Design And Implementation Of An Automated Parking Lot System

ABSTRACT

Due to the increase in the number of vehicles caused by rapid population growth in urban areas,

the demand on parking infrastructure for the general has increased significantly (Polycarpou &

protopapadakis, 2013). As (Polycarpou & protopapadakis, 2013)further points out, finding a free-parking

space in urban areas like hospitals, hotels, shopping malls, event centers especially

during peak hours is more or less impossible, in many cases. Drivers have to drive round looking

for free space to park which is estimated to be responsible for about 35% traffic congestion, air

pollution, fuel consumption and sometimes accidents (when drivers are trying to drag for a

particular free spot). To alleviate the problems, smart parking system were implemented. With

the implementation of the smart parking infrastructures, drivers can easily locate and secure a

vacant parking space at any car park deemed convenient to them. The objectives of this project

work which is to design and implement a hardware prototype of smart parking lot using a

microcontroller based system was achieved, and the components were verified.

This project work was designed majorly using a microcontroller and other components like the

sensors, liquid crystal display, jumper wires, Vero board. These components work hand in hand

in the operation process of the design work, for instance, if a car is parked at slot 1 of the parking

lot the signal is received from the receiving signal of the sensor, then transmitted to the

transmitting signal of the sensor to the microcontroller, then from the microcontroller to the LCD

to display that parking slotl is occupied, zero "O" is the value that shows for an occupied slot.

At the end of this project work, a microcontroller based parking lot system was

implemented, the parking lot system was able to identity which slot was occupied or not which helps in solving the traffic congestion, air pollution and hazardous situation problems.