DocumentCode :
687892
Title :
DisAssist: An internet of things and mobile communications platform for disabled parking space management
Author :
Lambrinos, Lambros ; Dosis, Aristotelis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. & Internet Studies, Cyprus Univ. of Technol., Limassol, Cyprus
fYear :
2013
fDate :
9-13 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
2810
Lastpage :
2815
Abstract :
People with disabilities face many issues when it comes to parking in urban areas which include the limited availability of spaces allocated for their use and the unauthorised usage of such spaces. This paper presents DisAssist which is a system designed and developed based on the principles brought forward by the Internet of Things and Smart Cities initiatives; it integrates sensors and smart phones along with wireless and mobile communications to provide for better utilisation and management of parking spaces allocated for use by people with disabilities. Through the use of DisAssist, people with disabilities may obtain real-time availability of parking slots in an area of interest, reserve a slot and authenticate themselves when parking assisting the authorities with usage monitoring for law enforcement as well as capacity planning purposes. Entitlement verification is possible through a multitude of ways enabling users to embrace technology at the level and format they wish.
Keywords :
Internet of Things; handicapped aids; sensors; smart phones; traffic engineering computing; DisAssist; Internet of Things; capacity planning purposes; disabled parking space management; law enforcement; mobile communications platform; people with disabilities; sensors; smart cities; smart phones; Availability; Cities and towns; Monitoring; Servers; Smart phones; Space vehicles; Internet of Things; disabled parking space; parking monitoring; parking reservation; smart cities;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831500
Filename :
6831500
Link To Document :
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