International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing, July 28 - 30, 2020, India

QR Code based Smart Parking System

Vedant Deepak Dokania, Mayur M. Sevak, Dev Dineshkumar Patel and Pratham Shriharsh Barve


Abstract—In the modern era of rapid growth and development,
the demand for cars has increased gradually. With the demand,
the problem of finding the appropriate parking space is now a key
challenge. To remember the place where one has parked the car
in the crowd of 500-600 cars is a troublesome situation for
anyone. Unwanted use of parking space because of the lack of
feasibility and payment method leads to a huge loss for the
vendors of parking space. Finding an appropriate parking space
needs a lot of time. The advanced developed parking ecosystem
can solve much of the problem mentioned above. A hassle-free
system will help both vendor and user to overcome most of the
problem as well as it eases the payment method and saves time.
The use of QR(Quick Response) code and a dedicated app can
overcome the problems of the existing parking system.
Index Terms—QR code, dedicated app, parking space,UI.
I. INTRODUCTION
II. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
A simple yet modern system based on QR code can easily
be adopted by small vendors with less capital investment.
Three different apps have been created with android studio and
ui is designed with the help of the figma app. On the successful
installation of an app, a user gets its unique QR code which
contains basic information like name, car number, etc. A user
has two different options to book parking spaces. One can
book parking spaces from home or visit a parking lot to book
parking spaces. User needs to pay advance charges for
booking online via different online payment platforms like
Paytm, Google pay, Bhim upi, etc. On successful payment, a
parking space is allotted to the user for a particular time. For
onsite booking, when a user enters the parking lot he needs to
scan his code in the scanner app. The scanner app scans the
code and allots the parking space to the user. The entry time of
scanning is being recorded by the system. After completion of

I N the modern era, it's very difficult to build a new

infrastructure for parking. Along with the exponential
growth in the automobile industry, parking problems increase
the work, the user has to follow the same steps to pay the bill.
At exit site user again scans his code and based on the time of
utility bill is being generated. The list of slot booked and
at the same pace. Most of the existing parking system includes revenue generated is being displayed in the admin app. The
various sensors like the ultrasonic sensor, GPS (Global whole process described above is illustrated in Fig. 1.
positioning system). The installation cost of these types of
sensors needs huge investments along with daily maintenance
charges. These types of sensors can't be operated in an open
parking space. Most of the sensors are easily affected by rain
or sun rays. These types of systems can't solve most of the
problems prevailing in the parking industry[1-3]. The use of
hydraulics in modern automated parking systems needs a huge
capital as well as electric power investment. The new parking
system needs much change in existing infrastructure and is not
feasible for a small vendor[4]. The cost of building a new
parking space along with sensors is the reason behind the non-
popularity of the hardware-based parking system. The use of
manpower to operate a modern parking system can also be
overcome by the new prescribed system[5-8].
The paper is organized as follows: Section II and Section III
describe the architecture and related work of the system Fig. 1. Block diagram of parking system
respectively. The Section IV discusses the evaluation results. A. Parking Space Distribution And Allotment
At last, section V concludes the paper.
The whole parking lot is divided into 3 sub divisions. One
for online parking, second for onsite parking and third for
Vedant Deepak Dokania, Prof Mayur M. Sevak , Dev Dineshkumar Patel dispute solving. Each vendor on analysis can change the layout
and Pratham Shriharsh Barve are with department of Electronics and for his parking space in the vendor(admin) app. The use of a
Communication Engineering, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Anand,
India. (e-mail: vedantdokania2000@gmail.com third space is to solve any conflict and are generally less in
mayur.sevak@bvmengineering.ac.in dpatel2905@gmail.com number.
prathambarve206@gmail.com)

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 Parking spaces are allotted on a first-come-first-served
basis. The nearest parking lot is filled first then the farthest
one. These will help the user to save time and also reduces the
problem of traffic in the parking area as cars move in a well-
defined path.
In Fig. 2 one layout is shown for a parking space where a
number of onsite users are more as compared to online
booking. Moreover, the third lot is kept small and can be used
if someone parked in wrong allotted parking space. In such
case the penalty will be charged by the user. One has option to
extend the time of parking only till 30 mins of booking. Each
slot is allotted after intervals of 30 mins only. In case user
parked the car in the same slot after the time extension, and
same slot is booked by some another user than to avoid
concurrency the user will be diverted to “C” parking lot which
is used to solve such types of issues. Also some grace time is
also given to each user as decided by the vendor of the parking Fig. 3. Unique QR code generated for user.
lot.

