Transcript SmartParkingx - IEEE Computer Society

SMART CAR-PARKING
SYSTEM
Sangamalika Rajakumar
Computer Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing
Kancheepuram
CURRENT CAR PARKING SYSTEM
• Being in one of the Indian Metro Cities which has a highly active
urban life, people face a lot of everyday situations with automobiles.
And one of the top few problems is the car-parking, for sure.
• Car Parking is a task that takes up a lot of human time and effort. And
it happens in a very large scale that is difficult for us to comprehend.
The current system followed for the car-parking is as follows:
1. A car enters the car parking area.
2. The concerned worker there checks for the availability of slots for the car.
3. This checking process involves multiple chains of asking the co-workers at
different slots of that are either directly or through internal calling systems.
4. If there is a slot available, then the car is directed to that place by manual
guidance which is prone to have hindrances at multiple places before
reaching the allotted slot.
5. If there is no slot available, then the car has to go back and search for a
parking slot in some other car parking area.
• We can see that the current method has a lot of ambiguity attached to it.
• And the task, though looks like a routine drill faced on a daily basis
here, would make a huge life style difference in all urban cities, if
improvised.
• Shopping malls, restaurants, movies theatres, multi-storeyed buildings,
open ground events, official complexes and many other places will be
greatly benefited with this kind of a new technology.
SMART CAR PARKING SYSTEM
• The proposed smart car parking system will overcome all the
challenges and difficulties that are there in the conventional carparking system.
• It saves us the time and effort that we put into this task, and also the
fuel wastage can be reduced.
• Smart car parking system will be a revolutionary change in the city
life, which is so filled with automobiles.
• It could help bring order out of the chaos that exists at present in the
car parking issue and make it really simple and easy.
OUTLINE OF THE NEW SYSTEM
The proposed system is very simple. It runs on three main
ideas which are very common in today’s world:
• Mobile Application
• Sensors
• Cloud Storage
OUTLINE OF THE NEW SYSTEM
The basic outline of the concept is as follows:
• The car enters the parking area.
• The driver checks the corresponding mobile application for free
slots.
• The sensors present in each parking slot will maintain a database of
free slots at any given point of time in the cloud.
• The mobile application is updated with that and it, then suggests a
parking slot, after considering various factors like which slot is
near and easier to reach, or simply, an optimum solution.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
• Microcontroller (Arduino Uno ATmega328)
• Arduino Ethernet Shield (Wiznet W5100)
• Ultrasonic Sensors with specifications as follows:
- Operating Voltage 5V
- Working Frequency 40Hz
- Output Signal 0-5V
- Sentry Angle max 15 degrees
- Sentry Distance 2cm – 500cm
- Accuracy 0.3cm
MATERIALS REQUIRED
• LEDs
• 10k ohms Resistor
• Cloud Storage
• Smart Phone
• Software requirements as follows:
- Arduino Development Environment
- Android Studio (Android IDE)
THE METHOD
1. The entire parking area is divided into multiple slots.
2. An ultrasonic sensor is installed in each slot.
3. All the sensors in that particular parking slot are connected to a
single microcontroller with Ethernet module.
4. The microcontroller transmits at least 10µs high level pulse to
Trigger pin of the sensor module. Then sensor sends eight 40KHz
square wave.
5. This square (Ultrasonic) wave hits the car and bounces back (echo)
if Car is present there, else no echo.
6. The captured echo signal will be sent to the analog pin of the
microcontroller.
7. Based on the response, the program in the microcontroller detects
whether car presents or not. Microcontroller updates this data on to
the cloud storage.
8. Now, the connection between the database on the cloud storage and
the mobile application is the final step of this method.
START
Microcontroller Transmits
Trigger Pulse to Sensors
FLOW
CHART
Microcontroller Receives
Analog Signal from Sensors
Microcontroller Program Sends the
Parking Information to the Cloud
Mobile Application gets the data from the
Cloud about Free Car Parking Slots
Free
slot?
Yes
No
Enter the parking
area
Find another
parking area
BLOCK DIAGRAM
WORKING MODEL
ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARD
CONCLUSION
• We see that, this new system is an added value to the urban life style.
• In the current world, where Google cars are introduced and
automated driving is growing interest among the people, this will be
an improvement of great magnitude.
• Automated cars can do the parking on their own, if this car parking
app is a part of their built in system.
• Hence, I believe that this simple concept, when released into the
world, will be one of those revolutionary changes in everyday
activities.
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