Abstract:
In Kampala, the capital city of Uganda as the population increases, the number of
vehicles hitting its streets also increases. However, there is a decrease of parking spaces
due to the construction of commercial buildings in the previous parking spaces and also
lack of a mechanism of monitoring the slots availability in the few parking spaces
available. This has resulted to pavement parking with its disadvantages and also wastage
of a lot of time in searching where to park.
This project was therefore aimed at developing a system that would solve the above
problem through the following ways namely; monitoring the status of every slot in a
given parking lot, transmitting the slot status information to the central server and
displaying the number of parking slots available in a given parking lot in real time using
a web interface.
The work is arranged mainly in six chapters, Chapter one includes the introduction of An
IP Based Parking Slot Monitoring and Reporting System. Chapter two discusses the
literature related to the system, Chapter three illustrates the methodologies used in
coming up with the working prototype of the system. In data collection, methods such as
document review, observation among others were used. In the design, three major blocks
were considered, this is to say; user interface, hardware design and finally database and
networking system block. Chapter four includes system design and analysis, this is where
all the system requirements are listed and its where the actual system designs are
described. Chapter five contains the implementation and testing of the system. This
explains the system development platforms, the system code design, the circuit design,
the operation of the system and testing. Finally, chapter six contains the summary of the
work, discussions and recommendations.
