Automation and IoT Based Vertical Car Parking System

This work successfully designed, fabricated and tested a working prototype of an Automation and IoT Based Vertical Car Parking System that automates parking and retrieval across two floors and six slots through the integration of stepper-driven vertical lift, DC-motor rotational platforms, RFID authentication, ultrasonic occupancy sensing, limit-switch safety and Blynk-based IoT monitoring. All twelve functional test cases passed, slot detection achieved 100% accuracy, and average parking/retrieval times of 18–26 seconds were recorded — demonstrating that a low-cost, readily reproducible prototype can validate the working principle of a vertical automated parking structure that is, in principle, scalable to full-size deployment. Future enhancements identified for this work include scaling to a full-size tower using industrial-grade servo motors and PLC control; integrating an automated fee-payment gateway (UPI / RFID wallet); adding a mobile app for remote slot reservation; incorporating CCTV with license-plate recognition for security; powering the control electronics via solar panels; extending the structure to 4–6 floors with 12–18 slots; adding voice announcements; and logging parking events to a cloud database such as Firebase or ThingSpeak for analytics.  

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