Developing Advanced Car Parking System with GSM Supported Slot Messenger

COMPETENCY
DEMONSTRATION REPORT
Career Episode 2

CE 2.1 Project Information
Name of the project: Developing Advanced Car Parking System with GSM Supported Slot
Messenger
Location of the project: [PLEASE FILL]
Project Duration: [PLEASE FILL]
University: [PLEASE FILL]
Role and Designation during the time: Telecommunication Engineer
CE 2.2 Project Background
CE 2.2.1 Characteristics of the project
Car parking has been always a considerable point of concern for the developing and
developed countries. I considered it as a world problem and designed a system that can allow
unique and smart car parking system that can be helpful in supporting the modern-day tedious
car parking with the help of the PIC controller and RFID reader. I proposed a prototype model
that can be helpful in implementing a car parking tower that has two floors and two slots per
floor around the either side of the central lift. A central lift has been installed in the prototype
where the users will be asked to mobilize their vehicles and the PIC controller will analyse the
vacant place and the slots and park the car in the corresponding slots. This prototype was consist
of software, motors, and conveyor belts in manner to transfer the car to the particular vacant
space. I have used Arduino IDE software for coding purpose. The real time clock calculator has
been also embedded in this prototype for the determination of the period for which the car was

parked and thus, Ecommerce Company will be deducting respective charges. Therefore, I have
provided a compact design for an advanced car parking system.
CE 2.2.2 Objectives developed for the project
It is necessary for every project to have a concentric objective on which the individuals of
the team can focus in manner to accomplish the final delivery of the project. Following set of
objectives were followed for the delivery of this project:
 To develop an automated and sophisticated model for car parking.
 To utilize the RFID and PIC controller for the development of the parking system.
 To minimize the problem with the car parking in a building and allowing the individuals
to have the exact space for their respective vehicles.
 To use Arduino Ide software to complete the programming and coding of this project.
 To compare and contrast the experimental results with my expected results in the project.
CE 2.2.3 My area of work
I was hired as the Telecommunication Engineer in this project. There were two sections
of the project and we had a group of four team members including guide and so, we divided the
project in two groups. I was assigned the responsibility to design the architecture of the prototype
with one of my fellow mates and other two were assigned to system design section. I developed
the following preliminary design of the prototype of the automatic car parking system:

Figure 2: System Architecture of automated car parking system
I assembled all the components of the prototype including the wiring, soldering, and
proper sized slots and cutting-edges as demonstrated in the following figure:
Figure 3: System Architecture
I embedded and installed “PIC18F452 Controller, Arduino Uno, LED indicators, L293D,
LCD display screen, RFID card reader, GSM SIM 900 Module, Real-time clock and a Buzzer”
within the proposed prototype for the management and delivery of the proposed system. I used
separate IR sensors for all the parking slots and connected them with the microcontroller.