PARKING GARAGE AUTOMATION

Aparna Adiraju - 84193Prashanthi Gogineni - 82259Rakesh Reddy - 84808Avdesh Kumar - 84201Dimple Badiani - 81049Raghavendra - 84807

INTRODUCTION

• In this project we are trying to automate the parking system of a parking lot. We assume that there is a parking lot where still we have people who go over to keep a check of the empty spots or there are some sensors which keep a track of the total number of vacant or occupied spots.

CONCEPT DEFINITION

• Our aim it to go a step further and try to automate this process itself. We will try to create a system with which customers can reserve their parking spot online. With this system we can have various sections where if it is a already registered customer we have a separate section for them.

• The system would try to maximize the parking structure. Where we can manage the parking for a specific time to accommodate all the customers.

Metrics for automated parking system

Customer Experience - Reducing the time customers spend on parking.

a) The Gift of Time

b) 30 Seconds is the New Minute

Street Operations - Optimizing parking space utilization and revenue.

a) Optimizing Parking Management

b) Meter Operations

c)Manage Limited Neighborhood Parking.

Support and Analytics - Reducing cost by boosting productivity.

a) Productive Parking Programs

b) Manage On-Street Parking Congestion

c)Demand Management

Compliance - Creating flexibility of payments for maximizing collections.

a)Creating Compliance

b)Directed Enforcement

c)Parking Enforcement Officer Support

Functional Requirements• New customers will have to be able to register with automated park so

that they can make future reservations.

• If a registered customer wants to make a monthly contract he will be given a list of months to choose from. Based on the month he selects and the availability of spots the database will reserve a guaranteed spot for the user.

• Once the presence of a car in the lift is detected, the license plate reader has to read the plate number and check to see if a contract/reservation has been made with that number.

• If a reserved/contract customer’s plate number is not recognized the user will be asked to input his log in details and this will be used to access the user’s account and provide service accordingly.

• If an unregistered customer arrives to park in the garage he will be treated as a walk in customer.

• Once the system determines which floor to transport the car to, the elevator has to lift the car to that deck.

• Once a user leaves a spot the spot should become available immediately and not be unavailable till the car exits the garage.

• If an unregistered customer wants to leave the garage the operator(security guard) has to be notified. The operator has to help the customer pay his bill in order to be able to exit the garage.

• If a user extends the duration of reservation before the end of thereserved time period, the database should be checked to see theavailability of spots.

• If a reserved customer doesn’t arrive within the grace period thereservation has to be cancelled but the user will be charged for the fullreserved period.

• When a registered customer wants to make a reservation for aparticular time period then he’ll be given a list of dates and times to pick from.

• Once the presence of a car in the lift is detected, the license platereader has to read the plate number and check to see if acontract/reservation has been made with that number.

• If a reserved/contract customer’s plate number is not recognized the user will be asked to input his log in details and this will be used to access the user’s account and provide service accordingly.

• Once a user leaves a spot the spot should become available immediately and not be unavailable till the car exits the garage. The operator has to help the customer pay his bill in order to be able to exit the garage.

• If a reserved customer doesn’t arrive within the grace period thereservation has to be cancelled but the user will be charged for the fullreserved period.The exit gate has to open for registered customer once the licenseplate reader at the exit reads the plate number.

• The gate that leads to the ground floor should open to permit walk incustomers to enter the ground floor. This should be done after anavailable spot has been detected and the user agrees to the walk interms and conditions.

Non-Functional Requirements• Automated park should only permit authorized users to access/edit acustomer’s

profile. Customers should not be able to alter their amountowed in any way other than posting a payment.

• Only a valid email address and credit card number should be accepted.

• Only those customers with an account profile in good standing shouldbe allowed to make a reservation.

• A customer utilizing the elevator should have access to their floorwithin 3 minutes from the entry console.

• Automated park should incorporate self check features to getmalfunctioning hardware serviced/replaced to minimize any reductionof service.

USE CASE SUMMARY

USE CASE - PARKING

• This use case shows when the customer arrives at the gate and want to park.

• If the customer has already registered then the camera at the entrance will

read the registration number, check for the requirements for the registration

and bring the car to the assigned floor.

• If the customer is not registered the system will search for the vacant parking

spots, inform the customer and he can pay and reserve that spot before

parking.

CLASS DIAGRAM

STATE DIAGRAM

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM

DEPLOYMENT DIAGRAM

RISK ASSESSMENT :

There exists various types of riks that may arise while building a project.

Financial risk:The risks arising from the actions of transactions like vendors,customers and counterparties in derivative transactions

Environment Risk:Crime/location, Accedent/Health and Safety,Fire/disaster, depreciation.

Privacy and Information Risk:The collection,use,disclosure of personel information for research purposes that belongs to a group may be harmed.

Business Corporate Risk:Loss of income,loss of service/Dowtown, Reputation/History/Management risk,Insider fraud/Employee dishonesty,Loss of key staff.

Different ways for Identifying

• Analysis of system• feedback and

communication• scenario building• Audits• Brainstorming• SWOT analysis• Experience Judgement

Project Effort Estimation

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TESTING

The purpose of this Automated Parking Information System operational test is to determine the ability of the automated, real-time

parking information and guidance system to:

• Provide efficient and user-friendly access to parking at the garage.

• Improve management and utilization of the underutilized parking resources at the garage.

There are two types of testing

1. manual

2. automation

Manual testing is costly and time consuming, because every test case comprises building up a park scenario with real cars and

manual driving of each maneuver.

Furthermore, performing a test in this way is difficult to reproduce, because the details of the test execution vary. In contrast,

automated tests can perform a great number of test cases with less effort. Therefore automated functional tests performed in a

controlled simulation environment in addition to manual tests could form an important quality assurance measure.

Evolutionary functional testing provides a way to automate

functional tests as a complete process. Instead of selecting the test

cases manually, a search for interesting test cases is performed

automatically. This is done by translating the test case selection

into an optimization problem. This requires the solution of two

problems. First, how to generate the test data and second how to

evaluate the test result

• ACCEPTANCE TEST CASES: Log in - test passes if correct email and password is enteredVehicle Check - test passes if the license plate matches with the reservation detailsRegistration - test passes if user enters a valid email id and other details for creating account

FUTURE WORK

• For further modifying the system few of the following can be done.

• Advertising for online reservations where information about the surroundings near the parking

lot can be given to the customer and the garage owner can sell the advertising space to the

merchants by promise to notify the customers of their deals and offers.

• Integration of multiple parking lots can be done where the information can be shared by the

administrator to facilitate the parking and convenient for the customer.

• Use of new and advanced sensors to track the vehicles.

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