Smart Parking System

Providing automatic solutions to address Parking slots availability issue.

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Inspiration

Seeing chaotic roads filled with irregular parking and wasting my own time in finding a free parking slot made me feel like doing something about it. I did bit of research, looked up for different technologies, learned new techs and found a way of overcoming such chaos

What it does

My model automates the whole parking scenario without any human intervention and provides real time data to users in order to let users know where are the free slots available so they don't roam around finding a spot to park. At the entrance gate the LED displays the Realtime updated data(code is present) received through IR sensors present at parking slots and when a car enters the lot the Ultrasonic sensor detects the car and sends signal to servo motor to open the parking barricading (if and only if there is a free slot available else gate wont open). As soon as gate opens the driver parks the car at the free slot and the data gets updated on the console as well as LED by its own.

How I built it

I used IOT as the base technology along with Arduino UNO that uses various proximity sensors such as Infrared sensor, Ultrasonic sensor along with Servo motor , LED , buzzer . I made all the connections of hardware on Uno board with the help of jumper wires and breadboard. The coding part was done on Arduino's IDE whose code is on my GitHub account link

Challenges I ran into

The most complex part is to make sure connection of each part of hardware is done correctly and the code is properly uploaded on the UNO board without any error , i did run into some code errors but i modified it eventually and now its working fine.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Assembling the hardware along with coding part within a given time limit is something i am personally proud of.

What I learned

I learned that when u want to do something that u are interested in , u make it happen no matter what comes to you . I have my semester exams from tomorrow but i really wanna make my idea presentable in the hackathon.

What's next for Smart Parking System

I aim to develop a payment system along with a dedicated app where users can pre book the slots as per their convenience and can check where are parking systems are installed .

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