SimplEEE Parking

Inspiration

As the number of cars used in today’s society is rising, there becomes a strain on traffic infrastructure! To find a safe and convenient place to park the car and also reduce the frustration to plan the journey.

What it does

We came up with a solution SimplEEE Parking. The driver identifies an illuminated empty parking spot through the digital board in front of every intersection, followed by the LED placed every parking lot.

-> Digital board prints the number of lots available in the drive through. -> LED glow when the parking lot is vacant.

How we built it

-> Used separate Arduinos to control sensors and LEDs and send data to raspberry pi via serial -> Utilized Socket to communicate two raspberry-pis wirelessly -> We used an ultrasonic sensor to identify the empty parking lot.

Challenges we ran into

-> Achieve wireless communication between two raspberry using Sockets. -> Finding a proper working ultrasonic sensor and calibrating with the circuit.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-> At the end as a team, we are proud that everyone

What's next for SimplEEE Parking

-> Using similiar approach to solve downtown street parking issue

Built With

Submitted to

Electric City Hacks IV
- Winner IEEE: Best Hardware Hack

Created by

My main contribution to this project was writing the program which converted the values being inputted by an ultrasonic sensor to binary code, which would then be used to communicate with a secondary Arduino unit. Once an object was detected within the near vicinity of the sensor, my program would create a string that would be used by another program to turn on a series of LED lights.

Yuri B
I'm a computer science student at Trent University.
As the leader of the team, I came up with this project idea and designed the overall structure for the IoT system. As for my technical contribution, I setup two raspberryPis to be the server and client so they can talk to each other over wifi. Wrote python script to process data sent/received from the Arduinos. And finally integrated all the pieces together.

Jingting Liu
I worked on the Arduino circuit and code for the LED lights which display number of free parking lots in a row and helped to design the prototype model

Akilarasan Vinayagam
I worked on the Arduino code for the LED lights receiving an array of strings and displaying the appropriate values on a designed circuit board. Also helped with the coding of ultrasonic sensor sending an output string potentially to the LED lights. Other tasks included building my transferrable skills, and slides creation.

Kimberly Chigbo