Claims:We claim:
1) A system for vacant parking space using artificial intelligence comprising of;
a. Database within the website for showing the available vacant space within a vehicle park area;
b. Loading all the instructions on the graphical interface of the user for selecting desired parking lot;
c. Fitting CCTV in the nearby vehicle parking for detecting the status of each parking space to keep the database attached with the website updated;
d. Updating the status of the vacant space taken up by the driver.
2) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said status of the vacant space taken up by the driver is updated to occupied if vehicle is parked in that area.
3) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said CCTV are fitted in the nearby vehicle parking detects the status of each parking space through image processing to keep the database attached with the website updated.
4) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said system automatically selects the time period and assigns vacant space to the users.
5) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said system selects the time period of 30 seconds if user is indecisive and unable to take any decision about parking spaces.
6) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said system considers the entrance to the car park used by users and then the nearest vacancies to the building entrance from the location selected themselves by the users or selected by the system through the General option.
7) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said system reserves assigned parking space for the particular user and parking number ID is saved in the database.
8) The ID number as claimed in claim 7 is used for validation during the payment of the tenant’s duration of stay to calculate the parking fees.
9) The system as claimed in claim1, wherein the said system displays map of the selected parking level together with the exact parking location on the user’s mobile screen and the ticket is printed out to assist the user in finding their parking space upon leaving.
, Description:FIELD OF THE INVENTION:
The present invention relates to vehicle parking systems. The present invention more particularly relates to a system which provides free parking space in the traffic area and also helps to identify the obstacles in the vehicle’s path.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:
The hunting for vacant parking space is a common problem in most urban cities which especially occurs in popular and well travelled places like shopping complexes, stadiums and other well travelled areas or tourist attraction spots. This situation has become more serious especially during their peak time, be it holiday seasons, sales carnivals or any other festivals. This problem arises as most of the time, as patrons come by their own transport, resulting in abundance or high number or transports competing for a few vacant parking spaces. The limited availability of vacant parking spaces often results in traffic congestion, as well as making a driver frustrated in finding an available parking space. This results to traffic congestion as many drivers are queuing and waiting at their favorite car parking for a significant amount of time. The hunt for parking incurs a huge cost on the motorist, and the city at large, in terms of time, money, pollution. There are limitations of a driver’s capability in finding a vacant parking spaces, the lack of well-organized and helpful parking system are also at fault for causing this problem.
Parking spaces are costly to build, parking payments are difficult to enforce, and drivers waste an excessive amount of time searching for empty lots. Accurate quantification would inform developers and municipalities in space allocation and design, while real-time measurements would provide drivers and parking enforcement with information that saves time and resources.
To tackle this problem, the smart parking system has been implemented through-out many countries in Europe, United Kingdom. The smart parking system concentrates on solving the problem of proper parking management by utilizing the advancement of technologies which will definitely help in solving the current traffic problem. Smart parking refer to the technology which allows people to dynamically reserve and pay for parking, whereas system is a set of computer component or orderliness. By general understanding, a smart parking system is a combination of intelligent actions using a combination of hardware, software and data communications to efficiently manage a vehicle parking area. The smart parking system mainly concentrates in solving the problem of parking area management. The smart parking system can be divided into five major categories which consist of Parking Guidance and Information System (PGIS), Transit Based Information System, Smart Payment System, E-Parking and Automated System (Shaheen et al., 2005).
The Parking Guidance and Information System (PGIS) is a system which provides information about the nearest car park and the number of vacancies available to drivers. This system can be commonly located in big urban cities. The Variable Message Display (VMS) and other methods such as radios and phones are used to provide information regarding parking spaces availability to the patrons. The information provides the occupancy status of car parks or selected car park around the city with a range of capability of displaying Full/Available at the entrance to guide the user to the respective vacant area. In order to detect the space usage in the car park, vehicle detectors are installed at the entrance, exits and/or at individual parking space. Common choices of detector used include loop detectors, machine vision, ultrasonic, infrared, microwave and lasers. An example of PGIS has been illustrated by Seong et al. (2008) in their paper which consists of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based VDS (vehicle detection sub-system) and a management subsystem.
Another system which is similar to the PGI system is Transit Base Information System. This system provides parking space information and public transportation schedules in car parks and riding lot. The main purpose of this system is to encourage people in using public transportation as patrons can leave their vehicle in the provided car park at the public transportation site. The Smart Payment System also aimed to overcome the limitation of conventional payment method. It works by revolutionizing the various available ways for payment method in car park with various types of cards, RFID transponder (Pala, 2007) and other means such as mobile phones which can be used to pay the parking fee (Mingzhou and Weiwen, 2006).
E-Parking provides another way for drivers to reserve a parking space at their desired car park facility of choice to ensure a vacant parking space is available when they arrive. The reservation for a parking space can be made via SMS, phone call, through the internet and/or PDA. Geetha et al. (2007) discuss the transformation of Unified Modeling Language (UML) models into software execution models and simulate the performance prediction taking e-parking system as her case study.
The Automated Parking utilizes a computer controlled mechanism that automatically places the vehicle into the parking space without the need for the drivers to enter the parking lot. A complex systems and number of severe accidents in automated parking has initiate to apply verification techniques to develop a software design for an automated parking garage.
