International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET)

Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2018, ISSN: 2278 – 1323

PARKING AVAILABILITY
INDICATION SYSTEM USING
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
Sk.Asma, ASST.PROF Department of ECE,Chalapathi Institute of Eng &Tech ,
Guntur,AP,India
D.Tejaswini , B.Tech IV Year ECE , CIET, LAM , Guntur , AP, India
S.Uma maheswari , B.Tech IV Year ECE , CIET, LAM , Guntur , AP, India
P.Imhrankhan , B.Tech IV Year ECE , CIET, LAM , Guntur , AP, India

Abstract: II. PROJECT OVERVIEW

IOT stands for internet of things .To easily find an unoccupied
parking space in the larger car park is a problem for many An embedded system is combination of software and
drivers. During the last four-decade, there are many parking hardware to perform a user defined task .some of the main
models are developed. But, the models still cannot solve the
parking problem. The car parking indicator system could be
components used in embedded products are Arduino-uno
used for residential buildings, hotels, offices, shopping centre and ESP8266NodeMCU.
and show rooms, universities, government buildings, airports, ATMega328 Microcontroller is inbuilt in the Arduino-uno.
hospitals, and stadium. The advantages of the parking A Microcontroller not only accepts the data as inputs but
availability indication system are efficient usage of spaces, also manipulates it, interfaces the data with various devices
slots, proper direction Automatically , allotment of slots, ,control the data and thus finally gives the result.
display of empty and filled parking slots .Ultrasonic sensors are The project “PARKING AVAILABILITY INDICATION
mounted in the road, to provide exact direction to the car on SYSTEM USING IOT” was designed such that the status
the lane. As soon as car enters, driver gets information of the of parking slots can be known from anywhere in the users
filled slots and empty slots on LCD board . When all slots are
webpage.
full, No slots available message displays on the display board.
Keywords:ultrasonic sensors,wifi,
III. BLOCK DIAGRAM
I.INTRODUCTION
In this chapter the block diagram of the project and design
The advantages of automated car parking are efficient usage aspect of independent modules are considered.
of spaces; decreasing the land space and increasing the
number of parked vehicles, saving time by taking and
delivering car in a few seconds; providing security and
safety for the car from theft and damages while parking.
As multinational cities are suffering from the lack of
available parking spots and expensive land prices, especially
in vital areas, we were inspired to create an automated car
parking system that can counter such a daily basis problem
to make life easier. The main objective of this report is to
build a prototype of the automated car parking system to
park and retrieve cars automatically in an easy and sufficient
way. To easily find an unoccupied parking space in the large
car park is a problem for drivers. It is because the car on the
road increases every year especially in town. On the other
hand, it is more difficult to find the parking space during Fig 1. Block diagram of IOT based parking availability
peak time and holidays because this is the time people want
indication system
to release their stress and to spend time with family. There
are not many existing solutions attempting to address the
problem. Thus, it is useful to have some technical solutions IV. ARDUINO UNO(ATMEGA328)
that can provide information on parking space occupancy.
The efficient parking monitoring system must be designed to The Arduino Uno is one of the most common and widely
overcome the problem. used Arduino processor boards . The Arduino board makes
it very easy to use the ATmega328 processor by providing
easy access to most of the pins via the headers, in addition, it

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provides:
5 VDC regulated power from the 6 – 20 VDC input jack
3.3 VDC regulated power available for other electronics
The crystal oscillator
TX and RX are serial UART pins used for RS-232 and USB
communications .A/D in Analogue to Digital this input
converts an analogue voltage in to a digital representation
PWM (Pulse Width Modulator) is used to create a square
wave with a specific duty cycle (high time vs low time)

