Published Paper Details:

In the existing parking system searching for parking space is always been a difficult process. In metropolitan cities it became a major issue due to space problem, no parking zones etc, hence comes the need of such a system which can automatically assists us to search the nearest available parking space in the surrounding area. Thus it will help us in saving time, petrol & money. Most of them are manually managed and a little inefficient. All the work is done by staff of the parking slot. Drivers give the money to the staff directly. Many people are not satisfied with the current management of the parking system and the flexibility of finding empty space to park their vehicles. Parking demand is routinely high at theaters, shopping malls and offices. This paper is to develop a Reservation based vehicle parking reservation system to overcome the problem of unnecessary time consumption in finding parking spot in commercial parking areas. In this proposed system, we reserve the parking slot in shopping malls, theatres and offices by using short message service (SMS). User reserves the slot by sending a message to GSM modem placed at the parking end. GSM modem gives slot number and a password if the slots are available which is used to allow or deny access to the parking area at the entrance and exit. IR sensor is used for the indication of empty slot with a green LED. User can park the vehicle at the given zone, and this is valid up to a certain grace period only after that the priority will be given to next user. RFID technology is used for entering and exiting parking area and also used to debit the amount for parking charges through RFID tag. The main contribution is the system has more security .Thus users can just reserve the parking slots using the SMS.