PLC & SCADA Based Automated Car Parking Management System

Nowadays, haphazard parking problems are common in the city areas, especially in the metropolitan cities. This is a common scenario in the malls, shopping markets and even roadside parking allotments. It is extremely tough to manually supervise the parking of each and every car, keep a record of number of cars and money collected over a vast area. In this project when the car enters inside the parking area, there is a paying booth that is totally automated and there is also a barricade which opens if and only if the driver swipes his card and automatically closes again as the car enters inside. There are Green LED poles in front of each slot that glows when the slot is empty and automatically goes off when the car occupies the slot. Once all the slots are occupied, a Red LED pole at the entrance glows indicating parking full. This easily guides the driver with the availability and non-availability of parking. Delta PLC and SCADA techniques are incorporated in this system. Automatically parking bill is generated according to the time of parking for each vehicle. This system minimizes the human intervention and possibility of fake bill. In case of improper parking the voice message will alert the driver to re-park his vehicle properly into the slot.