Vehicle parking place is one of the major problem in day to day life and it is indirectly leads to the traffic congestion. This paper presents the IOT based parking place detection using the mobile app. The user can able to check the nearest parking place availability and reserve the parking slot using mobile application. The mobile application will act as an interface between the end user and the system. Infrared sensor is placed at the parking slot along with the arduino. Infrared sensor is

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... ed to detect whether the slot is occupied or empty and it is updated to the cloud using the GSM. Arduino is used to track the number of vehicles parked in the parking area.