Digital Vehicle Parking Slot Locator

Abstract

Our everyday life is significantly influenced by technology with each passing day. The car parking problem in big malls, offices and public places is becoming a challenge with the growing traffic. We present an idea for an efficient car parking system that can be distributed across many locations hence decentralizing the parking spots from specific limited parking locations. We aim to provide this solution for crowded places. Basically, and initially, we focused on implement our car parking system at Bahria University Islamabad to facilitate the students and faculty. We present a project prototype which is intended to be implemented in near future as funds become available. We created a prototype which is controlled by an operator from control room. The system can also be accessed by web and android application to locate the vacant parking slots so that anyone can find the space to park in the rush time hours. The system works on the basis of collecting information from sensors fixed in parking slot areas and updating the status of each slot as filled or empty. Knowing the status of available space at the parking area through web and android, one can avoid wastage of time which is caused by manual searching for the parking space.