Automatic car parking indicator using

Microcontroller
Description:
Now days in many multiplex systems there is a severe problem Ior car parking systems. There
are many lanes Ior car parking, so to park a car one has to look Ior the all lanes. Moreover there
is a lot oI men labor involved Ior this process Ior which there is lot oI 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 inIrared
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 Ior
searching Ior parking slot. Sometimes it creates blockage. Condition become worse when there
are multiple parking lanes and each lane have multiple parking slots. Use oI automated system
Ior car parking monitoring will reduce the human eIIorts. Display unit is installed on entrance oI
parking lot which will show LEDs Ior all Parking slot and Ior all parking lanes. Empty slot is
indicated by the respective glowing LED.

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Description:
We are going to use InIra Red transmitters and Receivers Ior each parking slot. The IR Receivers
are connected to AVR microcontroller. IR rays are obstructed when a car is parked in any
parking slot. Thus AVR will come to know that which slot is empty and which slot is Iull.
We have chosen IR module instead oI RF module because we want a receiver having line oI
sight communication with the transmitter. But RF does not require line oI sight communication.
And in case oI LDR, there is scope Ior Ialse triggering due to sunlight or headlight oI car. So
considering all these points we have Iinalized to use IR module.
For transmitter section we are going to use IR LEDs driven by a 555 timer IC. Timer IC will
generate a Irequency oI 38 KHz, which will be given to IR LEDs.
APPLICATIONS:
1) This project can be used Ior parking system in any shopping mall, multiplex
2) Can be used Ior industries, commercial oIIices and educational institutes.
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