Fig
2.
pin
decri
ption of arduino uno

V. ESP8266 NODEMCU Fig 3.Pin description of ESP8266NodeMCU

The ESP8266 is the name of a micro controller designed by

Espressif Systems. The ESP8266 itself is a self-contained VI.ULTRASONIC SENSOR(HC-SR04)
WiFi networking solution offering as a bridge from existing
micro controller to WiFi and is also capable of running self- Ultrasonic ranging module HC - SR04 provides 2cm -
contained applications. 400cm non-contact measurement function, the ranging
This module comes with a built in USB connector and a rich accuracy can reach to 3mm. The modules include ultrasonic
assortment of pin-outs. With a micro USB cable, you can transmitters, receiver and control circuit.
connect NodeMCUdevkit to your laptop and flash it without Basic Principle Of Work:
any trouble, just like Arduino. (1) Using IO trigger for at least 10us high level signal.
(2) The Module automatically sends eight 40 kHz and detect
whether there is a pulse signal back.
(3) IF the signal back, through high level time of high output
IO duration is the time from sending ultrasonic to returning.
Test distance = (high level time*velocity of sound (340M/S)
/ 2.

Fig 4. Transmission of signals between sensor and object

The HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Module has 4 pins, Ground, VCC,

Trig and Echo. The Ground and the VCC pins of the module
needs to be connected to the Ground and the 5 volts pins on
the Arduino Board respectively and the trig and echo pins to
any Digital I/O pin on the Arduino Board
.

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VII.LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY Our project “parking availability indication system using
IOT”is mainly intended to monitor the status of the devices
The JHD16x2 LCD module has 16 pins and can be operated through ip address.
in 4-bit mode or 8-bit mode.let’s have a look at the The controlling device of the whole system is a Arduino
JHD162A LCD module. The LCD can work in two different uno.NodeMCU ,ultrasonic sensors are interfaced to the
modes, namely the 4-bit mode and the 8-bit mode. In 4-bit Arduino uno. Ultrasonic sensors are fed as input to the
mode, we send the data nibble by nibble, first upper nibble Arduino uno.this Arduino processes this data and transmit
and then lower nibble. For those of you who don’t know over NodeMCU ,which will be received from the web page
what a nibble is: a nibble is a group of four bits, so the lower .In acheveing the task the Arduino uno is loaded with a
four bits (D0-D3) of a byte form the lower nibble while the program written using Embbeded “c” language.
upper four bits (D4-D7) of a byte form the higher nibble. The user who wants to park the vehicle is connected to the
This enables us to send 8-bit data.Whereas in 8-bit web page using ip address .the ultrasonic sensor sends the
mode we can send the 8-bit data directly in one stroke since status to the arduino uno where the data processing is
we use all the 8 data lines. done.the Arduino sends the information to the web page and
Now you must have guessed it, yes 8-bit mode is faster and the lcd board about the status of the slot to the user using
flawless than 4-bit mode. But the major drawback is that it IOT.This way the user can easily find a parking slot without
needs 8 data lines connected to the microcontroller. This any difficulties and in less time.
will make us run out of I/O pins on our MCU, so 4-bit mode
is widely used. No control pins are used to set these modes. X.RESULTS
It's just the way of programming that change.
The project “parking availability indicaton system using
IOT”was designed such that the ststus of parking slots can
be known from anywhere in the users web page.This is
acheivied using WIFI communication.

Fig 5. 16x2 LCD pin diagram

VIII.SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

This project is implemented using following software’s

1)Arduino
2)HTML
IX.WORKING

Fig 7. Practical implementation

of project

Fig 8. Availability of slots in LCD and in web page

Fig 6. Schematic diagram

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XI. CONCLUSION

This designed automatic smart parking system which is

simple, economic and provides effective solution to reduce
carbon footprints in the atmosphere.
It is well managed to access and map the status of parking
slots from any remote location through web browser.
Thus it reduces the risk of finding the parking slots in any
parking area and also it eliminates unnecessary travelling of
vehicles across the filled parking slots in a city. So it reduces
time and it is cost effective also.

XII. FUTURE SCOPE

This project can be extended by adding an application of

booking this car parking slot before reaching the
destination.The can be acheived by using GSM and RFID
COMMUNICATION. And also enhance to send some
notifications to users smartphone when vehicle enters to
particular shopping places and some streets in a city etc.

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