As population grows perpetually with an ever-rising rate of urbanization, the rate of vehicles on the road has been rising drastically, a phenomenon that has posed a severe problem of parking within most cities. Filming an empty parking lot has become a frustrating and time-consuming activity particularly during commercial places and urban zones that have a high density. As a result of this, drivers tend to embark on an endless tour of finding car space and this creates undue movement of vehicles, traffic jam, wastage of fuel and higher levels of air and noise pollution. To solve these problems, intelligent parking systems can now be thought of to monitor the parking space in a better way and organize the parking space in a more efficient manner. The proposed system will be an arduino and sensors smart car parking system, which will be designed to provide a simple yet intelligent and automated way of controlling parking slots. It uses a microcontroller in the form of arduino uno, an infrared (ir) sensor, a servo motor, and a 16×4 lcd display. The ir sensors scan the entry and exit of cars and relay it to arduino. With this information, the servo motor will automatically either close or open the gate. In the meantime, the lcd screen shows the availability of parking slot in real time where the drivers can know immediately whether a parking spot is available or not. Such a system conserves time, man power and unnecessary wastage of fuel expenses occasioned by time trying to find a parking spot. It will also help to reduce pollution, improve efficiency of parking facilities. This is a feasible parking system which is not expensive, has proven reliability and can be easily utilized to help make cities of to-morrow cleaner and smarter.
Bushra et al. (Fri,) studied this question.