Final Project (ENX313)

BEng (Hons)

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Student Name : ABDUL RAZEED MOHAMED NISHAD

Student Number : 149149901

Supervisor : Mr. Rajeevan .A

Submission Date : 19th September 2015

Title : AUTOMATED CAR PARK RESERVATION SYSTEM

A Final year project report submission in partial fulfilment of the regulations for the award

of BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Sunderland 2015

Background of the project

Nowadays, the demand for the parking area is highly increased due to the increased number of

vehicle in cities. In this context, it is a needy one to find a solution for the vehicle parking system

according to the modern world. Internet became a friend of everyone and all the people using it to

find tons of information by their smart phones. People find online reservations as a smart way to

save their time in their most works. These days all the processes are been digitalized and provided

as self-service to customers in order to reduce the work load of the maintenance staff

Using these technology, a fine solution can be done as “Automated car park reservation system”.

The system is embedded web page and also would include an easy android application system

accessed with internet, so that the driver can reserve a place to park his vehicle in a time without

facing any difficulties.

Therefore, this project would be a helpful for the people who need to park their vehicles.

Problem Identification

Car Parking Reservation and Maintenance are one of the major issues in Metropolitan cities. In

this case, searching for parking space is always been a difficult process due to less number of

parking areas and slots available in cities.

Hence come the need of such a system which can automatically search available parking space,

and allow for Reservation, Thus it will help the user in saving time, petrol and money.

Aim and Objective

Aim

The Aim of the Project is to make the user easy to reserve Car Park Space through Automated

System via using mobile phone internet.

Objectives

Provide an interface to the user therefor that the user can find and reserve suitable car park

area.

ID number and the waiting time is provided to the users who has done reservation.

Reserve a parking slot for a user until the waiting time is expired. So that the particular parking

slot become unavailable for other users.

Use sensors to find available parking slots by taking reading.

Users are prompted to enter the ID number so that the users will be guided to their reserved

parking slot.

Scope and Limitation

Scope

The purpose of the project is to develop the car parking system which can automatically check

the available parking space and allow the User to reserve a parking space via a website interface

through internet browser and android web application for regular users.

The system is going to develop to monitor the parking system that reserved user’s details,

privacy reserve security for each reserved users and also way guidance for reserved car parking

space for the user. The sensors which are going to use in the prototype

Object measuring sensors

Limitation

The proposed system also has its limitation.

The system has no user registration. Due to this user details are not collected through the

system. There would be also difficulties in making inquiries between administrators and the

clients. This can be fixed by registering clients to the system.

Payment for the reservation is not included in the system, the customer must personally pay

by cash or card by visiting the parking place. By providing internet payment gateway through

the web application the user would able pay online.

When the reservation is made the system displays only the location of the parking area. It does

not directs the user to the parking area. It will be more comforting the user if the mobile

application navigates the user to the parking area location via the GPS available in the smart

phone.

The description for above proposed design

The AVR Microcontroller will be the main components to control the all activity. Distance

Sensor will help to track the automatic vehicle detection in the project. The LED digital arrows

will guide driver to a free parking space using of the particular key Pad input Number, and the

display will be show the input number of keypad and reserved information in SD Card.

On the other hand Ethernet and Router are two way communications between AVR

Microcontroller and Phone/Computer which is used to receive the free parking space data,

transmit chosen parking space data and again receive the chosen parking space Number through

the Phone/Computer via internet.

In this proposal the main use of Ethernet is to provide a network (IP) which will be able to

answer a HTTP request and TCP and UDP conversation to create a simple Web server through

AVR Microcontroller to internet. After opening a browser and navigating to the Ethernet IP

address, the AVR Microcontroller will respond with just enough HTML for a browser to display

the available parking slots from the reading of the sensor so that user can reserve the chosen slot.

AVR Microcontroller Webserver has a specific static IP address which is provided by the local

ISP (Internet Service Provider) and Port within the network. Users (Client) are able to access the

AVR Microcontroller Webserver from anywhere via Internet using the specific IP address once

the connected Net gear Router is configured with a Port Forwarding.

In order to simplify the IP address to the users a domain name is introduced and pointed to the

specific IP address. So that the user can use web browser in their phone to access the web pages

AVR

Microcontroller

Net gear

Router

(With

Internet)

PC/Phone

(With

Internet)

Ethernet

Chip

Sensor (for Detection)

LED (for Direction)

Key Pad (for Identify)

Display

SD Card

The block diagram of the proposed design

by providing the domain name as the URL. Or else they can also use the Android app which is

developed to handle all these processes and give a very user friendly interface to reserve parking

slot.

Final demo Testing

Final demo Testing

Final demo Testing