ABSTRACT
In this modern world, the paradigm of smart cities have gathered major popularity. Thanks to the evolution of microcontrollers, the notion of smart city seems more convincing. This study proposes a novel algorithm that helps users to find a free parking space for cars automatically. Microcontrollers like Arduino has already made a huge impact on learning. The widespread affirmation gave a new life to this open source hardware component which potentially became a big challenge to many industrial products and new interests in electronic system and prototyping. The automatic parking system aims to enhance the comfort and safety of driving in constrained environments where much attention and experience are required to steer the car. This paper deals with two major objectives: anautomated parking system and automated vehicle. The first objective is to design a low-cost microcontroller-based model of a car whose working is to park the car by itself when free space is obtained. The second objective is related to automated car parking garage setup. The speciality of the system is the use of efficient low-cost sensors such that the two systems are embedded together working with single power source. The sensors are fixed in the track through which the cars move into the garage or when moving out from the garage. Our proposed system, however, forecasts upon developing an intelligent, user friendly automated car parking system that not only reduces manpower but also reduces traffic congestion, facilitating secure parking system within a limited area. A comparative study of the performance of the ultrasonic sensor upon different atmospheric conditions has also been provided.
