PUNJAB ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHANDIGARH

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Minor Project (3RD YEAR) Date of Submission: 14th September 2018

MENTORED BY: PROF. SANDEEP KAUR

SMART CAR PARKING SYSTEM

SYNOPSIS
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Tarushi Paliwal 16104039

Kawaljeet Singh 16104061
Pranav Gupta 16104103
Kanwarpreet Singh 16104110
Jashanpreet Singh 16104119
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are highly grateful to Punjab Engineering College and our Respected Head of Department Prof.

Tilak Thakur for providing us an opportunity to work on a real time project and helping us applying

our learnt skills practically into a project integrating our knowledge about Electrical, Electronics and

Computers through a minor project in curriculum.

It will be a great learning experience as we will be introduced to real time simulations of an idea and

the problems that come in implementation of ideas.

We would like to express my sincerest gratitude towards Prof Sandeep Kaur, for helping us with our

ideas and being a guide and leading us to a conclusion to work on this project of Smart Parking Systems
 OBJECTIVES OF STUDY

• We aim to study the integration of technology to daily life to develop intelligent systems to

deal with the existential problems of common man

• To study the optimization of time, energy and space by creating an artificial intelligence system

• To study an integration of computer coding, electrical and electronics and create practically

applicable systems for the common man

• To study the economics related with such artificial intelligent projects

NEED OF STUDY

• Majority of the times a person must move around the entire place only to find out that there

was no parking slot available to park his car. Or sometimes, he misses a parking space

available which is far off from where is looking.

• To avoid this wastage of time and to utilise the entire space available in a parking area, we

need to have numbered slots for parking which can be allotted to every vehicle which enters the

area and needs to be parked.

• Allotting a single place to every person makes the entire process convenient enough and he

even knows where he parked his car when he returns as he can check the parking slot number

and the route to that number too via the app, like booking a movie on an online app where we

get to know the lane of the seat available.

• Having a slot to ourselves will give a sense of security to the person who parks it. And if the

parking gets full, no vehicle will further be allowed to enter the space. This will save a lot of

time and energy of the driver

 SALIENT FEATURES

• The hardware project will be a working model.

• Installing sensors on all available parking slots will indicate whether the parking slot is free or

occupied

• The sensor through an Arduino or Wi-fi Module will be connected to a mobile application

• The mobile application will indicate to the new car, which all parking spaces are available

according to the sensor results

• This project helps making a beginning in the broader project of Smart Cities, Smart Parking

being a small component of the entire Smart City Project

• We will be making a mobile application on the suitable platform and linking it to the main

circuitry using Arduino or Wi-Fi Module

• We learn to work with both hardware and software applications by doing this project.

HYPOTHESIS

According to our hypothesis, due to increased number of cars in the country, parking is a major

problem in many places.

Major problem exists in the following places

1. Open Parking Places: Local Markets of Individual Sectors that create chaos and hinder the

traffic and create a chaos.

2. Closed Parking Space: Huge parking lots in offices and malls in which it becomes difficult for

a person to find a parking and hence ends up wasting a lot of time in the process
Our project has its major application in both the above-mentioned cases,

In case 1, smart parking helping in notifying the driver of no availability hence avoiding the chaos and

ensuring smooth traffic

In Case 2, Malls and Office building can install such a system to optimize time, energy and space,

ensuring that everyone parks within the given parking lines and not anywhere else.

METHODOLOGY

• Making a working model with some vacant parking slots and a car looking for parking slot.

• Using a plastic model car to represent a driver looking for parking.

• Installing sensors and actuators for detecting car locations and parking slots location.

• Making an app which links with these actuators and sensors through a Bluetooth/Wi-fi Module

• Research on more innovations that can be incorporated in this project

 REFERENCES

• T. Kiliç and T. Tuncer, "Smart city application: Android based smart parking system," 2017

International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium (IDAP), Malatya, 2017,

pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/IDAP.2017.8090284

• P. Sadhukhan, "An IoT-based E-parking system for smart cities," 2017 International

Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Udupi,

2017, pp. 1062-1066. doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8125982

• I. Aydin, M. Karakose and E. Karakose, "A navigation and reservation based smart parking

platform using genetic optimization for smart cities," 2017 5th International Istanbul Smart

Grid and Cities Congress and Fair (ICSG), Istanbul, 2017, pp. 120-124.

• R. Grodi, D. B. Rawat and F. Rios-Gutierrez, "Smart parking: Parking occupancy monitoring

and visualization system for smart cities," SoutheastCon 2016, Norfolk, VA, 2016, pp. 1-5.

doi: 10.1109/SECON.2016.7506721

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319345084_Smart_Car_Parking_System

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=smart+parking+system+project

• utc.ices.cmu.edu/utc/.../UTC_FinalReport_Smart_Parking_Hampshire.pdf

• www.ijesi.org/papers/Vol(5)3/Version-2/H050302048054.pdf

• A Basic Introduction to Mechatronics: Sensors and Transducers by Prof Tilak Thakur