TY - JOUR
T1 - A cloud-based car parking middleware for IoT-based smart cities
T2 - Design and implementation
AU - Ji, Zhanlin
AU - Ganchev, Ivan
AU - O'Droma, Máirtín
AU - Zhao, Li
AU - Zhang, Xueji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2014/11/25
Y1 - 2014/11/25
N2 - This paper presents the generic concept of using cloud-based intelligent car parking services in smart cities as an important application of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. This type of services will become an integral part of a generic IoT operational platform for smart cities due to its pure business-oriented features. A high-level view of the proposed middleware is outlined and the corresponding operational platform is illustrated. To demonstrate the provision of car parking services, based on the proposed middleware, a cloud-based intelligent car parking system for use within a university campus is described along with details of its design, implementation, and operation. A number of software solutions, including Kafka/Storm/Hbase clusters, OSGi web applications with distributed NoSQL, a rule engine, and mobile applications, are proposed to provide 'best' car parking service experience to mobile users, following the Always Best Connected and best Served (ABC&S) paradigm.
AB - This paper presents the generic concept of using cloud-based intelligent car parking services in smart cities as an important application of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. This type of services will become an integral part of a generic IoT operational platform for smart cities due to its pure business-oriented features. A high-level view of the proposed middleware is outlined and the corresponding operational platform is illustrated. To demonstrate the provision of car parking services, based on the proposed middleware, a cloud-based intelligent car parking system for use within a university campus is described along with details of its design, implementation, and operation. A number of software solutions, including Kafka/Storm/Hbase clusters, OSGi web applications with distributed NoSQL, a rule engine, and mobile applications, are proposed to provide 'best' car parking service experience to mobile users, following the Always Best Connected and best Served (ABC&S) paradigm.
KW - Always Best Connected and best Served (ABC&S)
KW - Car parking
KW - Hadoop
KW - Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - Middleware
KW - Smart cities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84912140788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/s141222372
DO - 10.3390/s141222372
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84912140788
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 14
SP - 22372
EP - 22393
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
IS - 12
ER -