11-05-2012, 11:10 AM
Microcontroller based automatic car parking system
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Introduction:
Automatic car parking system is a kind of system in which the parking system can be implemented using IR. This system allows user to park his/her vehicle in a vacant lane. Now days in many multiplex systems there is a severe problem for car parking systems. There are many lanes for car parking, so to park a car one has to look for the all lanes. Moreover there is a lot of men labor involved for this process for which there is lot of investment. So the need is to develop a system which indicates directly which lane is vacant. So the project objective is to develop a system to indicate the vacant lane. The project involves a system including infrared transmitter and receiver in every lane and a led display outside the car parking gate. Conventionally, car parking systems does not have any intelligent monitoring system. Parking lots are monitored by human beings. All vehicles enter into the parking and waste time for searching for parking slot. Sometimes it creates blockage. Condition become worse when there are multiple parking lanes and each lane have multiple parking slots. Use of automated system for car parking monitoring will reduce the human efforts. Display unit is installed on entrance of parking lot which will show LEDs for all Parking slot and for all parking lanes. Empty slot is indicated by the respective glowing LED.
Objective and Scope:
The objective of this project is to design and develop the Microcontroller based automatic car parking system. We are going to use Infra Red transmitters and Receivers for each parking slot. We have chosen IR module instead of RF module because we want a receiver having line of sight communication with the transmitter. But RF does not require line of sight communication and in case of LDR, there is scope for false triggering due to sunlight or headlight of car. IR technology can facilitate the effective way of communicates to reach the vacant areas. In this project the prototype is getting developed to demonstrate the working model of the above mentioned system. Thereby acquiring the hands on experience of building microcontroller based system and involve in the programming of microcontroller, working with IR technology.
Scope of the project is to design the required hardware and develop the control application (software) to create demo version of the product.
Proposed Project:
There are following major components involved in developing the automatic car parking system
1) IR: We use Infra Red transmitters and Receivers for each parking slot. The IR Receivers are connected to AVR microcontroller. IR rays are obstructed when a car is parked in any parking slot.
2) Microcontroller: A microcontroller is smart device which reads the updated information or data from the IR at regular interval of time through serial interface and stores in its memory. Instruction or data received from IR, it will control the specified appliances which are connected to microcontroller. AVR will come to know that which slot is empty and which slot is full. We have chosen IR module instead of RF module because we want a receiver having line of sight communication with the transmitter.
3) LED Display: IR is the major component which is used to receive the information or data. It receives the data continuously and stores it in the internal buffer. It’s then interfaced to the microcontroller. For transmitter section we are going to use IR LEDs driven by a 555 timer IC. Timer IC will generate a frequency of 38 KHz, which will be given to IR LEDs.
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Introduction:
Automatic car parking system is a kind of system in which the parking system can be implemented using IR. This system allows user to park his/her vehicle in a vacant lane. Now days in many multiplex systems there is a severe problem for car parking systems. There are many lanes for car parking, so to park a car one has to look for the all lanes. Moreover there is a lot of men labor involved for this process for which there is lot of investment. So the need is to develop a system which indicates directly which lane is vacant. So the project objective is to develop a system to indicate the vacant lane. The project involves a system including infrared transmitter and receiver in every lane and a led display outside the car parking gate. Conventionally, car parking systems does not have any intelligent monitoring system. Parking lots are monitored by human beings. All vehicles enter into the parking and waste time for searching for parking slot. Sometimes it creates blockage. Condition become worse when there are multiple parking lanes and each lane have multiple parking slots. Use of automated system for car parking monitoring will reduce the human efforts. Display unit is installed on entrance of parking lot which will show LEDs for all Parking slot and for all parking lanes. Empty slot is indicated by the respective glowing LED.
Objective and Scope:
The objective of this project is to design and develop the Microcontroller based automatic car parking system. We are going to use Infra Red transmitters and Receivers for each parking slot. We have chosen IR module instead of RF module because we want a receiver having line of sight communication with the transmitter. But RF does not require line of sight communication and in case of LDR, there is scope for false triggering due to sunlight or headlight of car. IR technology can facilitate the effective way of communicates to reach the vacant areas. In this project the prototype is getting developed to demonstrate the working model of the above mentioned system. Thereby acquiring the hands on experience of building microcontroller based system and involve in the programming of microcontroller, working with IR technology.
Scope of the project is to design the required hardware and develop the control application (software) to create demo version of the product.
Proposed Project:
There are following major components involved in developing the automatic car parking system
1) IR: We use Infra Red transmitters and Receivers for each parking slot. The IR Receivers are connected to AVR microcontroller. IR rays are obstructed when a car is parked in any parking slot.
2) Microcontroller: A microcontroller is smart device which reads the updated information or data from the IR at regular interval of time through serial interface and stores in its memory. Instruction or data received from IR, it will control the specified appliances which are connected to microcontroller. AVR will come to know that which slot is empty and which slot is full. We have chosen IR module instead of RF module because we want a receiver having line of sight communication with the transmitter.
3) LED Display: IR is the major component which is used to receive the information or data. It receives the data continuously and stores it in the internal buffer. It’s then interfaced to the microcontroller. For transmitter section we are going to use IR LEDs driven by a 555 timer IC. Timer IC will generate a frequency of 38 KHz, which will be given to IR LEDs.