DEPARTMENT OF

ELECTRONICS AND
COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

MINI PROJECT
VII SEM-IV YEAR
Date:-03-04-2021

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PROJECT TITLE: SMART PARKING SYSTEM
USING IOT

TEAM MEMBERS: NAVEEN P NAIR

(3471955528)
ANEETA J JOSEPH
(3471955545)
BLESSYMOL P A
(3471955546)

GUIDED BY: Mrs.Mohana Priya.R

Asst. Prof.(Gr-II)
Department of Electronics and Communication

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SMART PARKING SYSTEM
TEAM CYBORG

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 ABSTRACT

 Humanity is currently experiencing one of the short periods of transition thanks

to novel sensing solutions for smart cities that bring the future to today.
Overpopulation of cities demands the development of solid strategic planning
that uses infrastructure, innovation, and technology to adapt to rapid changes.
To improve mobility in cities with a larger and larger vehicle fleet, a novel
sensing solution that is the cornerstone of a smart parking system, the smart
vehicular presence sensor (SPIN-V, in its Spanish abbreviation), is presented.
 The SPIN-V is composed of a small single-board computer, distance sensor,
camera, LED indicator, buzzer, and battery and devoted to obtain the status of a
parking space. This smart mobility project involves three main elements, namely
the SPIN-V, a mobile application, and a monitoring center, working together to
monitor, control, process, and display the parking space information in real-time
to the drivers. In addition, the design and implementation of the three elements
of the complete architecture are presented.

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 INTRODUCTUION
 Due to the proliferation in the number of vehicles on the road, traffic problems are
bound to exist. This is due to the fact that the current transportation infrastructure and
car park facility developed are unable to cope with the influx of vehicles on the road.
 To alleviate the aforementioned problems, the smart parking system has been
developed. With the implementation of the smart parking system, patrons can easily
locate and secure a vacant parking space at any car park deemed convenient to
them.
 Vehicle ingress and egress are also made more convenient with the implementation of
hassle free payment mechanism. With vehicle detection sensors a plenty on the
market, the choices made may defer due to the different requirements in addition to
the its pros and cons.
 Subsequently, the various sensor systems used in developing the systems in addition
to the recent research and commercial system on the market are examined as vehicle
detection plays a crucial role in the smart parking system.

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SMART PARKING SYSTEM SEI-UVM

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 SMART PARKING SYSTEM SEI-UVM
 Parking problems are not uncommon, especially for big cities. Smart parking development implies an
IoT-based system that sends data about free and occupied parking places via web/mobile
application. The IoT-device, including sensors and microcontrollers, is located in each parking place.
The user receives a live update about the availability of all parking places and chooses the best one.

  The main idea was the creation of smart parking using the Internet of Things and ultrasonic
sensors, where available parking places could be displayed in a web application.

 Used IoT ecosystem:-

 Hardware: ESP8266 microcontroller, HC-SR04 distance measurement sensor
 Network: MQTT protocol
 Cloud & Analytics: Amazon Web Services: AWS IoT, AWS Lambda
 Used Programming Languages: Micro Python, Python, JavaScript
 User Interface: JavaScript-based web application.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

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 WORKFLOW
 The SEI-UVM can be used as a management
and control system of private parking lots, in
which the availability of parking spaces are
shown in real-time to the driver/user through a
mobile app.
 In this app, the user is able to enter a profile
and register the vehicle’s license plate, monitor
the available parking spaces up-to-the-minute,
reserve a parking space, and obtain different
route recommendations to get to the parking
lot.
Fig: Network architecture
 On the other hand, the SPIN-V involves a
distance sensor to detect the entry of a vehicle Moreover, a more detailed explanation about
to the parking space, a camera to take an
the performance of the complete smart parking
image of the vehicle’s plate, and an LED
indicator and buzzer to inform the status of the system is carried out below. When a new vehicle
parking space. arrives and is sensed by the proximity distance
 Moreover, the information on the occupation sensor of the SPIN-V, it takes an image of the
of the parking spaces is displayed in real time vehicle’s plate and performs an image
to the monitoring center that ensures 24/7 processing algorithm to convert from image to
functionality . text. Then, the plate’s number is sent to the
assignation manager at the monitoring center.