Fig. 2. Parking layout showing different parking sections.

B. Different Application designed for system Fig. 4. Options available for booking parking space.

1. User app 2. Admin app

x Secure user login page where user need to fill up
some basic information and its QR code will be
generated .
x Then parking mode will be displayed- online or
offline.
x Payments and space allotted history can also be
accessible from user app.
x Current bills and related information is also shown
in app.
x Fig. 3 shows the prototype designed in Figma app.
A user “Dev Patel” has successfully registered and
a unique QR code is generated for him .
x Fig. 4 demonstrates two options given to user for
booking- Book online and Onsite Booking.
x This app will monitor online and offline parking
space allotment.
x It has access to edit parking allotted space and
increase or decrease or shut down the parking
space allotment.
x It has also access to the payment history of any
customer and also enforce penalty on
customer(if applicable).
x Any query or feedback is directly linked from
user app to an administrative app.
x Graphical representation of daily generated
revenue from parking charges is also an added
feature.
x Fig. 5 shows GUI options given to admin.

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Fig. 5. Admin app GUI
3. Scanner app
x Scanner app will scan the QR code of the user
and allot the nearest available parking space.
x It will store the allotted space to firebase
(database).
x Real time allotment of parking space is done
with the help of firebase .
x Also scanner app stores the entry and exit time
of the user and generate a bill.
x Generated bill is being displayed both on admin
as well as user app.
x Fig. 6 shows the GUI of scanner app .Parking
space is allotted to the user after QR code is
scanned.
Fig. 6. Illustrating the alloted parking space
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III. RELATED WORK
We recently went through many research papers which have
published idea or mechanisms related to our sort of process on
parking in a different set of conditions, but their core idea is
satisfactorily different from ours in variety of areas like its
specifications, process, and outcomes.
There are majorly two research papers which are similar to
ours,
Smartphone-Based car searching system for Parking lot [1]
- Junhuai Li, Yang An
In the paper they tried to make a system that finds your car
from the parking area with the help of QR code. Their process
is done by their app and real-time navigation protocol.
NB-IoT based smart car parking system [2]
-M.praveen, V.harini
In this research paper, they made IOT Based parking system
where they find the car or allot parking slots to cars. But as a
matter of fact, in this whole system, they need the number of
sensors to connect each parking slot and NB IOT module to
control the sensors. And so this makes system costly and bit
complex to do some work that we are doing with much lesser
cost and complexities.
IV. EVALUATION AND RESULTS
On a trial basis, the app is being used by a small vendor for
a few days. The revenue generated by the vendor has increased
subsequently. Also, the problem of traffic jams and searching
for a free parking lot is also solved.
In Fig. 7 the comparison has been done between two
customers:- customer 1 and customer 2. In time vs money
graph(INR), on online booking customer 1 does not exceed the
allotted time limit whereas customer 2 exceeded the time limit
so extra charges are added to his bill. The vendor has all rights
to increase or decrease the bill amount and per hour charges.
Fig. 7. Price comparison among two customer.
V. CONCLUSION
By adopting the new software-based system most of the
problems related to the existing parking systems like proper
space management, time management, and traffic
problems(due to random movement of cars in search of
parking space) can be solved easily. Indeed our parking system
is also cost effective as compared to the existing parking
system. This system can easily be adopted by various small
and large parking vendors without much change in the existing
parking infrastructure. On further advancement, the system can
also be used for two-wheeler parking and provide much more
flexibility.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to acknowledge the Electronics and
Communication department of Birla Vishvakarma
Mahavidyalay a college for providing us the platform to
showcase our knowledge. We would also like to acknowledge
our colleagues Nirbhay Chaplot and Prathamesh Dave for
providing us the valuable feedback of wisdom for our paper.
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