The existing systems cannot tell and assist the patrons in finding the nearest parking space to the building entrance and expensive too. So there is a need for a system which provides free parking space in the crowded area and also helps to identify the obstacles in the vehicle’s path.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:
An object of the present invention is to provide a system for provides free parking space in the vacant area and also helps to identify the obstacles in the vehicle’s path.
Another object of the present invention is to monitor car parking availability in car parks of all shapes and sizes.
Yet another object of the present invention is to look for a space, optimize billing and parking allocation, and allow vehicle owners to intelligently manage their own car parks.
Other objects and benefits of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description, which is not intended to bind the scope of the present invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
Accordingly, a system for vacant parking space using artificial intelligence is disclosed, The system comprising of; Database within the website for showing the available vacant space within a vehicle park area; Loading all the instructions on the graphical interface of the user for selecting desired parking lot; Fitting CCTV in the nearby vehicle parking for detecting the status of each parking space to keep the database attached with the website updated; and Updating the status of the vacant space taken up by the driver.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Fig 1 is the system for vacant parking space using artificial intelligence.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION WITH RESPECT TO DRAWINGS:
The present invention is a system for free parking space in the vacant area and also helps to identify the obstacles in the vehicle’s path. The present invention monitors car parking availability in car parks of all shapes and sizes. The present invention provides a space, optimize billing and parking allocation, and allow vehicle owners to intelligently manage their own car parks.
In one embodiment, Using sensors, vehicles record free parking spots through the city, sending this information to the cloud. This data is then displayed in real-time to drivers looking for parking, conveniently and quickly guiding them towards available spaces.
In another embodiment, artificial Intelligence makes it possible to identify obstacles in the vehicle’s path. The artificial intelligence equipped vehicles take the traffic volume into account to prevent congestion at a particular parking spot. It also factors in seasonality and patterns to predict if a parking spot will still be free upon the arrival of the drive.
In another embodiment, artificial Intelligence makes accurate calculations about whether a vehicle fits into a parking space and the right to complete the action. This way, vehicles are parked in spaces that humans may dismiss as too cramped.
In another embodiment, Artificial Intelligence in driver-less cars works a bit differently. Once the car drops a passenger at the desired location, it can take off on its own to locate a parking spot. This saves motorists a ton of time since the task of locating a parking spot is now handled by the vehicle, freeing them from having to manually locate a spot. With fewer cars moving around looking for parking spaces, millions of barrels of oil can be saved from going to waste.
This can lower emissions, reduce the environmental footprint, and make cities more liveable.
So efficient parking is achieved through artificial Intelligence parking which result in efficient utilization of parking spaces, improved utilization of underutilized lots, and time savings for motorists. When smart parking solutions are employed, all cars collect data on parking lots and transmit them to the cloud. This means motorists find parking exactly when they need it, wherever they need it.
The system can also filter a large number of characterizing features including vehicle type, color, whether it is a conventional taxi or a delivery truck, hour-by-hour utilization metrics, past trends, and historical data about cars that enter a lot. In terms of accuracy, the system performs better than pure image-based methods. The system is also comparable in performance with advanced commercial systems that rely on more expensive sensors.
The present invention guides databases within the website for any parking spaces vacancy within a car park area, upon entering the car park and within its area. Once informed of the availability of parking spaces vacancies within a parking area, databases are required to select the desired parking destination location aided by graphical instructions on the display monitor before taking their parking ticket. They are asked to select their desired destination level and is given the layout of the level together with the tenant of each respective parking lot. Graphical interface will be displayed to the user to ease the selection process. If users are indecisive and cannot make up their mind within a particular time say for example: 30 sec, the General option on the selection menu will be automatically chosen by the system and it will automatically assign and reserve an available vacant space for the users.
The database considers the entrance to the car park used by users and then the nearest vacancies to the building entrance from the location selected themselves by the users or selected by the system through the General option. Nearest vacancies to the building entrance is chosen by taking the assumption prefers shortest walking distance.
The assigned parking space number or parking number ID is reserved for the specific user and encoded in their parking ticket. The identification of this reserved parking space is updated in the database. The ID number is used for validation during the payment of the tenant’s duration of stay to calculate the parking fees. At the same time, map of the selected parking level together with the exact parking location is displayed on the user’s mobile screen and the ticket is printed out to assist the user in finding their parking space upon leaving. CCTV are fitted in the nearby vehicle parking are utilized in detecting the status of each parking space to keep the database attached with the website updated. CCTV also work in helping to detect the arrival of a car to its entitled parking space and changing the status of that particular parking slot from Reserved to Occupied. CCTV takes the image of the parked vehicle and thus database is updated based on vehicle occupancy.
In another embodiment, In the case of a user parking elsewhere other than their assigned space, the status of the vacant space taken up by the driver is updated to occupied as detected by the CCTVs.
If a car fail to arrive at their assigned parking space and cannot be detected at the assigned space after a grace period of 10 min, the ID number associated with the particular vacant space is automatically considered as void, which then the vacant space identified in reference to the ID number identification is deleted from the database and the vacant space is again taken into consideration for the next patron going to the same location.
In another embodiment, when the users are ready to leave, they are reminded of the location of their car as they make the payments at the payment machines available throughout the building according to the location encoded into the ticket. The payment machine verifies the ticket by checking the database to confirm its validity before accepting payments from the user. If the ticket identification is voided, the user is not able to make payment and exit the car park