An IP based parking slot monitoring and reporting system.

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.