A Smart Vehicle Parking Management Solution

Abstract

With the increase in vehicle production and world population, more and more parking spaces and facilities are required. In world context, many approaches were suggested and implemented based on sensor technology, image processing and character recognition technology. Most of the parking areas today in Sri Lanka currently operate without or with a small computerized system using a small database. They usually require vehicle owners to walk around and manually check the occupancy of individual spots. The owners are concerned that they are not maximizing profit due the inefficient managements of parking slots. This study aims to examine the development of vehicle parking management system using programmable chip for signal processing and infrared sensor technology to detect the entering and leaving of the vehicle. In the system, lowcost infrared sensors will be deployed into a car park field, with each parking lot equipped with one sensor node, which detects and monitors the occupation of the parking lot. Features of this system include vacant parking space detection, display of available parking spaces, payment facilities and different types of parking spaces namely vacant, occupied and reserved. The solution consists of a web application which is connected to the hardware circuit. Customer can reserve a parking slot through the web application. This system would be tested in the shopping complex environment with vehicle owners. The research has been conducted through quantitative and qualitative methodology within an overall inductive framework through observing the problem. The feasibility of the proposed model has been analysed through financial, technical and operational perspectives and it will be discovered that infrared sensor technology based solution has the possibility to rationalize the vehicle parking management.