Parking guidance and authentication system

Abstract

Whenever the number of parking lots became large the problems related to parking management became more complicated. The most two important problems that related to large parking places are: First, the long searching time for available lots, especially at the peak time. The second problem is the unauthorized-parking situations. Nowadays, there are parking guidance systems that guide the drivers toward the available lots. As a result, reduce the searching time for available lots, as well as reduce the congestion in that parking area. However, these systems do not solve the problem of unauthorized-parked vehicles. This study aims to combine along with guidance system, a mechanism to verify the legality of vehicles parked at authorized-parking lots. Therefore, this study will focus on two modules which are the detection module and the identification module. In the detection module, wireless sensors such as ultrasonic and y-axis magnetometers have proven their ability in detecting vehicles. And in the identification module, active RFID including both tag and reader are very suitable for this purpose. This project has significant implications for large institutions, by making the parking lots that allocated to their staff within the same customer parking area. In addition, it reduces the required manpower for managing that parking area.