Internet of Things

Exploring the Windows 10 IoT on RPi2

Once you are done flashing the microSD card, carefully eject it from the computer before

removing. Now plug in the card to the Raspberry Pi 2 and turn on the power supply. You must

see a Windows 10 logo flashing up a bit and then it will leave you with a blank screen. If this

black screen stays black for a while don’t panic and turn o the Raspberry Pi. Be patient with the

setup, within few minutes you will see the Windows 10 IoT front end.

Getting Started with Windows 10 IoT

To make the full use of Windows 10 IoT on Raspberry Pi 2, you are needed to install the develop-

ment environment on your other full-scale Windows PC. That main computer will be used to

send over application data to start straight on the RPi 2.

This process might seem a little complicated at first. That’s why many people head towards

the native Raspberry environment that is, Raspbian. To use Windows you will also need to

download Visual Studio Community. It is the free version of the Visual Studio developer tools by

Microsoft. You will be using this studio to create programs for the IoT devices from Windows.

What we will do after the Install?

Just before sending any new application to the Raspberry Pi 2, you are needed to install PowerShell

to your computer and Pi2 to enable them to talk to each other over your home internet. The Pi2

doesn’t have any built-in Wi-Fi. Thus, your Pi 2 is needed to be connected to your router by an

Ethernet cable. Microsoft is already oering decent tips on getting PowerShell working on its

developer zone. Once you are connected to the internet, then you are ready to use the smallest

Windows 10 machine. The Windows 10 IoT enabled Raspberry Pi 2 is one of the best platforms

to start programming for the Pi. That’s what IoT version of Windows 10 is all about.

PROJECT 6: SMART PARKING SYSTEM BASED ON IoT BY

USING RFID

Introduction and objectives

With the huge availability of vehicles, today almost everyone is buying cars. However, with the

increase of vehicles finding a vacant spot in a parking lot is becoming more dicult. What hap-

pens nowadays is that you visit a parking lot to park your car and spend over 20–30 minutes

searching for a spot to park your car. Till then you have wasted enough of your precious time

and about half litres of gasoline. Plus, the headaches get multiplied when the parking guy takes

another 10 minutes to find the right change for you. To resolve this problem, we are going to

build a smart parking system that reduces human eorts by searching for free slots for a driver

and calculating the payment for each park in the parking area. This system will help both normal

vehicle owners and the parking space owners to save more time and eorts. Our system will be

able to perform vehicle identification, free slot calculation, and payment calculation.

Methods

The vehicle calculation is done by RFID; free slot detection is done by using a display, while

the payment calculation is done through the period of parking. In traditional parking solu-

tions, people don’t have any kind of automation or RFID to make the parking system smarter.

Plus, more manpower is required to park the cars and to maintain the system. The existing

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