Smart Car Parking System Using Arduino UNO: Suvarna Nandyal Sabiya Sultana Sadaf Anjum
Smart Car Parking System Using Arduino UNO: Suvarna Nandyal Sabiya Sultana Sadaf Anjum
Smart Car Parking System Using Arduino UNO: Suvarna Nandyal Sabiya Sultana Sadaf Anjum
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This enhances the user to check the status/availability of deployment of an IoT module that is used to monitor and
parking spaces before setting their journey. Here the challenge signalize the state of availability of each single parking space.
is to use the existing resources in optimum level to reduce the
searching time, traffic congestion in the city. Some embedded The concept of Smart Cities have always been a dream for
systems such as auridino, raspberry pi, Tsgate, Tsmote etc. are humanity. Since the past couple of years large advancements
used to develop internet of things applications. have been made in making smart cities a reality. The growth
of Internet of Things and Cloud technologies have give rise to
A few existing parking system which uses sensors to collect new possibilities in terms of smart cities. Smart parking
the information but using sensors like video sensors in a facilities and traffic management systems have always been at
parking system are expensive so our aim is to develop a the core of constructing smart cities. In this paper, we address
system with less cost with more performance. the issue of parking and present an IoT based Cloud integrated
smart parking system. The system that we propose provides
2.2 Deepthi. S, Anil A R has proposed A real time information regarding availability of parking slots in
Survey on Smart Parking System Based on a parking area. Users from remote locations could book a
Internet of Things------ In today life people don’t depend parking slot for them by the use of our mobile application.
The efforts made in this paper are indented to improve the
on public vehicles. They use their own vehicles to travel. So
parking facilities of a city and thereby aiming to enhance the
traffic increases. When people travel through a city the most
quality of life of its people.
difficult problem is to park the vehicle. It causes not only a
waste of time and fuel for drivers looking for parking but it 2.5 R. Yusnita, FarizaNorbaya, and
also leads to additional waste of time and fuel for other
drivers as a result of traffic congestion. At first we use PGI Norazwinawati Basharuddin-2012 has proposed
(Parking Guidance Information) for better parking “Intelligent Parking Space Detection System
management. Parking information may be displayed on VMS Based on Image Processing”------This paper aims to
(Variable Message Sign) at major roads or streets or it may be present an intelligent system for parking space detection based
disseminated through the internet. In PGI systems e-parking is on image processing technique that capture and process the
an innovative platform which allows drivers to obtain parking brown rounded image drawn at parking lot and produce the
information before or during a trip and reserve a parking spot. information of the empty car parking spaces. It will be display
2.2.1 To overcome the limitations of PGI system Yanfeng at the display unit that consists of seven segments in real time.
Geng proposes [3] a new concept “Optimal parking based on The seven segments display shows the number of current
resource allocation and reservation”. It uses the concept of available parking lots in the parking area. This proposed
mixed integer linear problem. When people go through a system, has been developed in software and hardware
downtown area, there much rush and traffic. In this case to platform.
find the available location for parking is very difficult. So
implementing optimal parking people can easily park vehicle
2.6 M. M. Rashid, A. Musa, M.
in the reserved locations. When a person with disability trying AtaurRahman, and N. Farahana, A. Farhana-
to park a vehicle in a city having heavy traffic, So he faces 2012 has proposed “Carmatic Parking Management
several problems in such a situation to search and park the System and Parking Fee Collection Based on
vehicle difficult. The disabled person can park the vehicle in a
specially designed location. The intelligent parking finds the Number Plate Recognition”-----This paper discussed
best available parking, minimizing the cost. The parking and on carmatic parking system and electronic parking fee
un parking can be done with the help of an android collection based on vehicle number plate recognition. The aim
application. User has to install the android application on of this research is to develop and implement an carmatic
his/her smart phone devices, which would have the facility to parking system that will increase convenience and security of
pre-book the parking slot. the public parking lot as well as collecting parking fee without
hassles of using magnetic card. The car parking system will
2.3 D. J. Bonde Jan-2012 has proposed “Carmated able to have less interaction of humans and use no magnetic
car parking system commanded by android card and its devices. In additions to that, it has parking
guidance system that can show and guide user towards a
application”-----The aim of this project is to carmate the parking space. The system used image processing of
car and car parking as well. A miniature model of an carmated recognizing number plates for operation of parking and billing
car parking system that can regulate and manage number of system. Overall, the systems run with pre-programmed
cars that can be parked in given space at any given time based controller to make minimum human involvement in parking
on the availability of parking slot. Carmated parking is a system and ensure access control in restricted places.
method of parking and existing cars using sensing device.
