industrial applications and scientific domains for utilizing the IoT (Salpietro et al. 2015). In addition to this, LoRaWAN is defined as the LoRa Alliance and generally formalized in LoRaWAN Specifications. The future need of the Sunshine coast council is expected to increase and thus the second solution is the most appropriate that meets the business needs of the organization. The different existing technologies discussed above can be applied for rapid development of the car parking system. The implementation of the existing technology would benefit the organization by eliminating the risk that may occur due to hosing of the new technology. The WAVIoT solution can be chosen for connecting the sensors wirelessly which can connect newly installed to the system without the need of cabling and extra hardware cost for the implementation (Kang et al. 2015). The OpenIoT can be selected for managing the IoT devices with an simple interface and track the data generated from the devices. The LoRaWan can be deployed for interconnecting the different parking system of the Sunshine Coast and managing the system centrally. Data Storage and Processing Facilities Data storage is very important for managing various data sources involved into the system architecture of technical applications. In addition to this, Sunshine Coast Council can implement these data storage easily in order to maintain their databases involved into the system architecture technical appliances (Shin and Jun 2014). In contrast with this fact, data centers, cloud computing, distributed storage and processing approaches are generally discussed in this part of the assignment with respect to the demands of Sunshine Coast Council. These data facilities and important aspects are elaborated in this part of the assignment. Data centers: Data centers are the main element that manages the data centralized into a organization. Sunshine Coast Council can easily manage their databases, distributed databases and data transfers within the network with the help of these data centers (Suryady et al. 2014). Sunshine Coast Council wants to implement such a parking application that will sense the parking spaces and routes etc within the parking system. All of this information needs to be stored within these data centers. Cloud Computing: Cloud computing is used in smart parking applications. In addition to this, a smart parking system incorporates various tracking and mobile data management operations that only can be managed with the help of cloud computing applications (Zheng et al. 2015). In addition to this, cloud stores all data transfer through the network of smart parking application. Car parking system includes various database management systems within the system architecture of Sunshine Coast Council. These databases are made connected with and easily accessible with the help of cloud computing applications. In addition to this, the cloud computing approach offers private, protected and public accessing measures that are very important for Sunshine Coast Council in order to specify the data access to their clients and customers. Distributed Storage : Distributed storage is helpful in storing huge amount of data as well as various types of data within the database storages. Sunshine Coast Council will be benefitted with the help of distributed storage applications within their organization as smart car parking applications includes various data within the system architecture of the organization (Bonde et al. 2014). There are servers within a smart car parking system that should get effective supply of data involved in this application. Distributed storages offers data accordingly with the demands of the application server as well as other servers involved into the smart car parking system. Data Processing: Sunshine Coast Council needs easy access and operations on the databases in order to maintain effective operating system within the smart car parking system. In addition to this, data processing is one of the most effective ways that offers the applications based on the data such as data retrieval, data transfers, database management etc (Chatzigiannakis, Vitaletti and Pyrgelis 2016). All of these operations are easily performed with the help of data processing option within the smart parking system. Cost Important elements for smart parking application Cost per element Power Utilization/ storage $20,000 Initial hardware and software cost $50,000 Implementation of security and privacy standards $40,000 Openness or ease of use $20,000 Data ownership or accessibility $40,000 Data storages $60,000 implementation IoT applications $70,000 Cost structure analysis is one of the most important stages before planning of implementing new technological application. Smart parking applications are beneficial technological advancement that includes various technical equipments and measures within the implementation process (Geng and Cassandras 2013). In addition to this, this cost estimation process is supportive to the implementation process of smart car parking system within the system architecture of the Sunshine Coast Council. IoT system implementation process demands for various cost effective measures. Important elements used in the smart parking applications are elaborated in the above table. These cost structure will be helpful to the organizational heads of Sunshine Coast Council to estimate the actual cost for implementing the smart parking application. Conclusion This can be concluded that the smart car parking applications are important for managing parking operations. 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