Smart Parking System Using IoT

Abstract

Abstract: Finding the car parking place in huge parking lot is a major issue and it consumes lot of time. In this regard, this project is designed to detect the vacant place and information will be sent to the organizer of the parking place through his mobile phone by which the person can guide the driver of incoming vehicle. The organizer or coordinator often will be sat at the entrance of parking lot by which he can guide accordingly. The system displays about the details of freed-up parking spaces through an LCD interfaced with Arduino board and the same information will be transmitted to the concern mobile phone through Wi-Fi module. This helps the motorists to cut time to park their vehicles. The waiting time to park the vehicle can be reduced by providing this vacant space information to the motorists before he/she enters the parking lot. The system recognizes the vacant space and displays the information automatically. To sense the vehicle at parking place, infrared sensors are used and the output of the sensors is fed to the Arduino microcontroller and according to the received information from the sensors, the controller displays, that the particular parking place is vacant or full. For the demonstration purpose three sets of sensors are used to simulate three parking sites. But for real time applications, the same system with required modifications can be used to find hundreds of parking slots and each and every parking place can be identified weather it is full or empty. In this prototype model, the system is designed such that, when all parking sites are filled and there is no space for another vehicle, automatically the gate will be closed. To simulate the gate a small barrier of 10” is used and it is attached to the DC motor shaft. If any vehicle is removed from its slot, automatically, the gate will be opened to allow another incoming car.