2.7 D.B.L. Bong, K.C. Ting and K.C. Lai-
2.4 Abhirup Khanna-2016 has worked on IOT
2007 has worked on Integrated approach in the
based smart parking system-----Recent times the
concept of smart cities have gained grate popularity. Thanks design of car park occupancy information system
to the evolution of Internet of things the idea of smart city (coins)----- In large parking areas such as those at mega
now seems to be achievable. Consistent efforts are being shopping malls or stadiums, drivers always have difficulty to
made in the field of IoT in order to maximize the productivity find vacant car park lots especially during peak periods or
and reliability of urban infrastructure. Problems such as, when the parking lots are almost full. A solution to reduce the
traffic congestion, limited car parking facilities and road drivers’ searching time for vacant car-park lots will greatly
safety are being addressed by IoT. In this paper, we present an save time, reduce cost and improve the traffic flow in the car
IoT based cloud integrated smart parking system. The park areas. In this paper, a research project which was
proposed Smart Parking system consists of an on-site developed to acquire car-park occupancy information using
integrated approach of image processing algorithms is
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presented. Security surveillance cameras which are readily car parking mobile application is developed for android
available in most car parks can be used to acquire the images mobile phones. When a user enters into a city an carmatic
of the car park. This project is called as Car-Park Occupancy request is sent by the application to a OSGi car parking web
Information System (COINS), and it was tested using server asking for available car parking lots. The server finds
simulation model and also in real-case scenarios. Many the best available car parking lots for this user based on their
different parking guidance systems have been developed and preferences specified in the user profile. Driving directions
designed to shorten the searching time for vacant parking lots. are returned to the user along with a detailed map.
This is especially crucial for drivers who need to search for
available car parks during peak hours or when the car parks 2.9 A Cloud-Based Smart-Parking System
are almost full. Researches on car park occupancy information Based on Internet-of-Things Technologies---
generally fall into four categories – counter-based, wired-
based, wireless-based and image-based systems. Results from This paper provides a unique algorithm which increases the
the tests have been presented in this paper and shows accurate capability of the current cloud based smart parking system [5]
detection result of the car park occupancy. Feature detection and it also develops a network architecture based on the
stream is able to compensate the presence of image noise Internet of Things technology. This system helps the users to
while edge detection stream is able to compensate weakness find a free parking space with minimal cost based on new
caused by low surrounding illumination. performance metrics which is carmatic. This metrics will
calculate the user spaces in each car park. To enhance the
2.8 Ivan Ganchev and Mairtin O’ Droma has parking management, an intelligent parking system was
proposed et.at [6] “A cloud based intelligent car developed which reduced the purpose of hiring people to
maintain the parking system [1]. In this paper it proposes an
parking services for smart cities”------ In this the IOT effective cloud-based Smart parking system based on the
sub system includes sensor layer, communication layer and
Internet of Things. The data that includes the vehicle GPS
application layer. The primary goal of the intelligent car
location and distance between car parks and number of free
parking system is to find, allocate and reserve the best
parking space in car parks will be sent to the data center. Here
available car parking lot for a user who is driving a car in a
the data center is presented as a cloud server which calculates
particular area and to provide instructions for reaching this lot.
the costs of a user parking request and this information is
Sensor layer detecting the car lot occupancy. A car parking lot
regularly updated and is made available to the vehicles in the
detection method is proposed based on carmatic threshold
network at any time. In this proposed system, each car park is
algorithm. An infostation based multi-agent system
an IoT network and it operates independently as a regular car
facilitating a car parking locator service is proposed. An
park. This paper implements a system model with wireless
access control system for reducing the waiting time proposed.
access in an open-source physical computing platform based
At the application layer, an information centre provides cloud
on Arduino with RFID technology. It uses smartphone that
based service. An IOT management centre administrates the
acts as a user interface between the cloud and the vehicles to
smart city via an IOT integrated service portal. A number of
check the feasibility of the proposed system [4].
business services explore interfaces to the sensor layer. These
includes a car parking locator service, car parking supervision 2.10 A New “Smart Parking” System Based on
service, car parking information service, GIS and GPS
Optimal Resource Allocation and Reservations-----
services, vehicle license patrolling, vehicle tracking service.
In this system a new smart parking system is implemented for
At the communication layer various wireless technologies
cities. This system assigns and reserves a parking space for a
provide connection between the application and the sensor
user (driver) based on the users distance from the parking area
layer based on the ABC&S(Always Best Connected and Best
and parking cost and also ensures that the overall parking
Served Communication paradigm. A 3-tier infostation based
capacity is effectively utilized. Their approach solves a Mixed
network architecture could be integrated in this layer to
Integer Linear Program (MILP) problem at each decision
enable” anytime-anywhere-anyhow communication” among
point in a time-driven sequence [3]. For each MILP there is a
smart cities. Different sensing technologies could be utilized
solution which gives an optimal allocation based on user’s
at the sensor layer such as Radio Frequency Identification
current state information and also supports random events
(RFID), laser, infrared, radar, ultrasonic, CCTV, acoustic.
such as new user requests and parking space availability. The
RFID used for embedded parking solutions. CCTV with video
allocation is updated at the next decision point which ensures
image processing for detecting the status of parking lots.
that there is no parking slot reservation conflict and that no
Communication layer includes3G, 4G, ZigBee, Wifi, wiMax,
user is ever assigned a parking slot with higher than the
V2X,WSN, VANET. 3G/4G communication module used for
current cost function value. This mechanism ensures a better
car’s tracking and tracing. Parking meter is an optimal
response from the system along with assured reservations.
element needed only for paid car parks. The architecture
consists of a cloud tier, mobile apps tier, OSGI web servers 2.11 Faiz Shaikh1, Nikhilkumar B.S.2,
tier. Cloud tier provides data storage and computing resources
for the car parking service. It stores available car parking lots, Omkar Kulkarni3, Pratik Jadhav4 ,Saideep
car’s location, user’s location, profiles etc. The recent data is Bandarkar5-2015 has proposed A Survey on
usually stored in Hadoop’s Hbase it support real time queries. “Smart Parking” System-----People owning vehicles
The OSGI web server, it acts as bridge between mobile face parking problems in most metropolitan area, especially
application tier and cloud tier. Considering the great number during peak hours. The difficulty roots from not knowing
of web applications running in this tier, it should support the where the parking spaces are available at the given time, even
deployment of new or updated application without stopping or if this is known; many vehicles may pursue a small number of
restarting the web server. The OSGi provides an environment parking spaces which in turn leads to serious traffic
to modularize web applications into bundles. The bundles are congestion. This paper focuses on different smart parking
registering itself in its environment. A distributed collecting techniques developed to overcome said problem using various
system collects web server’s log data and sends them to the wireless sensor network and providing real-time data analysis
cloud. In the mobile application tier, the first version of the
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3.2 Disgraceful Parking : effectively satisfy the needs and requirements of existing car
In the event that an car is parked such that it involves two parking hassles thereby minimizing the time consumed to find
parking slots instead of one, this is called disgraceful parking. vacant parking lot and real time information rendering. This
Parking can happen when a driver is not cautious about smart parking system provides better performance, low cost
another driver's rights. This is handled by the advancement of and efficient large scale parking system. When car enters the
robotized keen car parking framework. parking area, the driver will park the car in the nearest empty
slot when slot is occupied the LED light glows and when slot
is empty LED lights are turned off carmatically indicating that
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION the parking slot is empty to be occupied. It also eliminates
1. It guarantees snappy and computerized parking unnecessary travelling of vehicles across the filled parking
and simple recovery of vehicles. slots in a city.
2. Up to 3 cars can be effectively and securely parked
in the outlined model. 6. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
3. The surface space required is identical to the In future works, this framework can be enhanced by including
parking spot of two cars as it were. different applications, For Example, internet booking by
4. Most reasonable for parking in workplaces, utilizing GSM. The driver or client can book their parking
shopping centers and comparable spots. area at home or while in transit to the shopping center. This
can diminish the season of the client to seeking the empty
5. Low support levels are required by the framework.
parking area. As a further review, distinctive sensor
6. Sensors utilized have high affectability and are frameworks can be added to enhance this framework to
anything but difficult to deal with. distinguish the question and guide the driver or clients
7. Minimal effort framework, giving most extreme speediest. We will attempt to decrease the mechanical
computerization. structure and attempt to make it ecofriendly.
8. It doesn't require observable pathway operation.
9. Cordial reorientation of cars for driving in and out. 7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We thank our HOD mam and all other staff member for their
10. Security of vehicle. support.
4.1 Hardware Connections:
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