Real Time Car Parking and Light Control Using Embedded Technology

Abstract

The aim of making this project is to overcome  the difficulties which we faces usually while parking our vehicles in parking area and also to maintain the efficient use of electricity in parking.Current car parking management systems utilize human personnel to find available parking areas or use a video based system that collects the information in the form of images and tracks available parking slots. This paper describes an alternative energy efficient system which allots a unique parking ‘slot’. The driver has to park in that particular slot allotted without searching for a vacant space thus reducing the time for parking and making an efficient use of available space. The System additionally makes efficient use of energy by switching the lights in the parking area ON only when a car is in motion. The application is developed on PIC16F877A processor and tested on a miniature prototype.It is very essential to automate the system so that we can conserve energy as well as to maximize the efficiency of the system. In this paper a new method is suggested so as to maximize the efficiency of the parking lighting system and to conserve the energy usage the LED lights sensors. Here automation of parking lights is done by LDR sensor.

 KEYWORDS: PIC( Programmable Interface Controllers); IR( Infrared); LDR( Light Dependent Resistor)