Solution for parking

Solution for parking
Finding parking space in large commercial office buildings during peak hours is nothing short of a nightmare. A couple of final year students of Electronics and Communication Department, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering have come up with a solution to this frustrating problem.


Pradeep D, Naveen B R, Deepika S N and Gulnaz Aafreen B, as a part of their project work have successfully developed a new and innovative system that will eliminate crucial time spent in searching for parking spaces in office buildings. They call it the ‘Multilevel Parkmatic with SMS Facility’. Parkmatic is an automatic parking system with computerised robotic functions enabling optimum use of available spaces at all levels. It is a driver free mechanical operation used to construct car parks in urban courtyards with the aim of achieving an economical concentration of car parks in a limited area. It aims to reduce management costs, improve user safety and speed up car transfer.

This automated parking system is a method of automatically parking and retrieving cars using a microcontroller based system of pallets, lifts and carriers. For the drivers, the process is simple. They park their car at the entrance point and leave. From there on, the car is automatically moved through the parking system. It is returned to the driver in the same manner using a signalling device. The signalling device used in this project is an SMS facility.

Once the car is allocated into the system, the system generates a code which is sent as a text message to the car owner using GSM modem. This code is entered back by the car owner during the retrieving process.

“Our model is the first of its kind in India. Our college is thinking about implementing it in its new building,” says a proud Pradeep. Hope this model will ease parking worries.