An Open Source Solution for Smart Contract-based Parking
This addresses trust issues in smart city parking for urban residents and owners, but is incremental as it applies existing blockchain concepts to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of trust and transparency in smart parking systems for urban areas by proposing a smart contract-based solution that integrates independent parking owners into a unified system, with a case study demonstrating its feasibility.
This paper discusses an open source solution to smart-parking in highly urbanized areas. Interviews have been conducted with domain experts, user stories defined and a system architecture has been proposed with a case study. Our solution allows independent owners of parking space to be integrated into one unified system, that facilitates the parking situation in a smart city. The utilization of such a system raises the issues of trust and transparency among several actors of the parking process. In order to tackle those, we propose a smart contract-based solution, that brings in trust by encapsulating sensitive relations and processes into transparent and distributed smart contracts.