Real Time Monitoring and Control of Solar based Smart Car Parking Canopy

Abstract

India is having a larger potential to harvest solar power. With the advent technology in solar panel manufacturing, the efficiency of the solar panel increases to more than 40%. But with the increase in vehicle production and world population, more and more parking spaces and facilities are required. The objective of this paper is to present an idea on "Real Time Monitoring And Control Of Solar Based Smart Car Parking Canopy". Because of shortage of land area for solar panel installation, researchers are looking for effective usage of available space for energy harvesting. Space to energy (STE) is the upcoming area of research. Mounting a roof top solar panel canopy in the existing car parking lot to harvest the renewable energy and to monitor and control the solar parameters. In addition to this an intelligent system is developed for identifying the availability of vacant space using parking sensors. It is planned to display the parameters of the solar panel and vacant space in the parking lot and the name of the parked car user as an integrated LED console. From the derived solar energy designated converter, which will act as a charging port for the PEV (plug-in electrical vehicle) is fabricated. Installation of solar panel consumes quite good amount of space. The system architecture defines the essential design features such as location of sensors, required number of sensors, solar panels and LEDs for each level.