SurveiUance System For Underground Car Park Monitoring

• Main Author: Leow, Sze Rong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/8006/1/2009%20-%20Surveillance%20system%20for%20underground%20car%20park%20monitoring.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/8006/

The title of this project is Surveillance System for Underground Car Park Monitoring, which is an integrated smart system which uses the concept of preventive control to monitor the car park. This system will be utilizing sensors to detect the number of cars going in and out of the car park on the ground level as well as the underground level. The main objective of this project is to construct a reliable sensing system and control system to improve the condition in the car park which is economical compared to other existing system. The input comprises of vehicle sensor and flood sensor. The microcontroller and programmable logic controller (PLC) is programmed to display the amount of parking space and to activate the control valve respectively. The output is the control valve, alarm system, and also 7-segment display. The preventive action will be dependent on the number of parking bays available and the water level in the car park. Since most of the existing car parks do not display the number of parking bays, this project will mainly focus on developing an affordable system to effectively detect the vehicles and display the available parking bays to the users. For this project prototype, the specified parking bays available would be 2 levels of car park and of 10 parking bays on each level. It could display a maximum of 20 bays available parking lot and it will display as FULL when there is no more parking bay available. On an actual underground car park system, we will have much more parking bays to be taken into account.