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The document outlines the objectives and requirements for a smart parking system project. The objectives are to track parking occupancy, allow customers to find and reserve spaces, and improve efficiency. An introduction provides background on increasing vehicle ownership and the need for innovative parking solutions. Key advantages of smart parking systems are reducing congestion and wasted time finding spaces. The project requirements include maintaining a database with customer and occupancy information, and capabilities for operators and customers.

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Table of Content: 1. Objective

The document outlines the objectives and requirements for a smart parking system project. The objectives are to track parking occupancy, allow customers to find and reserve spaces, and improve efficiency. An introduction provides background on increasing vehicle ownership and the need for innovative parking solutions. Key advantages of smart parking systems are reducing congestion and wasted time finding spaces. The project requirements include maintaining a database with customer and occupancy information, and capabilities for operators and customers.

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TABLE OF CONTENT

1. Objective

2. Introduction
2.1 Smart Parking Systems
2.2 Advantages of smart parking system implementation

3. Project Requirements

4. References

1- Objective
The purpose of this project is to track and manage occupancy of a parking and allow
customers to find and reserve available parking places. The system-as-is can be described as
follows. The parking currently operates without any computerized system. The management has
concerns about inefficiencies of sub-optimal usage of parking space (lost opportunity/profit).
Congestion inside the parking is often caused by drivers searching for vacant spots. In addition,
it is well known that a great deal of traffic congestion in cities generally is caused by drivers
looking for a parking space. Currently, the management monitors the parking occupancy by
having employees walk around the decks to inspect the occupancy of individual spots. Some
parking already monitor the occupancy using a sensor system which keeps tally of the vehicle
entrance and exit events that occur in the parking structures.

2- Introduction

Due to advancement in technology man is leading a comfortable life. But at the same time these
advancements are becoming troublesome some times. In past times, people used to travel by
public transportation but now a days the number of people using their own vehicles such as cars
and motor cycles. According to global vehicle ownership and vehicle production statistics, the
number of people who have vehicles is steadily increasing. The number of vehicles in the world
is expected to exceed 1 billion before 2020, and multilateral efforts are being made in various
countries to alleviate congestion due to vehicle growth. In order to reduce the damage caused by
illegal parking and parking space shortage problems, many countries try to develop a smart
parking system that manages the conditions. Users who own cars also want to know the
remaining parking space before reaching the parking location. Many drivers do not know in
advance about the number of remaining parking blocks and suffer from parking. Even if there is
parking space, if the location information of vacant blocks is insufficient, drivers will experience
ineffective movement and waste their time. Therefore, it becomes a critical issue to introduce
innovative parking management system that provides the parking lot users with real-time parking
status information. To meet this demand, a parking management system has emerged, and
researches on parking management system using various methods have been carried out.
However, most researches have not sufficiently considered cost and applicability. Currently,
majority of the existing car parks do not have a systematic system. Most of them are manually
managed and a little inefficient. The problem that always occurs at the car park is time being
wasted in searching for the available parking spaces. Users will keep on circling the parking area
until they found an empty parking spot. This problem usually occurs in urban areas, where
number of vehicles is higher as compared to the availability of parking spaces. These ineffective
conditions happened because of the lack of implementation in technologies. Various systems
have been done to ensure smoothness of traffic in car park areas. From manual implementations
used in the old systems, they have evolved into fully automated, computerized systems. Car park
entrances are controlled by barrier gates whereby parking tickets are used extensively for access
purpose. With the growth of technology, these systems have been simplified in many ways.
2.1 Smart Parking Systems

The smart parking system implemented mainly in the Europe, United States and
Japan is developed with the incorporation of advanced technologies and researches
from various academic disciplines. With its deployment in the car park, it is hoped
that it would solve the aforementioned problems faced by the patrons within the car
park.

2.2 Advantages of smart parking system implementation


Patrons are also able to benefit from smart parking system as parking space
are able to be fully utilized with a safer optimized and more efficient system
implemented. The system is made more efficient as vehicle travel time and
search time are significantly reduced due to the information provided by the
smart parking system.

With the information provided, drivers are able to avoid car park that are
fully occupied and locate vacant parking spaces with ease elsewhere. The
number of vehicles parked illegally by the roadside which leads to traffic
congestion is also reduced as it is absorbed into the car parks. Most
importantly, traffic congestion can be reduced. All this would
eventually lead to convenience for the patrons.

3. Project Requirements

The architecture of the envisioned parking computer system. A relational database is maintained at the
server. The database contains various information, including:

 Information about the registered customers


 The occupancy state of each parking spot: “available,” “reserved,” or “occupied”
 Current parking reservations
 The record of transactions for each customer, such as past reservations, parking usages,
whether the customer showed-up late, or failed to show up during their reserved period, etc.
 Various statistics about the parking usage the operator should be able to view but not edit the
profiles of registered customers. The operator should also be able to set the prices for different
services, such as parking fee within the reserved period, parking fee during overstays, and the fee
for no-shows.

References

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