PROBLEM:
● Difficult to find an empty spot in a large, multi-storey parking lot
● Number of empty parking spaces is not known
● People have to go around the complete parking lot finding a free spot
● Time is wasted
● Manual assistance is needed
SOLUTION:
● Automated IoT based system
● Uses Bolt Cloud
● Database is updated every 10 second
● UI displays number of empty parking spaces on each floor
● LED in each parking spot to indicate empty/occupied spots
Things used in this project:
Hardware Components:
| Bolt Wifi Module | X 1 |
| Arduino Nano | X 1 |
| Ultrasonic Sensor | X1 |
| Jumper Wires |
x10(6 male-male, 6 male-female) |
| LED(included with Bolt IoT training kit) | x1 |
| Resistor(10 kΩ) | x1 |
| Bread Board | x1 |
Software and online services:
| Bolt Cloud |
| Python IDE |
| Arduino IDE |
| SQLite |
| Vue JS |
| Flask |
Hardware Setup:
Software Programming:
Code: https://github.com/MiSayali/Smart-Parking-System
Basic Working:
● Detecting empty parking spot 
● Indicating empty parking spot
● Display total number of empty
parking spots
Block Diagram:
Flowchart:
Message Flow:
ER Diagram:
OUTPUT:
Debug Log Output:
Output - Spot is empty:
Output - Spot is full
Below is a video demonstration:
Conclusion:
● Automated IoT based system
● Number of free spaces displayed
● Glowing LED to indicate presence of empty spot
● Database updated every 10 seconds
● Manual assistance eliminated
● Time wastage eliminated
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