Smart Car Parking

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted increasing attentions from both academic and industrial communities. It can be deployed in various kinds of environments to monitor and collect information. This paper aimed at developing an intelligent car parking system that is more cost effective and user friendly than the already existing systems. The first phase aimed at making cars detectable in the parking lot through the use of sensors, while the second phase aimed at communicating the collected data to the user remotely. The system was created and tested in two ten-lot parking lots (A and B), where it was tested physically in section A (lot A1), and in a simulation mode in both car park sections A and B. The project was highly successful attaining a 90% accuracy level, which is inside of the satisfactory levels of utilization.