Solution Overview

Solution Background

Parking is becoming a prominent issue as the number of cars keeps increasing in cities.

Traditional parking lot management is human-reliant. It is difficult to obtain an overview of the parking space in real time. Vehicle entry and exit and parking payment are time-consuming, and parking space utilization is inefficient.
Vehicle users cannot learn about the available parking space in real time. It takes a lot of time to find parking space, which further increases the traffic pressure.
The transportation department cannot obtain city-wide usage of parking space quickly, and therefore congestion mitigation measures for parking problems tend to be backward.

Solution

This section describes how to use ROMA Connect to digitally reconstruct the management system of a traditional parking lot to implement intelligent management of vehicle entry and exit, charging, and parking space status.

Parking space sensors and access control devices are connected to the ROMA Connect through the device integration module to report the parking space status and vehicle entry and exit information in real time.
Data reported by devices is forwarded by the rule engine to the message integration topic for storage.
A data integration task writes the parking lot data in the topics into the database of the parking lot management system in real time. The data is used for parking space monitoring and charging, and can be displayed on the IOC screen.
The parking space status in the database is opened to third-party applications through the data API so that vehicle owners and transportation departments can learn about the parking space status.

The following shows the process of using ROMA Connect to implement digital reconstruction of the parking lot management system: