Designing and analyzing park sensor system for efficient and sustainable car park area management

Ahmet Faruk Karakebelioglu,Hasan Koten,Huseyin Alp,Ozkan Eren

doi:10.37868/sei.v3i1.id123

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Journal: Sustainable Engineering and Innovation	Publication Date: Mar 16, 2021
Citations: 2	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Marmara University

Abstract

Many problems have been seen in cities because of increasing vehicle density. One of these problems is vehicle density in parking lots. People look for empty parking areas and they spend too much time. While people look for empty parking areas, CO2 (carbon dioxide) emission and energy consumption increase due to density in parking lots. We worked to solve these problems by doing Magnetic Car Park Sensor. Magnetic Car Park Sensor is the system which detects cars in car parks. After cars detected with the system, the system sends information to center server and we can see information data in the system interface. The system helps people to find empty parking lots. As people find empty car park areas fastly, energy consumption and CO2 emission are decreased significantly.

Highlights

Many studies implemented car detection for the car park area
The components like MCU, magnetic sensor, and communication module were searched at the beginning of the research
The Magnetic Park Sensor system was set in ground, whereas the top of the device was at ground level

Summary

Introduction

Some of them were done by cameras [1] which can detect cars in any area and special sensor studies [2]. We designed a car park sensor to detect cars in car parks. We looked for academic studies in order to analyze the systems designed before, with emphasis on the software for a system’s performance [3]. In some studies classification of cars is done with software [4, the accuracy of detection is not stable [5]. The components like MCU (microcontroller unit), magnetic sensor, and communication module were searched at the beginning of the research. The schematic design of the project was started after the components were chosen in accordance with the read datasheets. The conclusions were drawn after the evaluation of the energy consumption and CO2 emission

Schematic design

The PCB design

Working tests of device

Analysis of environment conditions and device’s box design

Detection of system’s benefits – decreasing CO2 emissions of cars

Conclusion