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State diagram of the SPIN-V sensor at parking Iots

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 HARDWARE USED
 Design of the IoT Sensor SPIN-V The SPIN-V is designed to be implemented
with the following components: the Raspberry Pi 3 electronic card, an HC-
SR04 ultrasonic sensor, the Pi v2 camera, a LED strip, a buzzer, and a
battery.
 The description of each of the components is shown below . The Raspberry
Pi is a small computer that consists of a motherboard on which a processor,
graphics chip, and RAM is mounted. It is responsible for controlling the
sensors, the led indicator, and the Pi Camera, as well as managing the
communication between the overall system and the cloud services, so that
the system can read and write data on them.
 An ultrasonic sensor HC-SR04 allows us to measure distances thanks to its
two transducers , a piezoelectric emitter and a receiver. The emitter emits
pulses of ultrasound at a frequency of 40 KHz; if an object is found, the
sound waves will bounce. The amount of time it takes for the wave to return
determines the distance. The sensor is used to sense the presence of a
vehicle in a parking space.

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 A Pi V2 camera, which offers high-speed, high-sensitivity images, is used to
identify automobile plates. A LED strip is used in the physical system of the
SPIN-V to indicate to the driver the status of the parking space. Within the
secondary elements of the SPIN-V is the battery that is the power source for
the Raspberry Pi.
 A buzzer is an electro acoustic transducer that produces a continuous sound
or buzzing of the same tone (usually acute) and it serves as a signaling or
warning mechanism. A battery electrochemical cell that transforms chemical
energy into electricity powers all the components.

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 SOFTWARE USED

 Regarding the software, the code is intuitive and

the program in Python is provided. Moreover, the
mobile application has been developed in Android
Studio and the .apk file is also provided. In this
paper , the web application in which the monitor
center displays the parking spaces in real-time is
not shown because the graphical user interface is
still in progress.

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 ADVANTAGES
 Reduce Traffic
 Reduce costs and overhead
 Less fuel is wasted
 Save time
 Takes away the unpredictability of finding a
parking spot
 Increase in safety

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 FUTURE SCOPE
 The parking history collected in this application, can be
used to make statistics and can notify to the user, that
their usual parking lot has free slots at that moment.
 The application can provide an option to certain professors
or employees to select their own reserved parking.
 Provide-ability for user to link their account with islander
account. By doing so they can access their sail account
using this platform and buy their parking pass for the
semester.
 A map with directions can be provided to the user from
the entrance to the parking slot.

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 RESULTS
 An integral solution of intelligent mobility is presented, which was implemented in a
university campus outdoor car parking, aiming to reduce the search time for outdoor
parking in times of greater road congestion within the campus .T he proposed
architecture of the solution of the SEI-UVM is divided into three main blocks : SPIN-V,
the mobile app, and the monitoring center (OBNiSE), where the key piece is the SPIN-V
IoT sensor.
 It is designed as a compact device that can be adaptable to different environments and
does not need an expensive infrastructure installation. In addition, it allows solving the
challenges of non-vision systems (individual vehicle control through the reading of the
text of the vehicle license plate) and in particular the advantage over visual systems as
the infrastructure installation cost is much lower,since it does not require of a wiring
system. In addition, the text recognition process of the plate is carried out in the SPIN-V
device then only the text is upload to the cloud instead of an image or video.
 In summary, the SEI-UVM allows distributing the reserve management to the users and
it is able to gather more information and communication with the user. This
implementation gave way to the implementation of concepts of a smart city on
campus,towards the construction of a Smart Campus, which would allow evaluating
strategies in a system with the same complexity of a big city, but in a environment of
greater control.

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SNAPSHOTS

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