Monitoring Parking Space Availability via Zigbee Technology

Abstract

Abstract-With the rapid growth of vehicle availability and usage on the road in recent years, finding a vacant car parking space is becoming more and more difficult which resulting in a number of conflicts such as traffic problems. In this paper, a prototype of Monitoring Parking Space Vacancy System is introduced using wireless technologies to alleviate the traffic problems. The system includes two modules, parking lot vacancy monitoring module, and master module. Parking lot vacancy monitoring module consists of digital infrared sensor, liquid crystal display (LCD), and Zigbee module which are interfaced with PIC microcontroller. Master modules include laptop GUI display, and Zigbee modules. The user can get the status of parking lot vacancy through the LCD of monitoring parking vacancy module. The Zigbee transceiver on monitoring parking vacancy module which interfaced with microcontroller is to transmit the infrared sensor data when the digital infrared sensor detects the presence of vehicle in the parking areas and thus provide the status of the parking lot to be displayed in master module with Graphical User interface (GUI).

Smart parking systems: comprehensive review based on various aspects

“…The authors in [ 42 ] built a prototype for parking space vacancy monitoring based on wireless technologies. The system can be divided into two modules: a master module and a parking lot occupancy checking module.…”

IoT and XBee Based Central Car Parking Management System

“…The most common wireless communication technologies, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, consume a lot of power and they are not appropriate for battery-powered devices. The recently launched zigbee technology employs the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and is a revolutionary, all-encompassing wireless communication technology [6]. When compared to other wireless networks like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Zigbee is one of the finest technologies to employ because it has many features like a very low power consumption, less expensive, simplicity to develop and deploy, support of large number of nodes, strong security, and high data dependability additionally, it has self-healing, self-routing, and fault tolerance capabilities [7].…”