Final Year Project – I

Short Proposal

PLC based Automatic Car Parking System

Batch 2007

Group ID: fyp0720

Asif Ali 07-0337

Muhammad Imran 07-0402
Shah Muhammad 07-0357
Suhail Ahmed 07-0359

Advisor
Engr. Yousuf Irfan Zia

Department of Electrical Engineering

National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences – FAST
Karachi Campus

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A. Introduction:
The purpose of final year project is not only to integrate theory and practical
but also to convey and describe results meaningfully in the form of project
report. It is essential that the potential engineers are able to express their
thoughts clearly in writing and project report is a good exercise for this
purpose. This document is compiled in different sections to provide better
understanding and to share the workload among group members. Students
are strongly advised to read the document carefully and complete each
section according to the instructions under the guidelines of the advisor. The
line spacing is one and font size is Arial 12. There is no paragraph in the
introduction section and the word count of this section must be in the range of
200 to 250 words. The submission of the document should be in time as hard
copy (spiral binding) of the document to the department secretary and
softcopy emailed to: fypee.khi@nu.edu.pk as attachment with your group
number (fyp06xx.doc) as a reference in the field of subject, where xx is the
group id. The title of project should not exceed more than two lines and the
student names should be in alphabetical order along with their roll numbers.
This introduction section will convert into your project abstract later on.

B. Project Justification:
In this section students will provide reasons for project selection, its
practicality, usefulness & its impact on community it might have if successful.

C. Scope of the Project:

Project scope statement tells every single thing you and your team is-and is
not-going to do. The preparation of detailed scope statement is critical to
project success and builds upon the major deliverables, assumptions, and
constraints that are documented during project initiation. During planning, the
project scope is defined and described with greater specificity as more
information about the project is known. Since the project consists of two
semesters of 16 weeks each i.e. 96 contact hrs., so the scope of your project
should reflect an equivalent effort. This paragraph is for reference only and
students will replace this paragraph by their own scope of project; however
the subheadings should be answered precisely.

The project includes the following.

1. Project Objectives.
i. To provide a guideline for proposal to fyp-I students.
ii. To provide a standard template to the students to fill their project
Information.

2. Project Requirements.
• In this sub-section students will provide the project requirements
such as a detailed list of all hardware and software needed for the
successful completion of the project. If the university does not have
the required hardware and software, you must provide details how
do you plan to get them.

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3. Project Deliverables.
• Deliverable is the list of everything the project creates. In this
section students will provide information about the deliverables of
project with their submission dates & few lines details of the
following.
i. Project schedule (mentioned in section D)
ii. Project budget (mentioned in section E)
iii. Project prototype to be displayed in fyp-I presentation.
iv. Project progress report
v. Project presentation
vi. Project poster for fyp-I and fyp-II presentations
vii. Project final design to be displayed in fyp-II presentation.

4. Project Work Breakdown.

• In this section students will breakdown and distribute the workload
and document in the form of table as follows. The areas may
overlap, but the workload distribution should be justified.

Sr. Areas Covered Group Member

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8

5. Block Diagram
• In this section students will provide high level design of the project.

Figure 1. Block diagram of the project

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D. Project Schedule (Timeline):
Tasks/ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Months
Experimentation
Design
Development
Testing
Real-world
Testing
Final Report
Demonstration

Figure 2. Project schedule

E. Project Budget:
Every project has its own budget, which can be determined by various factors
including project schedule etc. In this section students are expected to plan a
complete budget of the project. Each item should be properly mentioned in
tabulated form and the total should also be provided in the end.

F. References:
List and number all bibliographical references at the end of your proposal.
When referenced in the text, enclose the citation number in square brackets,
for example [1]. Where appropriate, include the name(s) of editors of
referenced books.

[1] Your personal PLC tutor

http://www.plcs.net/

[2] Handbook Of Industrial Automation by Richard Shell