Under Ground parking System using RFID

Published on 20 May 2022. Written by Tej Kumar

Today one of the most important issue which everyone has to consider is the parking management in highly populated cities in order to avoid public disturbance, traffic jams and unnecessary fines. Imagine there is a system where you can park vehicle underground. Once you had parked your vehicle, whenever you need your vehicle you can get it back by simply scanning your RFID card. The parking slot with your vehicle will come back to you. Isn’t this good? Through this project you are going to create a unique Under Ground Parking System using RFID.

You will need an Arduino to interface the microcontroller with RFID scanner, Wi-Fi module and servomotors. You will programme the microcontroller in such a way that whenever a valid RFID card is scanned, the parking slots which are ready to be occupied will move up from below the ground. Once you had parked your vehicle, your RFID card will be matched to the parking slot details where you had parked your vehicle.

The data regarding which parking slot is assigned to a specific RFID card will be updated to the remote server for further analysis. Whenever your work is finished, simply scan your RFID card and the parking slot along with your vehicle will be automatically brought up from the underground storage.

Project Description:

Arduino Uno: The digital and analog input/output pins equipped in this board can be interfaced to various expansion boards and other circuits. Serial communication interface is a feature in this board, including USB which will be used to load the programs from computer.
Wi-Fi Module: ESP8266 Wi-Fi module is generally used to establish the wireless communication between the devices. But this module is not capable of 5-3V logic shifting and will require an external logic level converter
Servo Motors: A servomotor is a closed-loop servomechanism that uses position feedback to control its motion and final position. The input to its control is a signal (either analogue or digital) representing the position
RFID: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The tags contain electronically-stored information.
Motor Driver: Generally the Arduino board is not capable of providing required amount of current for running the motors. So we use a device called Motor Driver which will provide sufficient current for driving the motors.

Project Implementation:

Interface RFID Reader, Wi-Fi module, Motor Driver and servo motors with Arduino
Power the components and upload the code
Scan the RFID and park your vehicle where there is an empty slot
Once parked, the parking lot will move under ground
The data regarding the parking slot details will be assigned to your RFID card and stored in the remote server
Once your work is over, just simply scan your RFID card and the parking lot along with your vehicle will come up from underground
Once you had collected your vehicle, the parking lot will move underground automatically
Collect your vehicle and the parking details assigned to your RFID card will reset automatically
All the data regarding which parking slot you had used, how much time you had used will be updated in the remote server for further analysis through Wi-Fi module

Software requirements:

Arduino IDE : You will be needing Arduino IDE software to write and upload the programming logic onto the Arduino Uno board
Thingspeak : Also, you need to create an account in the ThinkSpeak IoT platform to integrate the system onto the cloud and store the data online

Programming language: Arduino Programming (C++)

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