Digital Parking Lot
the Technology Interface Journal/Fall 2009 Li and Ranga
Volume 10 No. 1 ISSN# 1523-9926 http://technologyinterface.nmsu.edu/Fall09/ Design and Implementation of a Digital Parking
Lot Management System by Xiaolong Li Uma Kanth Ranga
Elec., Comp. & Mech. Engineering Technology ECMET student
Indiana State University Indiana State University xli3@isugw.indstate.edu uranga@mymail.indstate.edu
Abstract - This project aims at implementing a digital vehicle management system using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This digital vehicle management system will enhance the utilization of parking space and help user check the availability of the parking space remotely since the system is connected to the Internet. The project will be implemented in four stages. The first stage consists of embedding the code into a tag and assigning the same to a car. The second stage is reading the data from the RFID tag to the microcontroller. In the third stage, the data is uploaded from microcontroller to the Ethernet network. The final stage is to keep a track of vacancies of the parking spaces. I. Introduction
According to the U.S. Bureau of Transit/Transportation statistics for the year of 2006, there are
250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the United States. These 251 million vehicles include cars, motor cycles, SUVs and pick-up trucks. The New York Times magazine states that approximately a million passenger vehicles are introduced into the roads each year in the United States, which ultimately leads to a parking problem due to limited availability of spaces. A survey conducted by one of the car manufacturing company, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW), shows that 20% of the inner traffic of major cities across the nation is in search of parking space.
At Indiana State University (ISU), 1400 parking spaces are available to the students as against that more than 4000 parking passes have been issued to students in the year of 2008. The
Volume 10 No. 1 ISSN# 1523-9926 http://technologyinterface.nmsu.edu/Fall09/ Design and Implementation of a Digital Parking
Lot Management System by Xiaolong Li Uma Kanth Ranga
Elec., Comp. & Mech. Engineering Technology ECMET student
Indiana State University Indiana State University xli3@isugw.indstate.edu uranga@mymail.indstate.edu
Abstract - This project aims at implementing a digital vehicle management system using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. This digital vehicle management system will enhance the utilization of parking space and help user check the availability of the parking space remotely since the system is connected to the Internet. The project will be implemented in four stages. The first stage consists of embedding the code into a tag and assigning the same to a car. The second stage is reading the data from the RFID tag to the microcontroller. In the third stage, the data is uploaded from microcontroller to the Ethernet network. The final stage is to keep a track of vacancies of the parking spaces. I. Introduction
According to the U.S. Bureau of Transit/Transportation statistics for the year of 2006, there are
250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the United States. These 251 million vehicles include cars, motor cycles, SUVs and pick-up trucks. The New York Times magazine states that approximately a million passenger vehicles are introduced into the roads each year in the United States, which ultimately leads to a parking problem due to limited availability of spaces. A survey conducted by one of the car manufacturing company, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW), shows that 20% of the inner traffic of major cities across the nation is in search of parking space.
At Indiana State University (ISU), 1400 parking spaces are available to the students as against that more than 4000 parking passes have been issued to students in the year of 2008. The
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